@Didier Spaier
I've just installed fotoxx and it looks like a very good photo processor, but I think shotwell is a better photo album manager for import and storage of photos.

samac

I've tested Shotwell, and I hated its way to reorganize my Pictures as it thinks is best, without asking me. I completely messed up my image collection. GThumb seemed like the lesser evil.

One last issue.

My memory usage at start up is around 640mb and is 882mb at the moment and climbing. I'm only running firefox and system monitor. So I suspect a memory leak.

What is the normal memory usage of mate/firefox/system monitor?

How do I track down the leak?

samac

I'm using MATE 1.8.1 running Firefox 24.5 ESR (2 or 3 tabs opened), audacious playing some music, Thunderbird, MATE terminal and system monitor since about 1 hour. System monitor reports 545Mb used out of 3.7Gb. I didn't pay too much attention but I may have started at around 500Mb.

When I closed Firefox, memory usage went back to 326Mb. After restarting Firefox, it's 480Mb. Now is time to go to bed

MLED info pages have been updated to reflect all the recent changes.

Project presentation: http://www.microlinux.fr/mled.php

Installation guide: http://www.microlinux.fr/mled_installation.php

FAQ: http://www.microlinux.fr/mled_faq.php

The french section of the site will follow shortly.

Cheers,

Niki

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I just moved to MLED-MATE and found that /etc/profile.d/lang.sh gets overwritten during the transition. That's why GDM (and the whole desktop environment) appeared in French.

I have *moved* the user .config folder and then copied back some of the configuration settings used by applications I need.

Here are some initial observations:

0) Some application icons are missing from the "Applications" menu:

- "Accessories": "Archive Manager", "Take Noes";

- "Graphics": "Color Chooser", "Image Viewer";

- "Internet": "Bittorrent Client", "Electronic Mail", "Internet Messenger";

- "Office": "Document Viewer";

- "Sound and Video": "SMPlayer", "Video Editor".


1) the "Preferred Applications" menu does not allow one to select a mail reader;

2) the "Video Player" option is set to "Enqueue in SMPlayer" (with an icon), while the next choice -- "SMPlayer" -- is without an icon;

3) a volume control is missing.

Everything is running fine for now... Later I'll create a fresh account and will report back if I find more problems.

Nice job!

This is explained in detail in the step by step MLED Installation Guide. Take a peek near the bottom of the document, in the "Set Locales" section.

Try to do the following:

1. Create a dummy user using adduser.
2. Run the cleanmenu.sh script in the MLED-$VERSION-$ARCH/tools subdirectory.
3. Log out, then log in as your new user.
4. Check if the menus are still incomplete.

I just was surprised that it wasn't mentioned in README-MATE.txt that lang.sh needs to be updated.

For what it's worth: galculator-is-coming-to-mate/

I believe that MLED user base includes academics and research labs. So maybe it's worth to keep galculator in MLED.

For my part, I kept galculator (from SBo) and didn't install mate-calculator. It's not that I'm using RPN every day but it seems to be a very good tool.

BTW, is there an easy way to "conserve" a XFCE-MLED install by only performing critical updates (i.e. from "patches")?

It will be part of mate 1.10 release, but of course you can build it from SBo or from msb master branch

Ah, I got it -- creating a pristine user account enables all the MLED customizations. Removing ~/.config enables a default MATE configuration (*not* to be confused with the MLED-MATE *custom* configuration), therefore my previous notes about the menu do not apply to MLED-MATE itself.

In a moment I'll report from a clean user account that has all the bells and whistles from MATE-MLED ;-)

I believe it's not MATE's fault since we or upstream do not overwrite those files