Posted by: Administrator
on April 24, 2007 04:34 AM
Hi, I am Sum's author. Just to put a few things straight:
Not that it is too important, but my name is Jimmy Rönnholm, not Glenn Van Loon.(I would not want poor Glenn to get blamed for my bugs, now would I) I discovered that Glenn has made a Windows utility with the same name, probably the cause of the confusion.
Strange that Usplash settings would not stick... Please post at the ubuntuforums thread at <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=295524" title="ubuntuforums.org">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=295524</a ubuntuforums.org> if you want to help me resolve this bug.
I dont see what would cause the problem though, all it does is to use update-alternatives to change what theme is symlinked to usplash-artwork.so
Anyway, I have tried installing the fingerprint theme directly through SUM and have been successful.
I cannot understand how SUM would cause your system to lock at boot, and that removing it would help. It is only a small python program that edits config files and issues some commands, its presence alone should NOT interfere with the boot process.
I apologize for the (lack of)documentation, I have been too lazy to write anything useful yet.
I have seen some comments here that implies that the effort spent writing SUM would be better directed at something else. I dont really care about those comments myself, but try to think about how that kind of comments could be discouraging to contributors of Free software.
And for the record, I have only been using Linux for two years, and I learned to program in Python about that time too(Only shallow knowledge of C++ and Java before, nothing useful). But I am no programming wizard, so I do not think I could have contributed to any other free software project of importance anyway.
Certainly not writing a new bootloader as some think I have. I could not program my way out of a wet paperbag in assembly... Brr...
Anyway, I am really excited that my software is reviewed at Linux.com<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
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Posted by: Administrator on April 24, 2007 04:34 AMJust to put a few things straight:
Not that it is too important, but my name is Jimmy Rönnholm, not Glenn Van Loon.(I would not want poor Glenn to get blamed for my bugs, now would I)
I discovered that Glenn has made a Windows utility with the same name, probably the cause of the confusion.
Strange that Usplash settings would not stick...
Please post at the ubuntuforums thread at <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=295524" title="ubuntuforums.org">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=295524</a ubuntuforums.org>
if you want to help me resolve this bug.
I dont see what would cause the problem though, all it does is to use update-alternatives to change what theme is symlinked to usplash-artwork.so
Anyway, I have tried installing the fingerprint theme directly through SUM and have been successful.
I cannot understand how SUM would cause your system to lock at boot, and that removing it would help. It is only a small python program that edits config files and issues some commands, its presence alone should NOT interfere with the boot process.
I apologize for the (lack of)documentation, I have been too lazy to write anything useful yet.
I have seen some comments here that implies that the effort spent writing SUM would be better directed at something else.
I dont really care about those comments myself, but try to think about how that kind of comments could be discouraging to contributors of Free software.
And for the record, I have only been using Linux for two years, and I learned to program in Python about that time too(Only shallow knowledge of C++ and Java before, nothing useful).
But I am no programming wizard, so I do not think I could have contributed to any other free software project of importance anyway.
Certainly not writing a new bootloader as some think I have.
I could not program my way out of a wet paperbag in assembly... Brr...
Anyway, I am really excited that my software is reviewed at Linux.com<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
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