Window Maker Live Files

### Window Maker Live (2012-03-18)

Another intensive week has passed, and the time has become ripe for
yet another update of Window Maker Live. Once you are able to read
these few lines, the upload of wmlive-debian release 2012-03-18 to the
Sourceforge download location will have already finished.

As usual, ISO images for both amd64 and i386 are now available from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmlive/files for immediate download.

What are the most remarkable feature enhancements for this release?

# Desktop related changes:

* In addition to standard international English, support also for
  French, German, Portuguese and Spanish has been added. You can now
  install an (almost) fully localized system with these languages.
  Nonetheless, both Firefox and Thunderbird are provided only in
  English language version, and you are required to download and
  install localized versions yourself, if the need arises.

* The roxterm-gtk2 terminal emulator fully replaces gnome-terminal as
  the default terminal program, as it supports all the features which
  were formerly thought to be only covered by gnome-terminal. As both
  are not needed anymore, gnome-terminal and also xfce4-terminal have
  been completely removed.

* ROX filer is now provided as an additional file manager option and
  replaces thunar as the default file manager application available in
  the dock's first logo icon for left mouse button clicks. As before,
  middle mouse click still launches WPrefs.  While thunar had to cede
  its entry in the main dock icon to rox-filer, it will stay installed
  and available as an alternative file management tool.

* The preferences backup facility has been reorganized. During the
  first time ever login, a backup of the current default configuration
  is created. And whenever the user performs a restore of any former
  preferences setting, the restore script automatically creates a
  backup of the current settings prior to actually performing the
  restoration process.

* Added the Audacity audio editor, the handbrake-gtk video encoder,
  and the mirage image viewer, which replaces ristretto.

* Added the pyhoca-gui x2go client packages to default install,
  replacing the formerly installed binary only NX packages.

# Under the hood:

* Reworked the wmlive-debian-install script, in order to inform the
  user how to handle a failing start up of the installer, and added a
  reboot option after successful installation to disk. This should
  help to make the installation much more straight forward.

* Added the debian-multimedia.org and the x2go repositories as
  additional apt sources options.

* Packaged wmlaptop2 as proper Debian package, which is now directly
  installed into the live system squashfs image without any further
  complaints by apt.

* The formerly not very well working apt-pinning configuration was
  completely overhauled and now fully works as intended. So no more
  unexpected dependency related installation disruptions should occur
  when updating the system from the official Debian package sources.

# Known issues:

* The VLC video player does not work in the live CD environment,
  claiming that it can't find it's plugins, but works normally once
  the system has been installed to disk.

* The installation still requires to run an additional script in order
  to successfully complete.

There have been many more changes and enhancements, but which are far
too numerous and small to merit any special mention of each. For more
detailed changes information, please consult the ChangeLog file, which
is also available separately in the Window Maker Live download area on
Sourceforge.

Unless any further showstopper rears its ugly head, i guess we have
more or less arrived at some kind of a stable status. While work will
go on, albeit at a slower pace, a newer release can only be expected
when some major change or important bug fix requires an update.

As this distribution intends to stay as close as possible to the
upstream Window Maker development releases, a next ISO update will
probably only be provided once a new official Window Maker version has
been released.

Enjoy installing and using Window Maker Live!

Best regards,

Paul Seelig

-- 
Paul Seelig <wmlive@users.sf.net>
http://wmlive.sourceforge.net