Refracta Development, Scripts, etc.
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golinux

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## Liking refracta

Sun Nov 11, 2012 4:15 am

I have been distro shopping for an alternative to gnome3 for the past few weeks. Tried SalineOS. Some good apps there but a little too fancy and GUIish for me. Gave Mate a spin. I am so over gnome. Tried straight Debian but it is so bloated with stuff I never use. Did a base install of Debian and built it up from scratch. That gets closer but is a lot of work! Refracta is the best of both worlds - a few apps (not all of which I like) but on the whole a very basic install and it's been pretty solid.
Thank heavens there's no Libreoffice bloat! I did install the Libreoffice Writer because Abiword wasn't behaving nicely. It tears during scrolling even with the nvidia driver and no mouse wheel scroll so a little awkward. I don't understand why Brassero. I much prefer xfburn.
gftp, synaptic, gdebi and other useful tools are up and running. And I like that bug reports are provided when installing. But there was no suspend/hibernation or lightdm - had to get that going on my own.
I haven't played with refractasnapshot yet but I think that will be really useful.
Unless I run across something unexpected, it looks likely that I'll be setting things up with refracta when wheezy goes stable. Thanks for making my life a bit easier.
fsmithred

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## Re: Liking refracta

Sun Nov 11, 2012 12:52 pm

Glad you like it, but what's not to like about it? Refracta IS Debian. The installation bug reports are a debian thing. I think they'll go away when Testing moves to Stable. Or maybe just the bugs go away.
Brasero does something that xfburn does not. Pretty sure that's the ability to create an image on disk and retain the file. Users and other refracta devs requested brasero instead of xfburn, so I went with it. It shares some dependencies with gthumb, and adding both did not put the image size over 700mb.
The display manager (lightdm) will be turned on in the next beta, which will probably be ready soon. There have been a lot of updates since I made beta1 image.
golinux

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## Re: Liking refracta

Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:22 pm

Here's another suggestion. Don't know whether this is possible but .. . It would be nice on first boot after the install to have the option of no, empty or default panel (like when a new user is set up). I always end up deleting entries and having to move them around so I'd just as soon build my panel layout from the ground up
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