MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback

[chrispop99]

Arista Multimedia Transcoder does not install from MXPI.

Chris

No doubt that is because it's not in any of the repos. I'll see if we can add it. But Ubuntu also dropped it after 14.04, so there may be something wrong with it.

It also seems to have not been updated for some years, so maybe remove it?

Chris

[skidoo]

mentioning because audacity seems to me like a high-profile {didn't check popcon stats} application

Installed via MX PackageInstaller, no audacity entry appears in the XFCE menu. (tested: same result if installed via synaptic)
a .desktop file is installed, an associated imagefile icon is installed, and MenuEditor recognizes the category assignments
...so, it's a headscratcher

[Stevo]

Arista Multimedia Transcoder does not install from MXPI.

Chris

No doubt that is because it's not in any of the repos. I'll see if we can add it. But Ubuntu also dropped it after 14.04, so there may be something wrong with it.

It also seems to have not been updated for some years, so maybe remove it?

Chris

Yes, it requires gstreamer-0.10, which isn't in Debian Stretch, so it needs to be removed. Perhaps to be replaced with qwinff, if I can port that up to MX 17.

[mx65]

another very good alternative is Selene, but it is not in the repositories or in MX PackageInstaller

[Stevo]

mentioning because audacity seems to me like a high-profile {didn't check popcon stats} application

Installed via MX PackageInstaller, no audacity entry appears in the XFCE menu. (tested: same result if installed via synaptic)
a .desktop file is installed, an associated imagefile icon is installed, and MenuEditor recognizes the category assignments
...so, it's a headscratcher

It appears in the menu on my installed 64-bit b3.

[entropyfoe]

skidoo, I installed audacity with synaptic.

I have an entry for audacity under the multimedia sub menu.
You were looking in the multimedia tab?

[dr-kart]

Repo manager. When I "Select fastest Debian repo for me" it doesn't change security and backports repos. Right? and Why? Thanks.

[Paul..]

No doubt that is because it's not in any of the repos. I'll see if we can add it. But Ubuntu also dropped it after 14.04, so there may be something wrong with it.

It also seems to have not been updated for some years, so maybe remove it?

Chris

Yes, it requires gstreamer-0.10, which isn't in Debian Stretch, so it needs to be removed. Perhaps to be replaced with qwinff, if I can port that up to MX 17.

I will remove Arista from MXPI.

[timkb4cq]

hard-coded in src/polkitgnomeauthenticationdialog.c
It's probably not a package I should try to modify and rebuild

Please do (and post to xfce.org to announce its availability)
It's a several-years-long outstanding bug, and affects all of debian downstream XFCE, Cinnamon, and Unity...

OK, you talked me into it. policykit-1-gnome_0.105-6mx17 is now available in the Testing repository. The suggested patch wasn't quite correct but was very helpful (I really don't know gtk and am not very good at C). In any case it was only 2 lines changed in the dialog window settings so it shouldn't affect anything else.

It looks better here, but I'd like some people to test it (maybe with different locales) before announcing it to XFCE.
It takes a logout/login to take effect.

[richb]

It does look much better.