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Re: MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 4:18 pm
by chrispop99
Stevo wrote:chrispop99 wrote: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
Re: MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 4:22 pm
by 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
Re: MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 4:41 pm
by Stevo
chrispop99 wrote:Stevo wrote:chrispop99 wrote: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.
Re: MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 4:44 pm
by mx65
another very good alternative is Selene, but it is not in the repositories or in MX PackageInstaller
Re: MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 4:48 pm
by Stevo
skidoo wrote: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.

Re: MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:18 pm
by 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?
Re: MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 6:36 pm
by dr-kart
Repo manager. When I "Select fastest Debian repo for me" it doesn't change security and backports repos. Right? and Why? Thanks.
Re: MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 8:47 pm
by Paul..
Stevo wrote:chrispop99 wrote:Stevo wrote:
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.
Re: MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 9:54 pm
by timkb4cq
skidoo wrote:Timkb4cq wrote: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.
Re: MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 4:49 am
by richb
It does look much better.