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#21 Post by trapster »

Been playing with this for a couple days now.
If freezes every once in a while, especially when trying to run lxpanel or gkrellm. Other than that, not too bad. I do miss the desktop right click menu and the easy virtual desktop access in the taskbar.
Back to fluxbox for me :)
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#22 Post by Joshas »

to Eyes-Only: Give your thanks to EDE team at http://equinox-project.org/ , they did all the hard work - I've only compiled and packaged it for Puppy.

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#23 Post by Eyes-Only »

Just to give an update on this rather delightful desktop environment which I've been enjoying so much Joshas:

Originally I'd had this installed upon my Mandriva (Gnome) 2008.1 Spring and I disliked it terribly because: A) I couldn't get my font settings to stick and: B) I couldn't get it to duplicate my Mandi menu nor could I figure out how to. When researching the matter back then on the EDE homepage, if I understood them correctly, they didn't even have a script for updating the menus!! It had to be done through the manual menu editor which comes with EDE. (If I understood them correctly---I may not have which is frequently my problem.) Thanks to Plinej we here in Puppy don't have that problem!

Once again: Thank you Plinej for that!

I ended up having to re-install my Mandi partition a few months back and I never did get around to replacing EDE upon it. Where the experience hasn't always been so well I satisfied myself with my usual desktop of Sawfish/Lxpanel/ROX.

Last night I decided to re-install it on Mandriva. However, not knowing exactly what programmes it needed (unlike Gnome or KDE which I know reasonably well) I had to use the "metapackage". Imagine my surprise Joshas when that hauled in---are you ready for this one?!---265 megs of "essential apps and dependencies"! :shock: No problem of course. I mean---we ALL have terabyte drives now, don't we? :lol: (I sure don't!) Like I told my wife, "Isn't it amazing that I was able to get 'basically' the same thing on my Puppy for under 2 megs?!" (Yes, I realise it doesn't have xemacs. Like I'm going to need that?)

Ah! But how great it was to have Plinej's "EDE menu builder"! Despite being built for Puppy it worked like a charm on my Mandriva and I got a fully-populated menu!

Furthermore: I also run Parsix 1.5r1. Now Debian doesn't have EDE in our repos, or at least not that I've ever been able to find anyway. Perhaps they have the .deb of it on the EDE homepage but it doesn't matter. I'm much accustomed Joshas to turning .pets back to .tar.gz files and using them elsewhere, see?

So I likewise wanted you to know that your EDE Desktop, along with Plinej's menu builder, works just fabulous on Parsix/Debian as well! I've been using it the entire day and it's been rock-solid without a single crash nor error file written against it! :shock:

I've been VERY long-winded here. Moreso than usual. But I just had to lay the groundwork for the both of you to see this. Magnificent! Thank you both from the bottom of my heart.

Amicalement/Cheers!

Eyes-Only
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Proud user of LXpup and 3-Headed Dog. 8)
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