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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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<head>
<title>LOSI - Litestep Open Source Installer</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="global.css" title="style sheet" type="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
img.losiwelcomepage {
float: right;
padding: 0 0 1em 1em;
}
</style>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="ie6-hack.css" title="IE-only style sheet" type="text/css">
<![endif]-->
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="ie7-hack.css" title="IE-only style sheet" type="text/css">
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</head>
<body>
<div id="head">
<img src="losiheader.png" alt="losi header">
</div>
<div id="container">
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">Main</a></li>
<li><a href="ss.html">Screenshots</a></li>
<li><a href="whatdo.html">What <em>you</em> can do</a></li>
<li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li>
<li><a href="bugs.html">Bugs and ToDo</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="main">
<h1>Welcome</h1>
<img class="losiwelcomepage" src="losiwelcomepage.jpg" alt="Screenshot from LOSI">
<p>This is the official homepage for the Litestep Open Source
Installer, LOSI. This is where you find information about it
and the latest news. For development files you should go to
<a href="http://github.com/Tobbe/losi/tree/master">http://github.com/Tobbe/losi/</a></p>
<h2>News</h2>
<h3>2009.06.02 — New page address</h3>
<p class="news">Because of the downtime of the old page I've
decided to move the web page over to github too. So now
everything that has to do with LOSI is on github.</p>
<p>You can view the source for the entire webpage at
<a href="http://github.com/Tobbe/losi/tree/gh-pages">
http://github.com/Tobbe/losi/tree/gh-pages</a> if you want.</p>
<h3>2009.05.07 — LOSI 0.4.5</h3>
<p class="news">Fixed a critical bug and thought I'd make a new release.</p>
<p>The fix should make SLI-ThemeManager work again.</p>
<p><a href="http://cloud.github.com/downloads/Tobbe/losi/LOSI-0.4.5.exe">Download link for LOSI 0.4.5</a></p>
<h3>2009.05.07 — Issue Tracking on github.com</h3>
<p>The developers behind github have now added issue tracking, so I
decided to move everything from lighthouseapp over to the
<a href="http://github.com/Tobbe/losi/">LOSI github page</a> to
keep the code and issue reports at one place.</p>
<p><a href="http://github.com/Tobbe/losi/issues">Check it out!</a></p>
<h3>2009.03.18 — LOSI 0.4</h3>
<p class="news">New release of LOSI with LiteStep 0.24.8 Final</p>
<p>The main changes/fixes/additions are the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Upgraded to LiteStep 0.24.8 Final.</li>
<li>Choosing to install for all users now actually does
what it says. The shell will be set in the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE part of the registry.</li>
<li>Installing for all users will give all the users on the
computer their own copies of the theme and personal
folders.</li>
<li>Updated to the latest stable version of xPaintClass
(Update 6).</li>
<li>The code for launching Explorer when you uninstall LOSI
is much more reliable now.</li>
<li>Added http://www.ls-themes.org/modules/download/ as a
NLM site and got rid of nbi-studios.</li>
</ul>
<p>For the full list of changes, check out the
<a href="http://github.com/Tobbe/losi/commits/">commit
log</a> I have at github.</p>
<p>Get LOSI 0.4 from the <a href="downloads.html">downloads page</a>.</p>
<h3>2009.01.17 — Version Control and Issue Tracking</h3>
<p class="news">I have started using Git for version control of
LOSI source code. The code is hosted at github.com,
<a href="http://github.com/Tobbe/losi/">
http://github.com/Tobbe/losi/</a>.</p>
<p>I have also gotten an account at lighthouseapp.com for
issue tracking.
<a href="http://losi.lighthouseapp.com/projects/23511-losi">
http://losi.lighthouseapp.com/projects/23511-losi</a>. There
you can see what known bugs there are in LOSI and what feature
requests I have gotten for LOSI. By going to the milestones
you can also see what's left to do before another release
comes out.</p>
<p>I will evaluate these services. If I don't like them I can
always go back to what I was using before...</p>
<p>I haven't moved all the bugs etc from this page over to
lighthouse yet, but I obviously plan to do so in the future.</p>
<h3>2008.10.19 — Virus</h3>
<p class="news">I've gotten a couple of reports that ClamAV reports
that LOSI contains a virus. The virus it finds is
Trojan.PSW.IEPass. No other virus program finds any viruses in
LOSI so it should be safe to treat this as a false positive.
</p>
<h3>2008.09.16 — LOSI 0.3</h3>
<p class="news">I have a new release out with the following
changes</p>
<ul>
<li>Added a new page that warns the user if he/she is
trying to install LiteStep when there already is some
version of LiteStep installed to the computer.</li>
<li>Fixed the bug where the uninstaller would remove too
much (it didn't keep the personal files even if you
asked it to).</li>
<li>Minor changes to the default popup menu.</li>
<li>Made it possible to associate .box files with a text
editor. (.box files are used by the module LSBox.)</li>
<li>Localized the section selection checkboxes.</li>
<li>Updated to xPaintClass 1.0 Update 5.</li>
<li>Added SLI-ModuleManager to the utilities.</li>
<li>Made the "WhereProfiles" page autodetect where the
profiles are on the currently installed LiteStep (if
there is a currently installed LiteStep).</li>
<li>Fixed a bug in SectionTheme. It could overwrite
existing themeslist.rc and themeselect.rc files</li>
<li>When browsing for evar paths the Find File dialog will
default to $PROGRAMFILES if it thinks the current path
is "weird".</li>
<li>SetShell would always try to set the shell to
C:\LiteStep\litestep.exe no matter where you installed
LiteStep under certain conditions. This is now
solved.</li>
<li>Made the uninstaller stay open even after it is done
to allow the user to read the uninstallation log. The
uninstaller closes when the user presses the "Finish"
button.</li>
</ul>
<p>And the folowing changes are patches I have gotten. (Thanks
a lot for these patches!)
<ul>
<li>Added release_notes.txt to the installation</li>
<li>Removed the "read-only" checkbox from the evar
browse dialogs</li>
<li>Repositioned the gui elements on the evar configuration
pages to be evenly spaced and aligned on both pages.</li>
</ul>
<p>This is <a href="downloads.html">the page</a> where you can
find the download.</p>
<h3>2008.06.15 — Previous Installation</h3>
<p class="news">I have added a page to the installer that detects
previous LiteStep installations and tells the user how to
handle that if it thinks the user has to do anything.</p>
<h3>2008.06.07 — Updated the Bugs and ToDo page</h3>
<p class="news">I've updated the <a href="bugs.html">Bugs and Todo
page</a> with all bug reports I've gotten from different users.
I have also set the goal for the next release. If you know of
any bug or feature you want that isn't on the list please don't
hesitate to contact me (Tobbe) about it.</p>
<h3>2008.06.02 — LOSI 0.2</h3>
<p class="news">Now that LiteStep 0.24.8 RC1 is out I thought it
would be a good time to release a new version of LOSI.</p>
<p>Here's a list of things that has changed since version
0.1</p>
<ul>
<li>Updated to LiteStep 0.24.8 RC1.</li>
<li>Made the file association code work again. I don't know
when that stopped working.</li>
<li>Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the installer to not
create the ThemesDir and the two .rc files in it.</li>
<li>Fixed the "Slow switching between evar pages in
installer." bug.</li>
<li>Updated to the latest version of SLI-ThemeManager
(thanks Anydmon).</li>
<li>A new page has been added that checks for prerequisites
(Internet Explorer 4 or newer and Visual C++
DLLs).</li>
<li>Made the uninstaller better at cleaning up after the
installation.</li>
<li>Added xDesk settings to personal.rc.</li>
<li>Added some basic sanity checks to the installation path
so no one tries to install LiteStep to C:\Windows or
other places equally stupid.</li>
</ul>
<p>Find the download on the <a href="downloads.html">downloads
page</a></p>
<h3>2008.06.01 — Prerequisites</h3>
<p class="news">I've been working on a new page for the installer.
It tells the user what prerequisites they need to install in
order for LiteStep and the included theme to work. It is almost
done. I just have to get someone to translate it to German and
French.</p>
<p>I've put up a page with all the prerequisites and a download
link to them here: <a href="prereq.html">prereq.html</a></p>
<h3>2008.01.31 — LOSI 0.1</h3>
<p class="news">I'm really excited about this latest release of
LOSI. It has a really great feature: Install without rebooting
or even logging off the computer! Thanks to ilmcuts for finding
the info on how to do this.</p>
<p>The list of changes since the last version:</p>
<ul>
<li>It's possible to install (and uninstall) LS without
rebooting or even logging off the computer.</li>
<li>I've fixed the bug where you couldn't install a .lsz
theme archive if the full path to it contained
spaces.</li>
<li>There used to be an extra !recycle in the !popup menu
entry that updates the themes list. That has been
removed.</li>
<li>Added the posibility to not create any start menu
icons.</li>
<li>I've added zBM's latest french translations.</li>
<li>The bug regarding registry paths and usernames that
Andymon found has been fixed. It might affect
installations to "Documents and Settings" as well, I
have to investigate that further.</li>
<li>Fixed a bug in the installer that prevented Explorer
from starting as the shell.</li>
<li>Fixed another bug in the Uninstaller that would make it
delete a bunch of system settings from the registry when
uninstalling if LS wasn't set as the shell.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2008.01.29 — Changelog</h3>
<p class="news">This is pretty much just a copy/paste from the LOSI
changelog.</p>
<ul>
<li>Added the posibility to not create any start menu
icons.</li>
<li>More work as gone in to the "install ls without
rebooting the computer" feature. Mostly it's been
changes to the finish page code.</li>
<li>I've added zBM's latest french translations.</li>
<li>The bug regarding registry paths and usernames that
Andymon found has been fixed. It might affect
installations to "Documents and Settings" as well, I
have to investigate that further.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2008.01.16 — Fixed bugs and added features</h3>
<p class="news">I have fixed a few bugs in the last couple of days.
The first one is that you couldn't install a .lsz theme archive
if the full path to it contained spaces. The second thing I
fixed was to remove the extra !recycle when updating the themes
list in the popup. Thanks to a feature request I have now added
an option not to create any start menu icons.</p>
<p>I have also been working on installing Litestep without
without having to reboot the computer, or even loggin off. I
have most of the code in place, I just need to test all the new
and modified code before I can release it.</p>
<h3>2008.01.13 — Bugs and todo items</h3>
<p class="news">I have added lots of stuff to the
<a href="bugs.html">Bugs and ToDo</a> page. There are both very
easy and a little harder stuff on that page, so whatever your
level of knowledge there is something you can do! Please help
me make LOSI the best installer it can be.</p>
<p>If you have told me about a bug that isn't on that list (and
that is still in LOSI), please let me know and I'll add it.
Also, if you have reported one of the bugs and your name
isn't written after it, just tell me so and I'll add that
too.</p>
<h3>2008.01.09 — LOSI 0.0.9.2</h3>
<p class="news">New version of LOSI. Just some minor
fixes/updates</p>
<ul>
<li>LSAutoHideModules is on by default</li>
<li>$IM$ autodetection works better</li>
<li>SLI-ThemeManager should work from any directory</li>
<li>Removed loose-screws as a NLM site and added
nbi-studio instead.</li>
</ul>
<p>Direct download:
<a href="http://cloud.github.com/downloads/Tobbe/losi/LOSI-0.0.9.2.exe">LOSI-0.0.9.2.exe</a></p>
<h3>2008.01.08 — Changed release plans</h3>
<p class="news">According to the <a href="bugs.html">Bugs and
ToDo</a> page the next version of LOSI is supposed to be able
to install Litestep without rebooting the computer. But because
of the security issue with loose-screws Andymon found over at
<a href="http://ls-universe.info/comment.php?comment.news.450">
ls-universe.info</a> I have decided to make a release before
adding that "no reboot" feature.</p>
<p>The <a href="bugs.html">Bugs and ToDo</a> page has been
updated to reflect this.</p>
<h3>2008.01.04 — GS and other things</h3>
<p class="news">I have added LSAutoHideModules to personal.rc so
that this setting will be turned on by default. If anyone has
a good explanation as to why this is a bad idea, please let me
know. I've also fixed the registry value for SLI-ThemeManager.
I haven't tested that yet, but I suspect it will work as
Andymon told me how it was supposed to look.</p>
<p>I have also played with GlobalSchemes, GS, today. I wanted
to see if I could get it working with OTS2, and I think I
succeeded. I'm currently running Fractal.Design's Laser.Dock
that requires GS to work. After some testing I expect this to
be included in the installer.</p>
<h3>2008.01.02 — Instant messenger</h3>
<p class="news">The installer does its best to provide good default
values for all the evars. It does this by looking in the
registry for the program associated with a certain filetype.
It will for example look for the program that opens .txt files
when filling in $txteditor$.</p>
<p>Instant messenger programs doesn't have a good file extension
like .txt or .avi to look for, so what I used to do was just
to use the default installation path to MSN Messenger,
%PROGRAMFILES%\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe. I still do this, but
I have made it a little bit smarter by checking to see if that
file actually exists. If it doesn't I look for the default
installation directory for Windows Live Messenger. If that file
can't be found either the installer goes in to the registry and
looks to see if Miranda IM is installed, and if it is it uses
that for $im. If Miranda isn't found either it gives up and sets
$im to an empty string.</p>
<h3>2008.01.02 — More webpage activity</h3>
<p class="news">I have decided I want to update this webpage more
often. So basically I'm going to write something here every
time I write something in the losi changelog, or when I get a
new feature request or bug report. I'll try this for a while to
see how many news items this generates. If it's too much work I
might decide to cut down on the reporting a bit.</p>
<p>To take advantage of any improvements and/or changes to LOSI
I write about here you will have to check out the code using SVN
and compile your own installer, ask me nicely to compile it for
you (I'm usually in #litestep on irc.freenode.net) or wait for
a new release of LOSI to be made available.</p>
<h3>2007.12.30 — LOSI 0.0.9.1</h3>
<p class="news">The file association for .lsz files doesn't work in
LOSI 0.0.9 so I have decided to release a bugfix version. This
release also includes an updated engines.list file for use with
the module LSXCommand.</p>
<h3>2007.12.30 — LOSI 0.0.9</h3>
<p class="news">The time has finally come for a new version of LOSI
to be released! Here's a list of some of the things that has
changed since the 0.0.8 release:</p>
<ul>
<li>LOSI now gives the options of doing a "Normal" install
and doing an "Advanced" install. Advanced means you
are given more choices during the installation</li>
<li>LOSS (the shell switching util) and LOEC (the evar
configuration util) are now written in lua</li>
<li>Andymon's great SLI-ThemeSwitcher is the util of choice
for managing themes</li>
<li>It comes with the latest xPaintClass</li>
<li>The uninstaller has gotten much better since the last
release</li>
<li>All the known critical bugs, and a lot of the other
bugs too, have been fixed</li>
</ul>
<p>Almost all the time I have spent on LOSI for the last two
months has been spent on the uninstaller. I hadn't really
bothered with trying/testing it before but now I felt I had to
do some work on it. I'm very pleased with it now.</p>
<p>Go grab it from the <a href="downloads.html">downloads page</a>.</p>
<h3>2007.11.10 — Status report</h3>
<p class="news">Wow! Almost ten months since I last wrote something
here. Fortunately that doesn't mean I haven't done anything to
LOSI during that time!</p>
<p>The LOSI sources has gotten a new home. You now need to point
your SVN client to <a href="svn://svn.litestep.info/losi/">
svn://svn.litestep.info/losi/</a> to check out the source.</p>
<p>I have updated the <a href="bugs.html">Bugs and ToDo
page</a>. You can now see what needs to be done before the next
release will be out.</p>
<h3>2007.01.25 — Screenshots</h3>
<p class="news">I've put some new screenshots up on the <a href="./ss.html">Screenshots page</a>. The-golem gave them to me, thanks.</p>
<h3>2007.01.24 — 0.0.8</h3>
<p class="news">I think this deserves it's own news posting!</p>
<p>Today I present to you the newest public beta of LOSI! Some have called it "the fabled installer", but now it's here ;) I hope you like
it and find it usefull. This version is still OTS2 and comes with ls 0.24.7 final. I'm planning to move to OTS3 and GS in the next
release that isn't just a bugfix. (I will call that release 0.1.) Hopefully LOSI itself will be pretty good right now and shouldn't
require any extensive modifications to be considered usable. The next big thing I'll have to do is probably to look at all the
utils. I have to admit I haven't tested them out as much as I would have wanted.</p>
<p>Please tell me what you think about this version of losi and how it can be inproved.</p>
<p>I will try to continously update the <a href="bugs.html">Bugs and ToDo page</a> as I get reports and requests from anyone who tests
losi. I will also try to update the screenshots page with screenshots from the current version of losi and it's utils.</p>
<p><b>Enjoy!</b></p>
<h3>2007.01.24 — Updates</h3>
<p class="news">Wow! Almost a whole year since the last news on this page.</p>
<p>A lot has happend since then. You've probably already notieced that this page has moved. LOSI 0.0.7 has come and gone. It was never
publicly released, but a select few has tried it out and mostly liked what they saw. I have done heavy testing of it and I think I've
solved all critical bugs.</p>
<h3>2006.02.16 — 0.0.6</h3>
<p class="news">New version of the installer! Yay :) A lot has changed since the last release, that's why I decided to call it version 0.0.6.
Version 0.0.5 actually has been released, but only to one or two testers. Most notable change is that I have totaly changed how LS is
set as shell. I have also decided to remove the theme installer becase it had too many bugs. SetShell has been ported to c++ and
should now run on all windows versions without the need for any extra dlls/runtimes.</p>
<p>For all changes, go to <a href="http://dev.litestep.com/projects/losi/">LOSI's dev-page</a></p>
<p>And the new download can, as always, be found on <a href="downloads.html">the download page</a></p>
<h3>2005.11.25 — Old update</h3>
<p class="news">I actually compiled this version a few weeks ago, but never put it up here until now. Can't really remember what's new
but I'm sure it's better than the 0.0.4.5 version :p Head over to the <a href="http://www.student.lth.se/~dt05tl3/losi/downloads.html">
downloads section</a> to grab it.</p>
<h3>2005.10.31 — Bugs/Tickets</h3>
<p class="news">I have moved the bugs to the development page for this project. The two critical bugs has gotten some attention in SVN, but
I haven't made a build of it. So, if you are installing on anything that's not XP you should check out the source from SVN and build it
yourself.</p>
<h3>2005.10.19 — Minor update</h3>
<p class="news">Just a small update to correct some of the bugs discovered. To see what I fixed take a look at the green items in the
<a href="bugs.html">bugs list</a></p>
<h3>2005.10.17 — First public beta</h3>
<p class="news">The first public beta is released. Please download it and try it out as much as you can. But do remember that it is still
in beta, so it might mess up your computer. It has not been tested on Windows 95/98/98SE or ME, so if you have any of these
operating systems I would love it if you can tell me how it works. What are you waiting for, get over to the <a href="downloads.html">downloads
section</a> and grab it! Please also read the "<a href="whatdo.html">What <em>you</em> can do</a>" page.</p>
<h3>2005.10.17 — This homepage is created</h3>
<p class="news">This is the very first version of this homepage created to be launched at the same time as the first public beta of LOSI. If you
have any comments/complaints about it, please contact me.</p>
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