A Control Panel

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Re: A Control Panel

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Looking good!

Gparted fails to see the hard disk (works fine when called from system menu)

I'll be interested to see how the panel behaves under xmonad :geek:

EDIT Amazingly, it works! the category icons don't appear, but never mind. However, I can only run it as root. I installed as root, but I think that's what I did on the 13.1 machine as well. Maybe it only runs as root there too - after all, if you call it from the menu rather than the console, it requests the root password. So that's probably normal.
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Re: A Control Panel

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@ djemos, oh thanks for testing in KDE !
Do the applications run correctly when launched from the panel?

@ mimosa,
I did notice that as well. It probably needs to be executed in a different way, I'll look into this. Tx for reporting.
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Re: A Control Panel

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Akuna, all apps run correctly.
Only manage printing dont run and i dont have sourcery installed on salix-kde-13.1.2
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djemos wrote:Akuna, all apps run correctly.
Only manage printing dont run and i dont have sourcery installed on salix-kde-13.1.2
Oops, Cups doesn't work here too, thanks for catching it.
Do you have any error messages about Sourcery or it just doesn't show up ? (which is the expected behavior)
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Akuna wrote: Do you have any error messages about Sourcery or it just doesn't show up ? (which is the expected behavior)
I installed sourcery from svn after compile it.
But when i run setupcenter.py i get a message about sourcery icon does not included in theme?
Then i installed gtk-engines, gnome-icon,murrine-engines-system-printer-config and setupcenter.py run fine and also sourcery run through setupcenter. (control panel)

Then i removed all packages i had installed (system-printer-config, gtk-engines etc)
And tried to run again (kdesu /usr/sbin/setupcenter.py) and :) run fine and sourcery run also.
Only manage printing dont run.
salix-control-center run fine from the kde menus also.

I dont understand why did not run at once. Maybe packages i had installed even i removed them after, left something behind need by sourcery or salix-control-center ?
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I'm not sure either, but one thing that seems recurrent is a missing icon problem... I'll try to find a better solution to handle this.
Thanks for the feedback.
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I have been able to resume work on setupcenter lately.

gparted, cups, etc, work fine now. Missing default icons or utilities should be handled as well.

I also added a new configuration section for category settings in the preferences dialog box:
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I basically need to complete that part and allow multiple instance of program executions and we should be done.
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Looks great !!
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Re: A Control Panel

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New packages for testing:
http://people.salixos.org/akuna/testing ... h-1plb.txz

Still left to do:
- Category Icon selection in preferences.
- Multi-tasking

Will come back to it after LiveClone is upgraded to SaLT.

In the meanwhile, thanks for your testing reports.
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Akuna wrote:New packages for testing:
http://people.salixos.org/akuna/testing ... h-1plb.txz

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root[Downloads]# setupcenter.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/setupcenter.py", line 698, in <module>
    SetupCenter()
  File "/usr/sbin/setupcenter.py", line 197, in __init__
    self.AboutImage.set_from_icon_name(pref.icon_name, pref.about_icon_size)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'icon_name
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