[Trisquel-devel] New Trisquel 8 development images

[Pablo Correa Gómez]

I have been testing both the Spanish and the Swedish translations,
gnome-app-install, onboard keyboard as well as the screen magnifier.
Mostly everything went well, many things got fixed compared to the
image before and there were little outstanding bugs:

 -The most important one is that when installing support for swedish
through System->Preferences->Personal->"Languages support", Abrowser
locale didn't get installed, so I had to install it with the terminal
for Abrowser to be in Swedish. I didn't have the same behaviour with
Spanish, but I installed the virtual machine in Spanish instead of
installing it in English and then installing Spanish support with the
method above mentioned. I also installed German support the same way as
Swedish and again, the german locale for Abrowser didn't get installed,
so it is probably a bug in that feature.

 -gnome-app-install works on the newer image while it doesn't in the
old one that I am writing from. However, I still get the warnings and
errors attached when running it from the command line and moving around
and installing some programs. It looks like both canberra-gtk-module
and topmenu-gtk-module are dependencies for the program but are not
listed in the metadata. Installing them by hand didn't fix any of the
other erros.

 -In the main menu there are still some things lacking translation to
both Spanish and Swedish and are showed in English:
     --Accessories->Onboard. In addition, it showed the Spanish
keyboard (which is the one I have in my laptop, maybe it can detect the
layout?) instead of the Swedish one. Same behaviour was achieved after
installing German, it would still show the Spanish layout.
     --Accessories->"Screen Magnifier"
     --Accessories->"Pluma Text Editor"
     --System->Help. However, the help was perfectly available in
Spanish and Swedish.
     --System->Preferences->"Look and feel"->Mate tweak. It has
probably been commented before and there is a bug issued, but it is
still impossible to go back to the default Trisquel appearance once it
is modified, as it isn't listed as a template.

 -In the control center everything under Administration is only in
English but Add/Remove Applications, that has a Spanish translation but
not a Swedish translation.

 -In the main menu, the following items where lacking translation to
Swedish, so there were in Spanish (second chosen language) while not to
Spanish and German:
     --System->Preferences->Others->"IBus Preferences"
     --Places->Computer,Network,"MATE Search Tool"


 -The screen magnifier works as it says in the man page. However, the
funcionality is quite odd, as everytime you stop holding the mouse left
button outside its window, it stops following the mouse. I have never
used a screen magnifier before, but it doesn't look like an ideal
situation. However, it looks like it is not something easy to fix, so I
hope I'm wrong.

I also tested VPN connections as well as the ath9k firmware and it
worked out of the box. In the following days I will try the cdrom read-
write functionality. 

Cheers,
Pablo.

On dom, 2017-12-24 at 00:26 -0500, Rubén Rodríguez wrote:
>vThe new images are available in the usual place:
> http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/
> 
> Following up discussion on the previous "Freedom Friday" meetings,
> I've
> wrapped up the needed updates to the trisquel-meta package:
> https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/trisquel-packages/commit/766eaf2
> 420175fa08cd8151ae2eb8c6e3d9b5757
> https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/trisquel-packages/commit/fa12528
> 5f2e04a3d4440527ddb14b88ce08546a1
> 
> As a result the iso build script now uses metapackages to do package
> selection, instead of a hardcoded package list. This was a long
> back-and-forth process to move all features from the GNOME-fallback
> desktop packages to the Mate ones. A lot of cleaning is still needed
> for
> the LXDE, Sugar, GNOME and KDE metapackages.
> 
> Other tasks included updates to the trisquel-desktop-common-data
> package, screensaver, boot splash, free-firmware, and gnome-app-
> install,
> along with the makeiso script itseta. Hlf.
> 
> ## Testing
> 
> Please test as many features in the images as possible, and report
> all
> outstanding bugs as replies in this thread. Given the amount of
> changes
> done, pay special attention to:
> 
>  * Internationalization: try different languages if you know them
> enough, look for untranslated applications. If you can, check that
> fonts
> for non-latin scripts work correctly. Test the international keyboard
> input system.
>  * Accessibility: test that the screen reader and other accessibility
> features work as expected.
>  * Devices: try printers, cd read/write, bluetooth, cameras, and any
> other common devices you may have around.
> 
> Note that as discussed in development meetings, the intention is to
> release Trisquel 8 soon as possible and move the development effort
> to 9
> (to be based on Ubuntu 18.04), so small annoyances will not be
> considered blockers (but all the described systems need to be
> usable).
> 
> ## Pending work
> 
> The main items still needing work in order to finish the release are:
> 
>  * Testing/QA
>  * FSDG issues listed in merge requests, and other MR review/approval
>  * Deployment and testing of the upgrade system, for Trisquel 7 users
>  * Artwork
> 
> My next focus will be to clear up the merge request queue.
> 
> I'll be taking a 3 week break starting this weekend, so I'll not be
> available for the Freedom Friday meetings. It should be a good time
> for
> a final round of testing.
> 
> Happy testing and holidays!
> 
> Ruben
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