(Status: Alpha 2) Phoenix Linux Development - Let's bring back Cub!

[dominichayesferen]

Well, thought it'd be better starting a new Issue in terms of keeping the other one tidy for other ideas not related to Phoenix Linux, while this can be talk, hype, development, and so on, for my Rebirth of Phoenix Linux...
@RTbecard @dashohoxha You seemed interested in this project...

[dominichayesferen]

Starting this issue, another screenshot, this time, on real hardware:

[dominichayesferen]

A bit on how this baby will be developed:

• A release will happen every Ubuntu LTS Cycle, and then, if no major bugs are reported, will then fall dormant for the most part as they'd be nothing really to do for it...
  But don't worry, unless announced, it'll never be dead. You could potentially even help add features to it, if you wanted, but first, this needs finishing, and releasing before all this is figured out... (I'm thinking Pull Requests/Feature Request Issues)
• This will probably then mean feren OS gets more of the love, but to be honest, Cub already looked awesome, and had enough love put into it, which can all be transferred from fresh...

[xmwx38]

I support you, comrade! The second go is always the medal winner! ;)

[dashohoxha]

@feren I liked Chromixium for being lightweight, simple and yet beautiful. Most of the time I work either in browser or in terminal, so this is all that I need, extravagant desktops do not impress me. It also works well and looks great on old computers and this is a plus. It is a pity that it was discontinued.

I am interested in seing it revived. I do have experience with shell scripts etc. but I have never worked in making a custom distribution. But maybe I can help with testing.

By the way, ferenOS looks interesting too.

[dominichayesferen]

Top Panel Mode because why not...

[dominichayesferen]

Good News! It installs!

[dominichayesferen]

Fun Fact: For some reason, since this installer mode goes OpenBox, you can actually access the fully-featured OpenBox menu by right-clicking behind Ubiquity...

[Elbullazul]

@feren when can we expect an alpha/beta/rc release?

[dominichayesferen]

@Elbullazul Soon(TM)

[dominichayesferen]

The only issue I need to fix is that there's no file browser for Chromium when a 'Open File' is called... Other than that, it works fine, and also might need to fix Plank icon placements, if it's not already fixed...
Once Plank Placements are sorted, I'll start removing applications and installing more to get it closer to Cub, then will release the Alpha

[Elbullazul]

what's wrong with plank?

[dominichayesferen]

Item Order

[Elbullazul]

it's not in the right order? Plank now uses gsettings to determine object placement and order

[dominichayesferen]

Which Schema?