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technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4819 Location: Kingwood, TX

Does anyone have a need for new xorg drivers - I know some of them that are included are a little outdated - especially the geode driver which I already made a .pet for since Puppy only includes the deprecated amd driver.

Xorg vs Xvesa makes such a huge difference in the desktop experience I felt I should offer my services.

For binary only drivers you are likely on your own, but if anyone has a video card that is not fully supported I can give it a run.

disciple · Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 02:46 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 03:29 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 03:47 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 05:15 Post subject:

I was thinking that by eliminating fixmenus we would get rid of the huge delay while it claims to be updating menus when you install a .pet though.

But now I think about it, it can't just be running fixmenus, because fixmenus doesn't actually take long. I might take a look at the code to see what it IS doing. Petget does need work anyway - the list of missing dependencies needs to be selectable, or saved to a file or something (so you don't have to write them down), the lists need to expand when you make the window bigger, and it needs to work on shorter screens (people complain about that every now and then). Someone also suggested the other day the ability to save a local copy of a package when installing it, so you can reuse it - that would be VERY useful.
I guess I'm well off the topic of "Desktop and Artwork" now, but these are relatively cosmetic things that would make Puppy seem a lot more user-friendly Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 08:16 Post subject:

I'm no genius when it comes to code, But I managed to get it going
basically this pet I made up will
-make a new menu item-Menu/Shutdown/Refresh Menu
when you click "Refresh Menu", it does a few things
1st - "fixmenus"
2nd - "Restarts JWM"
3rd - Restarts Freememory applet so it goes back to the taskbar where it belongs:)
I also made a quick icon for it but if people like this new option, I'll spend more time on the looks
I've tested it many times and checked for extras left running behind by using Pprocess and all looks well, Sure probably my code needs fixing, but It does work just fine. Anyways have a test Smile

oh ya the nice thing about it, when you refresh, you don't close any applications or web pages, Because its not using restartX Server. I also made one for Icewm if anyone wants it Smile

It should work on all puppy 2-4 series but not 2.14r

Lobster · Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 09:10 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 18:40 Post subject:

Looking at this petget code maybe the delay is in the indexgen.sh - I didn't even realise Puppy indexed help files for installed packages now. But has anybody tried it? If you go to help and then select a package (even a livecd package), usually it looks it up on wikipedia or goes to its homepage, even if there is a local help file installed. What is the point in that?

ttuuxxx · seamonkey-1.1.11.pet

I tried the new seamonkey 2 and well I liked the theme Smile

For a Mozilla default theme its kind of nice compared to the verrrrrrrry old Seamonkey theme, anyways I managed to make it work on 1.1.11 on puppy 4.1, It needed the code and icons to work. So if your using 4.1.11 try it out:) Also if our using a different seamonkey, Just install the pet, then go usr/lib/Seamonkey1.1.11 and rename or copy the seamonkey1.1.11 to what ever version you have installed, Or extract the pet and rename the usr/lib/Seamonkey1.1.11 to what ever version your running. and repackage it
ttuuxxx

disciple · Posted: Mon 10 Nov 2008, 10:23 Post subject:

YEs, that looks nice, instead of ugly Smile

But can I turn off the button labels? How?

2byte · Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 357

In 4.1 and 4.1.1, freememapplet no longer appears in the taskbar if ezpup or icewm is installed. It isn't listed in the process manager either. If run from the terminal it shows up as a teeny application on the desktop so I suspect that it was compiled without eggtrayicon. Although this isn't an issue with jwm it would be nice if this was fixed in 4.2 since icewm is one of the most popular additions to Puppy.

Vern

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6543 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

I think ttuuxxx's refresh-menu-idea is good, but then the petget message must be changed from telling to restart jwm. The main reason why I think so, is because my hacked fixmenu script that reformating the menu (see picture in main post) is much slower than the original.

WhoDo
The Stardust desktop is getting closer to something for public. As I see it there are several ways of releasing it.
- Upload piece by piece on the forum.
- Make a Ezpup-like package that installs on top.
- Release it with a 4.2 alpha. You get all scripts, packages, artwork and info.

There are negatives and positives about all of them, so I thought you could make the best decision. I'm not at all finished, but the base seems rather settled. The status:
- Icons (50%)
- Wallpaper (80%)
- Menu (100%) ???
- Widgets (80% version 0.1) this will of course be a never ending story
- Gtk-theme (100%, else we want another one)
- Jwm-theme (50% should it be blue or orange?)
- Add icon/program to desktop (70%)
- Utility bar (20%)

Sigmund

WhoDo · Posted: Mon 10 Nov 2008, 14:20 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 10 Nov 2008, 14:52 Post subject:

[quote="WhoDo"]

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6543 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Please look at these 2 wallpapers. They are both stretched from the master-image. One to ratio 4:3 (640x480), and the other to widescreen, - ratio 16:10 (640x400). The master-image has a resolution of 1750x1200, which is something in between (the same ratio as 640x440).

The question is: Can we use this ONE wallpaper for all kind of screens?