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- technosaurus
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WebPup
While developing a Puppy web desktop I discovered an brutally simple hack.
I wanted:
MyComputer link - "file:///"
Mydocuments - "file:///root/my-documents"
that was easy - then I tried opening a .doc file in SeaMonkey - up pops Abiword since it was already associated with doc
So I decide to associate .zzz to Pidgin (randomly chosen) and create a blank test.zzz file - I open it in Seamonkey and up pops Pidgin - awesome.
Now I can make a complete web desktop with access to almost all local puppy programs - unfortunately this version will have to be a puplet unless you go through and associate the file types in Seamonkey exactly the same - unless someone knows what file stores file associations.
I just need to figure out how to completely remove jwm/icewm and get X to go straight to Seamonkey for a more barebones version
I wanted:
MyComputer link - "file:///"
Mydocuments - "file:///root/my-documents"
that was easy - then I tried opening a .doc file in SeaMonkey - up pops Abiword since it was already associated with doc
So I decide to associate .zzz to Pidgin (randomly chosen) and create a blank test.zzz file - I open it in Seamonkey and up pops Pidgin - awesome.
Now I can make a complete web desktop with access to almost all local puppy programs - unfortunately this version will have to be a puplet unless you go through and associate the file types in Seamonkey exactly the same - unless someone knows what file stores file associations.
I just need to figure out how to completely remove jwm/icewm and get X to go straight to Seamonkey for a more barebones version
web desktop
Interesting concept. Keep working on it.``
- technosaurus
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I have made some progress on this using 4.1-alpha6
startx (i forget the exact path at the moment).../seamonkey -- :1 <only some applications make it difficult to close or resize this way - tolerable but sometimes annoying
it works with pretty much any other X program to - especially good for running games apparently (Sabayon includes something similar in the boot options to boot straight into playing selected games - works quite well) This may be the future of Linux gaming since it could boot on any PC or Mac as well (no cross platform compiling etc...)... but I digress. I am in information overload right now and am trying to focus on finishing the web desktop for puppy 4.1 which WebPup will be based on.
startx (i forget the exact path at the moment).../seamonkey -- :1 <only some applications make it difficult to close or resize this way - tolerable but sometimes annoying
it works with pretty much any other X program to - especially good for running games apparently (Sabayon includes something similar in the boot options to boot straight into playing selected games - works quite well) This may be the future of Linux gaming since it could boot on any PC or Mac as well (no cross platform compiling etc...)... but I digress. I am in information overload right now and am trying to focus on finishing the web desktop for puppy 4.1 which WebPup will be based on.
hi technosaurus,
you maybe want to look at this
http://www.xpud.org/
as it seems to have your concept.
cheers
aragon
you maybe want to look at this
http://www.xpud.org/
as it seems to have your concept.
cheers
aragon
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- technosaurus
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Desktop is updated now
http://www.openplatformeducation.org/homeb.html
(download to file system for background and icons )
is there any way to scale a background with CSS/html?
http://www.openplatformeducation.org/homeb.html
(download to file system for background and icons )
is there any way to scale a background with CSS/html?
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Good stuff
for a while I will be linking to it as 'Glint2' in my signature
I like the refinements and simplicity and also that much of the info is OS independent
It is also good that it is available online - in time we may store in Puppy but for now development as an online resource page is very useful.
You might also be interested in XUL
http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/intro.html
if you intend to stick with Mozilla browser support (Firefox, Flock and
Seamonkey)
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Thanks Lobster. I'll have to look at XUL since the page doesn't work well with ie anyways and I haven't tried Opera - I'll check that in Pupeez tonight - I think that was from trying to change the background image around so that if you saved it to puppy it would look decent regardless of the default.jpg background included.