[lubuntu-devel] lubuntu 32-bit 18.10

[Walter Lapchynski]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 08:28:04PM +0100, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> *During install:-** When setting Region: Europe, Zone:London, the entry
> "UnitedKingdom" needs a space in it.

This is actually a bit of a Qt bug that doesn't have a perfectly easy
resolution, though there is a [patch][1] in Calamares that uses e.g.
QLocale::nativeCountryName rather than QLocale::countryToString.

> * When using partitioner, the "Edit Existing Partition" was unusable until
> maximised.

Are you saying the UI was not fully displayed? What resolution were you
using?

> * One of the progress messages reads "Starts procedure and passes
> 'fw_type'" (didn't catch all of the message). Do you really think the end
> users should be seeing this?

It's not the most user friendy string, but it seems to be what Calamares
set. It's not the only one that's not particularly friendly, but each
module of the installer has a `run()` function with a docstring that is
displayed in the UI. A sensible one can be found in the [hwclock
module][2]. I think that in the case of the [bootloader module][3], the
docstring is describing just what that part of the module is doing
rather than what the whole module is doing. Seems like it could use a
little clean up.

> *Normal use, after install:-** Using LO Writer, I pressed F1 for help and
> got the message "LibreOffice builtin help for current UI language
> (English(USA)) is not installed on your system" and this is wrong because I
> told the installer to use British English.

Strangely, LibreOffice seems to require that you install it yourself.
Even for English, you need libreoffice-help-en-us. We're going to add
this, but will need to figure out something custom in the future.
Additionally for non-en_US locales, there are libreoffice-l10n- packages
that will probably want to be installed. We don't want to put them ALL
on the installation media because that would be ridiculous.

> * Games. Is there anything besides 2048-Qt that can go in here? At least a
> meta-package of games that don't drag in a huge swathe of dependencies.

There's no meta-package, but if you have some Qt-based games you'd like
to suggest, feel free.

> * Installing emacs in bash "sudo apt install emacs" worked but the prompt
> "Do you want to continue? [Y/n]" does not appear until you press a key - I
> used SHIFT (this could be because it does not have a newline in it).

Can't reproduce. My guess is that this is something to do with the
resolution you were using.


[1]: https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/712
[2]:
https://github.com/calamares/calamares/blob/743c19d8dd58bc7e7ee26b3fca769318d254d172/src/modules/hwclock/main.py#L28
[3]:
https://github.com/calamares/calamares/blob/743c19d8dd58bc7e7ee26b3fca769318d254d172/src/modules/bootloader/main.py#L396

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