| tsimonq2 | arraybolt3: You still around? | 02:04 |
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| tsimonq2 | The Lubuntu Installer Prompt not only has a language selection menu now, it has a WiFi selection box so when Cala starts up it has a connection right away. | 02:16 |
| tsimonq2 | All of the UI is implemented, the code is still Very Buggy. | 02:16 |
| tsimonq2 | It's also all ported back to Qt 5, which actually was useful because I'm using some Frameworks. | 02:16 |
| tsimonq2 | I'll be taking a small break, then back at it. | 02:16 |
| tsimonq2 | My goal tonight is to get a new installer-prompt tagged, built, and in the archive. | 02:17 |
| tsimonq2 | arraybolt3: Thanks for your starter work in cleaning some stuff up! | 02:17 |
| tsimonq2 | What is c.archive.ubuntu.com - does anyone know? | 02:54 |
| tsimonq2 | Is that finally a CDN source for the Ubuntu archive? That would be spectacular. | 02:54 |
| tsimonq2 | New Featherpad in Noble. | 03:05 |
| tsimonq2 | https://git.lubuntu.me/Lubuntu/installer-prompt/commit/5e616be3a4ca9705309014d1dc9853adab5dab87 | 04:25 |
| -ubottu:#lubuntu-devel- Commit 5e616be in Lubuntu/installer-prompt "Add Language and WiFi dropdown boxes, plus, update the background image - builds but doesn't run" | 04:25 | |
| tsimonq2 | 5 files changed, 500 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) | 04:25 |
| tsimonq2 | :P | 04:25 |
| tsimonq2 | I mean, in all honesty... | 04:25 |
| tsimonq2 | CMakeLists.txt | 7 ++- | 04:25 |
| tsimonq2 | img/background.png | Bin 3459451 -> 2033068 bytes | 04:25 |
| tsimonq2 | src/installerprompt.cpp | 170 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ | 04:25 |
| tsimonq2 | src/installerprompt.h | 34 +++++++++++--- | 04:25 |
| tsimonq2 | src/installerprompt.ui | 341 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- | 04:26 |
| tsimonq2 | And I used Qt Creator, so there's that. :P | 04:26 |
| tsimonq2 | My brain hurts, looks like I got it to build but it segfaults. Le sigh. :P | 04:28 |
| tsimonq2 | I'll pick up tomorrow. | 04:28 |
| * tsimonq2 EOD o/ | 04:28 | |
| tsimonq2 | Before I left, I pushed those translations to Backports Staging, and migrated Featherpad from Backports Staging to Backports. | 04:37 |
| tsimonq2 | Will do a quick tweet then leave For Real this time. | 04:37 |
| lubot | [telegram] <Leokolb> Testing today's daily with WiFi connection https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calamares/+bug/2045474 | 18:06 |
| -ubottu:#lubuntu-devel- Launchpad bug 2045474 in calamares (Ubuntu) "Installer makes attempt to connect to WiFi connection" [Undecided, New] | 18:06 | |
| lubot | [telegram] <tsimonq2> https://matterbridge.lubuntu.me/11b27422/file_10180.jpg | 19:39 |
| lubot | [telegram] <tsimonq2> Prototype ^^^^^^^^^^ | 19:39 |
| lubot | [telegram] <tsimonq2> I suck at design XD | 19:40 |
| lubot | [telegram] <tsimonq2> How does it look? | 19:40 |
| lubot | [telegram] <kc2bez> It looks great. Don't sell yourself short. | 19:41 |
| lubot | [telegram] <tsimonq2> Heh, thanks | 19:41 |
| lubot | [telegram] <tsimonq2> I'm more posting so I can get appropriate constructive criticism ;) | 19:42 |
| lubot | [telegram] <tsimonq2> Next is the backend for both the WiFi stuff and the language stuff | 19:42 |
| tsimonq2 | The language box should do the following: | 19:42 |
| tsimonq2 | - Connect the change signal to a backend function handling it. | 19:43 |
| tsimonq2 | - This backend function should install language-pack-gnome-$LANG and language-pack-kde-$LANG if there's internet, otherwise LXQt has a few that we already ship by default. | 19:43 |
| tsimonq2 | - Then, locale-gen/whatever system-wide localization update is ran. | 19:44 |
| tsimonq2 | - Restart the SDDM service to get everything re-translated. | 19:44 |
| tsimonq2 | Let's be fair here: to do it the "quick and dirty" way means like 10 lines of code. :P | 19:44 |
| tsimonq2 | As for WiFi, it' | 19:44 |
| tsimonq2 | s dead-simple... | 19:45 |
| tsimonq2 | Using NetworkManagerQt, simply see if there's a WiFi adapter and if it's already connected to something. If it isn't, show that dropdown box, allow the user to select one, enter a password in the box (with retry support), and it should show as connected. | 19:46 |
| tsimonq2 | This should use some system-level Network Manager commands to add that connection and actually do the thing with it. | 19:46 |
| lubot | [telegram] <kc2bez> That sounds functionally perfect | 19:46 |
| tsimonq2 | Now, for more advanced connections, I'm just flat-out not going to support it. The only reason we have this in the first place is for "ease of use" on the usual WiFi connections - if they need something more advanced, they can hit Try Lubuntu and configure it there. | 19:47 |
| lubot | [telegram] <kc2bez> I agree and support that decision | 19:47 |
| lubot | [telegram] <tsimonq2> Grabbing some lunch then finishing the backend | 20:00 |
| arraybolt3 | tsimonq2: wow, I love what you did to the prompt | 23:01 |
| arraybolt3 | tsimonq2: The language box downloads the translations "on the fly"? Depending on the speed of one's Internet connection, that could be painfully painfully painfully slow. | 23:28 |
| arraybolt3 | I think it might be better to seed all of them into the apt pool on the ISO itself (or at least the twenty most common ones, perhaps?). I don't know how exactly to do that, but it should be possible, right? | 23:29 |
| arraybolt3 | Then they won't all be installed by default and the prompt can install the requested one on the fly without having to download it. | 23:30 |
| tsimonq2 | arraybolt3: Hey thanks :) | 23:34 |
| tsimonq2 | arraybolt3: Seems like a lot of wasted space, no? | 23:35 |
| tsimonq2 | arraybolt3: Anyway, my goal was to have a progress bar there, so they can at least see what's up. | 23:35 |
| arraybolt3 | one sec, have to step away | 23:35 |
| tsimonq2 | I have the list of languages rendering properly, that's all pushed, I'm just working on state quirkiness with internet connectivity. | 23:35 |
| tsimonq2 | No worries. | 23:35 |
| arraybolt3 | tsimonq2: There's a few problems with making the user have to download languages. For one, we have no guarantee that the user even *has* Internet when they install Lubuntu. Some of our users probably don't have reliable Internet service in their home (source: I was one of those users). They may not have Internet service at all. Even the users who | 23:50 |
| arraybolt3 | do have Internet service may be installing on a machine with no working network hardware, or (more likely) with network hardware that requires proprietary drivers that aren't installed yet. | 23:50 |
| arraybolt3 | For two, it will make the live session slower to get started for many of our non-English-speaking users, which is a problem since they're statistically more likely to be in locations where Internet service is spotty, slow, or nonexistant. | 23:51 |
| arraybolt3 | For three, I don't really see it as wasted ISO space - it's true that for any one user, most of the languages will be unnecessary, but for all of our users as a whole, most if not all of the languages are necessary. It's a tradeoff - I don't think we need languages like Ancient Egyptian installed by default (though hieroglyphs in the live session | 23:53 |
| arraybolt3 | would be cool I suppose), but only just having English is probably not good enough. There's a middle ground I would think. | 23:53 |
| arraybolt3 | Maybe the middle ground LXQt has by default is enough, I dunno. I guess it has quite a few languages. | 23:56 |
| arraybolt3 | btw the encrypted-installation-fixing Cala patch got merged upstream :D | 23:59 |
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