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    *NixStyle-NG 11 Alpha 1.1

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    November 11th, 2007, 12:35 GMT
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    *NixStyle-NG description

    *NixStyle-NG project lets you configure various parts of your system.

    *nix-style project lets you configure various parts of your system.

    The program is licensed as CreativeCommons 2.0 NonCommercial ShareAlike.

    This is a set of scripts with a zenity based, graphical user interface.

    Run "nix-style" to start the script chooser.

    Here are some key features of "nix style":

    - configuring behavior of bash and change the bash-prompt
    - change the behavior of readline
    - change the behavior of vim
    - change the behavior of nano
    - change/install splashy bootsplash
    - change/install usplash bootsplash
    - choose default compiler and compiler flags
    - tweak hidden gnome preferences

    Debian Only:

    - you can add some extra repos for multimedia, e17 and desktop-artwork.
    the keys are grabbed and installed automatically (This is called AVS)

    Requirements:

    · gtk+ 2.6+
    · python-gtk2 2.4+
    · python-glade2 2.4+
    · sed
    · grep
    · bash
    · zenity 2.16+

    HOW TO INSTALL:

    On Debian/*buntu:

    grab one of the packages and install them with dpkg -i

    Every Other Distro:

    simply run make install (as root)

    the stable *nix-style can also be installed as a nautilus-script by running:

    make install-nautilus (as normal user!)

    HOW TO UNINSTALL

    On Debian/*buntu:

    dpkg --purge nix-style

    Every Other Distro:

    make uninstall

    or

    make uninstall-nautilus

    depending on the install command

    What's New in This Release:

    system/nx-rc:
    - fixed small bug in TERMINFO Path for colored manpages

    python-gtk/aar:
    - fixed path to the glade-file

    python-gtk/gnome-prefs:
    - fixed border chooser combobox

    Makefile:
    - upon uninstall the source entry for nx-rc will be removed
    - the paths for the nano color rcs will be adjusted automatically




    11.a1:

    ***************************************************
    This release does not ship the whole NX-NG Suite!
    It Ships:
    - BashStyle
    - GnomePrefs
    - SplashyThemer
    - AAR (ex. AVS)
    The other subprogramms _are_not_ shipped

    NX-NG 11 will automatically uninstall v10
    ***************************************************

    */*:
    - rebuilt everything from scratch

    glade-xml/*.png:
    - new icons, from Everaldos Crystal_Project

    python-gtk/*:
    - use #!/usr/bin/env python instead of #!/usr/bin/python
    - many internal changes
    - cleaner code

    python-gtk/nixstyle:
    - uses now a real aboutdialog

    python-gtk/bashstyle:
    - switched to GConf
    - New UI

    python-gtk/splashythemer:
    - ported to pygtk
    - look for themes in /usr/share/splashy/themes or /etc/splashy/themes

    python-gtk/gnomeprefs:
    - New UI

    Gnome-Panel:

    - dropped option for selecting custom menu-image
    - added option for enabling/disabling completion in the Run Dialog
    - added option for enabling/disabling tooltips on hover

    FileRoller:
    - added option for choosing wether to open nautilus after extracting archives or not
    - added option for skiping overwrting of newer files, which already exist
    - (both can be set within the extraction dialog inside file-rollers extract-dialog,
    - but not when using the nautilus-extension)

    Gnome-Terminal:
    - added option for enabling the use of the currents's theme colors background/foreground

    SearchTool:
    - dropped.

    MetaCity:
    - option for enabling Compositor dropped
    - option for choosing mousebutton-modifier added, contains 2 entries more, than the one in the Window Capplet

    Nautilus:
    - option for choosing ~ or ~/Desktop to be displayed on the Desktop dropped
    - option for only showing folders in the sidepanel dropped

    BudBuddy:
    - option for enabling/disabling bugbuddy on crash (no longer available in 2.20+)

    Evince:
    - dropped (option no longer available in 2.20+)

    CDBurner:
    - use now a spinbutton instead of a textbox for writespeed setting

    Gimme:
    - dropped

    Interface:
    - dropped

    system/nx-rc:
    - re-unified colo-rc, bash-style-system and bash_style2_rc to nx-rc
    - replaced the last �33(0x�33(B by |, for full linux-console compatibility
    - furthermore colors will be automatically disabled when on linux-console,
    - to prevent nasty results
    - this file is system-wide, it will grab it's values from GConf and there
    - will no longer be a per-user configuration.

    python-gtk/aar:
    - AAR (ex. AVS) supports now 12 Repos
    - Grabbing the keys is currently not supported
    - There's now a button, for running apt-get update
    - We use now /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ instead of modifying the main sources.list



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