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Last edited by intrigeri Jan 12, 2021
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Wheezy

We need to start porting Tails to Wheezy, and test it. Work is done in the feature/wheezy Git branch.

Tickets:

  • 1.1 milestone
  • tails#6015 (closed)

Current state (2013-12-23): builds, boots. Quite some things are broken, and many minor features had to be disabled to workaround build issues.

  • Research to do
    • Windows Camouflage
      • Windows XP
        • Left to do
        • Resources
      • Windows eight themes
        • Screenshots
        • Configuration
        • Other ressources
      • Windows seven themes
        • Screenshots
        • Mostly working configuration
        • Other ressources
  • What works

Research to do

Windows Camouflage

Ticket: tails#6342 (closed)

We need to implement the Windows Camouflage mode in GNOME3 "Classic" (aka. fallback) mode.

Windows XP

i.e. porting the 1.0 theme

Left to do

  • Metacity theme, mouse cursor theme and desktop background: should be set correctly in /usr/local/bin/tails-activate-winxp-theme, but isn't actually applied; perhaps changing GSettings in PostLogin.default isn't supported? We should try migrating this code from PostLogin.default to a script started from ~/.config/autostart/ and see if this works better; might be applied too late, though.
  • GTK2 theme
  • GTK3 theme
  • icons theme
  • only one GNOME panel
  • many, many more settings set in the script (/usr/local/bin/tails-activate-winxp-theme) that enables all this when the user has enabled Windows Camouflage in the Greeter

Resources

  • The Luna XP theme we ship in Tails/Squeeze only supports GTK2, but upstream have ported it to GTK3 and MATE since then.
  • Ubuntu's GNOME Classic is not that far from a good old GNOME2 DE: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PreciseGnomeClassicTweaks
  • The default theme (/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/) can be forked and customized.
  • GTK3 Windows-like themes seem to be in the works, and http://gnome-look.org/ has a few ones.
  • some customization tips

Windows eight themes

Screenshots

  • http://www.techranger.net/media/Screenshot_12.png
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVEvbKg6JNI&src_vid=_E1UxI5I_jo&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_571654
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi8NpwiEuzc

Configuration

  • http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/02/windows-8-metro-gtk-theme
    • gtk3: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=158721 (GPLv3)
    • metacity: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Windows+8+modern+UI?content=157024 (GPLv3)
  • icon theme: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=153241 (GPLv3)
  • cursors: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=155025 (GPLv3)
  • panel taskbar: https://github.com/lanoxx/window-picker-applet/ (GPLv3)
  • panel height: 48px

Other ressources

  • http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-8-GTK-Theme-for-Linux-Is-as-Close-As-Possible-to-Microsoft-s-Windows-8-OS-428436.shtml

Windows seven themes

Screenshots

  • http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Windows-7-Screenshot-118183.html
  • http://i1-win.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Windows-7_5.jpg

Mostly working configuration

  • GTK2, GTK3, metacity: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Win2-7+Remix?content=153233 (GPLv3)
  • icon theme: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=153241 (GPLv3)
  • cursors: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=155025 (GPLv3)
  • panel taskbar: https://github.com/lanoxx/window-picker-applet/ (GPLv3)

Other ressources

  • http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Windows+7+theme?content=116499
  • http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Win2-7+Pack?content=113264
  • http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tutoriel/theme_seven
  • http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/%5BLXDE%5DWinAte+-+Windows+7+8+Theme+pack?content=163150
  • icon only taskbar panel applet
    • Talika (gnome2) http://www.webupd8.org/2010/01/talika-applet-icons-only-window-list-on.html
    • Dockbarx (gnome2 + standalone): http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/DockbarX?content=101604

What works

  • Reading (IMAP) and sending email with Claws.
  • OpenPGP applet symmetric enc/dec
  • Roundcube webmail
  • MAT cleans a PDF
  • Erase memory on shutdown
  • USB installer (Clone & Install)
  • Iceweasel/torbrowser works
  • FTP works on LAN in Nautilus
  • Streaming in Totem
  • Unlocking and using already created persistence
  • Tails-additional-software works
  • Unsafe browser
  • Orca
  • memory wiping on shutdown works, when triggered by the GNOME shutdown UI, on a system that has this feature working despite Linux 3.11
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