Hi everyone, I am just sending an update to let you know about my progress here. I have been spending a lot of time trying to get the settings manager closer to being finished enough for our final release.
Here are the most notable things I have done/am working on. Huge code refactoring to make common functions use a base function for easy maintenance. Almost everything has been refactored to be ready for multiple panel support. Begun working on successful multiple panel editing, though there are a few UI issues I need to address. Created a configuration file for the program which keeps track of the current panel. getting ready to add more items to the configuration, such as the default clock/calendar app. I haven't commited the changes yet, as there are still some instability issues, but I am getting very close to having this program ready for the release or ToriOS 1.0. I would like to implement a few more things, but my goal is to have full functionality before ToriOS 1.0, though there are some things I will leave in their not-perfect-but-perfectly-usable state, such as the font chooser, and keyboard shortcut manager. Those are usable and stable, but not quite to the caliber of use that I ultimately want. I would like the font chooser to be alphabetized and show previews of the actual font, but this is much easier than editing an xml file by hand :) And I would like the keyboard setup utility to have a 'key grabber' where you simply press keys and it knows what you press and assign that as the shortcut, but still the current form works and is easier/less dangerous than hand editing XML. Basically I want to be able to fully edit multiple panels and configure them easily. This is the main goal I have before we can release the full ToriOS 1.0 , though Beta can be usable without multpile panel support (our default setup is only one panel), I personally always use multiple panels in all DE I use, so it is a feature I know others will require. That about sums up this week's work... just a lot of programming. Oh, I also have a fairly stable sdesk and I updated it with a man page, and have tested it a little, but not enough to know whether we can use sdesk and a script to replace a network monitoring program. -- Regards -Israel ToriOS Team -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
