rrq has put a new and effective spam deterrent in place so signatures have been re-enabled.

@bobemoe @iamwhatiam . . . The best thing I can think of would be to call @CenturionDan in a response to that issue. I doubt he has time to trawl through git to find issues and that would bring it to his attention.  I have just done that for both those issues.  As to tags/labels . . . you need permissions to create them and actually, I haven't found them that effective.

The spam situation has been resolved.  Spammers are being filtered at the door.  But we can't get a break.  Now our host's reverse DNS is down so some registration confirmation emails are not being delivered and we're having to manually enable them.

Chanku says it requires JS and wants to avoid that..

We've been using SFS since we went online.  The spam domains are well-known to us and we can delete them with confidence.  But it is CONSTANT manual labor and some are getting through before we can get to them.  This approach is not sustainable.  We have not yet found a way to automate deleting those registrations against the SFS database.

The question asked here is whether forum members have any thoughts about or objections to requiring activation of new accounts via admin intervention.

I can't remember if the root terminal icons weren't in sync between the menu and the panel when I set up my desktop but they are now. I might have changed it in the panel preferences, certainly never via command in the terminal. I change icons all the time in the panel by clicking on properties > edit > icon (just browse to the one you want to use).  Done.

Well, I won't be doing that but there are others who might want to.

Here are the first few nibbles. Probably more to come as I pinged jaromil, nextime and Centurion_Dan . . .

The conversation continues here on botbot.

Do you have upower installed?  That used to be the solution but may not be going forward.  There is history in the botbot logs.

You'll need to create a .gtkrc-2.0 file in your user directory.  Here's an example.  Pick and choose the parts you want:

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" { 

    XfdesktopIconVIew::cell-spacing = 6 
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 6 
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2.5

    XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
	XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 0

    base[NORMAL] = "#626D31" 
    base[SELECTED] = "#A0A985" 
    base[ACTIVE] = "#A0A985" 

    fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" 
    fg[SELECTED] = "#DDDFD3" 
    fg[ACTIVE] = "#DDDFD3" 
} 

widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

There is some additional Xfce Desktop related info in this post.

I have no idea what your talking about . . . I didn't know a kernel had a color!!  LOL!

Thank you fanderal and welcome! It's a little quiet here.  Maybe because happy Devuan users ether don't have problems or know how to fix them on their own. Those of us who have gathered here prefer a simple and understandable format.  In your words . . . no need to "reinvent the forum wheel".   Exactly!!

Welcome, norb!  And thanks for the report on your successful Devuan upgrade and the kind words.  See you 'round!