Bug 14027 - Please add IceWM in ALL the installation media.
Summary: Please add IceWM in ALL the installation media.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Release (media or process) (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: ISO building group
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Reported: 2014-09-01 15:34 CEST by nikos papadopoulos
Modified: 2017-03-08 21:09 CET (History)
6 users (show)

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Description nikos papadopoulos 2014-09-01 15:34:59 CEST
Description of problem:
Please, add Icewm in ALL the installation media.
Because, as I had said, back in Mandriva,
"when everything else fails, IceWM works!"

For example, in Mageia 5, Alpha 2, KDE, 32bit, Live DVD,
there is a major graphic problem, in my system.
Is it because of KDE?
A lack of RAM or graphic card memory?
Or a graphic driver problem?

You could easily narrow it down, 
if there was IceWM available in the Live media.
You would simple log out, and then log in with IceWM.


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Comment 1 David Walser 2014-09-01 15:58:42 CEST
It is intended to be on there.  CC'ing the ISO creators.

CC: (none) => ennael1, tmb

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2014-09-01 21:12:06 CEST
IIRC there were some unresolved issues with it, wich is why it's not on the isos...

Will try to add again on mga5 beta
Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2014-09-01 21:41:13 CEST
(In reply to Thomas Backlund from comment #2)
> IIRC there were some unresolved issues with it, wich is why it's not on the
> isos...
> 
> Will try to add again on mga5 beta

yep and not so user friendly ("why is this here ? I don't need it")
furthermore, released iso should works
Comment 4 David Walser 2014-09-02 00:34:28 CEST
What issues?  And IceWM is plenty user-friendly :P
Comment 5 nikos papadopoulos 2014-09-02 14:37:08 CEST
(In reply to Manuel Hiebel from comment #3)
> I don't need it")
There's a ton of software that I might think that I don't need them.

> furthermore, released iso should works
So far, for my main computer, neither Kde or Gnome Live iso's are working.
Should we ditch them both?

And for my second computer none of the latest 5-6 kernels is working.
Should I quit Mageia, or even linux altogether?
Comment 6 Georges Eckenschwiller 2014-09-06 21:04:49 CEST
I would like to clarify that IceWM-light occupies little disk space and that he is INDISPENSABLE for a minimal installation

CC: (none) => paiiou

David Walser 2014-10-22 23:07:21 CEST

Depends on: (none) => 12702

David Walser 2014-11-14 23:07:58 CET

Depends on: 12702 => (none)

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2016-10-16 15:59:14 CEST
I don't see icewm here ftp://mageia.webconquest.com/iso/cauldron/Mageia-6-sta1-LiveDVD-PLASMA5-i586-DVD/Mageia-6-sta1-LiveDVD-PLASMA5-i586-DVD.lst

So it looks like this bug is still valid for the Live isos.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => isobuild

Comment 8 Martin Whitaker 2016-12-05 20:59:17 CET
IceWM is not being included on the Live DVDs because it depends on mate-polkit, which is in the list of excluded packages. The comment about mate-polkit just says "not wanted", so it may not be a problem to include it. I've tried building a GNOME Live DVD with it, and there were no immediately obvious issues. So we can give this a try unless Thomas remembers another reason for excluding mate-polkit.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 9 Mageia Robot 2016-12-08 20:11:50 CET
commit 1e48ae643596c1084e1c9d6e124807dcd11f2439
Author: Martin Whitaker <mageia@...>
Date:   Tue Dec 6 22:12:00 2016 +0000

    auto_inst.cfg.pl: don't skip mate-polkit - that deselects IceWM (mga#14027).
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 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/build-system/draklive-config/commit/?id=1e48ae643596c1084e1c9d6e124807dcd11f2439
Comment 10 Martin Whitaker 2017-03-08 21:09:55 CET
IceWM is on all the 6-sta2 ISOs, so I think we can close this now.

Note that the version included on the ISOs does not include support for the IceWM panel, but that has been rectified in cauldron.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED


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