Great to "hear" from you again! Thanks! Ah yes, I always remember your statement that anything with the name "Basic" in it makes you break out in a rash! :) Oh, I wouldn't put Genie in the same leage as Basic. I think it is a nice language which I will surely get into once I get...

I really like this forum, the help, the camaraderie even the strong opinions and rough exchanges. But there are some times where the conversations become fights and the fights become personal. This sometimes drives away people that would rather be enjoying their time contributing. I found this artic...

Looks like a fun project. Here is an idea: An application can be created to replace the menu button. It can build the menu based on the XDG files and you could do whatever you want on that application without modifying JWM. This is relatively easy to do. Another alternative would be to fork a "...

That nobody currently maintains the network wizard was clear in the release notes for 4.3-4.3.1 Hey, it wasn't clear to me. The release notes mention that Dougal is working on it. I was recently looking around to see what are the latest news on the wizard and I've seem to know why Dougal is not mai...

First the obvious answer to any programming problem: 1. Yes there is a way: modifying the code. It is not possible with the current code. There aren't any configuration parameters to do this. 2. Please consider that JWM's goal is to have a minimalistic functional window manager. This is one of the m...

I participated in the Ontario [GNU] Linux Fest conference a couple of weeks ago. On my name tag I choose to include "PuppyLinux" as my distro of choice as a way to start conversations with people. It is surprising number of people that approached me to say that they either, like puppy, use...

Hey, I heard network wizard. Have you considered that the problem may not be the network wizard but your hardware? If you knew the time the people that wrote the drivers, that programmed the wpa supplicant, the people that wrote the Network wizard (Barry, Tempestuous, Dougal, me and many others) hav...

OK, I'm jumping into the Vala wagon. I started today with Genie but found several little annoyances which, without proper documentation, gave me a headache. So I moved to Vala and it just feels natural. I wrote a little test application that uses Gtk, Glade, and SQLite. Creating multiple windows def...

And how much easier do you think it would be to learn vala than C? C : Pretty easy to learn, and there are a lot of resources. The problem is that it is not easy to program well. It's very easy to write crappy code that's difficult to understand and maintain. Vala : Although the language is simple,...

Another is the American 'Have a nice day' or 'Break a leg' - why say something you don't mean? Talking about expressions. Here in my neck of the woods (Canada), to the question "how are you?" people respond "Not bad". As a new commer I always found that amusing as it sounds very...

How to participate in an FLOSS project or community is tricky, it took me some time to get my head around it. I've found this particular forum a great way to do it. One of the sessions at Ontario [GNU] Linux Fest is very timely to this discussion. I'll attend and see what I can get from it. If you a...

Unfortunately my programming skills are well out of date so I'd be of no use there. Nobody uses Fortran, COBOL and BASIC any more, do they? Programming skills are never out of date. When it's my turn to hire someone I usually go for someone that knows how to program even if they don't know the spec...

I do not permit distractions. Then move on. No one asked you to reply. You are the one bringing back the non-issue. Trust me when I say there are things that have happened behind the scenes which you are not privy to and that I am loath to speak about. Oops, for those of you that don't know I'm str...

We can vent....we can be mean...rivalry exists. BUT....... Every now and then I vent but it's rare and I haven't done it in a long time. I don't have any rivalries and I utterly ignore why someone would find imposible to interact with me other than not wanting to, which is reason enough. Now, let's...

from rasa This is where I gathered there was a bugtracker in use...perhaps it still exists. I just confirmed it still exists! http://tracker.nfshost.com/mantis/login_page.php The main issue is that people had to get an account to add bugs to it. The administrator was jmarsden. Is he still around? H...

Ops, you left behind the last sentence of that same paragraph.

Barry wrote:can't be bothered) -- those people are welcome to organise their own fork of Puppy, call it 'doggy' or something.

But I understand what Puppyite says.

sorry didnt know this about the official position on the bug tracker. could you post a link or general area where we/i could read those comments on bugtracker. Here is the main link: http://www.puppylinux.com/development/project-statement.htm There are other comments in Barry's blog. I wish there w...

Never have I annoyed a dev, nor would I. Do you assume I would be stupid enough to annoy someone who is earnestly trying to help me? I am sure you have but I won't ask for a show of hands. Leaving things half done or partly broken is against my very nature, but I realize some peoples MMV in this re...

Without starting another pissing contest I will limit my response to facts. The cause of this perhaps may be that some people who hold sway over the Puppy community are either ill equipped or not conscientious enough to give Puppy what I perceive it needs most, better organization, coordination and ...

I just saw a post in Barry's blog that may be related to your problem

http://www.puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=01134