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[mave]

Available lang-packs for cups 1.3.11, including also main-page of the cups-interface, which isn't in /usr/share/cups/templates...

mave

[shinobar]

I modified the welcome1stboot.
Sensing Puppy status and gives proper message.
See the SS.

[shinobar]

Now the beta release Wary-500m08 is available.

If you already have the previous wary-500m on your HDD, replace all the 3 system files, vmlinuz, initrd.gz and wary_500.sfs.
The lang_pack is also updated. Remove the old lang_pack and replace with the new contained in the wary-500m08.iso.

CHANGES:

• vmlinuz and wary_500.sfs has unique id to avoid taking wrong system files
  
• First run sequence, new welcome1stboot, index.html, home.htm.
  
• extralang updated to v0.3
  
• updated lang_pack's including cups translations, thanks to mave
  
• desktop icon distance same as LupQ-511
  
• pnethood utf8 option as the default
  
• sfs_load updated to v0.7
  
• pupsaveconfig updated to v1.9.9
  
• grub4dosconfig updated to v1.7
  
• Puppyhelp updated
  
• util-linux updated to 2.16.1-1-w5
  
• rc.update updated(lol) as the one of wary-501/3
  
• Puppy Package Manager bugfix and improved splash(not includes zigbert's new GUI)
  
• Snup2 comes back to the main menu replacing pbackup

TO DO:

• snapmergepuppy to be faster
  
• pdict to be updated
  
• pman or man2html to be supporting UTF-8 encoding and I18n correction
  
• Pschedule, Pupradio, You2pup to be updated
  
• slim down, removing some applicatons

EDIT: We keep Xvesa for now. See the followed discussion.

[yordanj94]

Hi Shinobar.
Haven't been home for a long time.
Today i tried your new "Wary-08".So far so good .No problem.
My favorite one is LUPQ-511. I use it on my laptop [ live-DVD],
but i think Wary-08 is much better to my desktop PC.
Can you tell me is there something really important to move from LUPQ-511 to Wary or you plan to update LUPQ-511 too ?
Greetings !!!

[shinobar]

[yordanj94]

Great news .
Puppy 4.3.1 was my first live CD,but i had a real nightmare with a cyrillic letters,especially with saved web pages on my usb flash card so couldn't read most of them and had to gave up.
I don't need any Ubuntu packages ,but LUPQ-511 for sure works better on Dell Latitude c610 especially touchpad settings .
What surprised me was that for the same avi files mplayer in Wary uses 45% and LUPQ 85% of the processor power.
It's not so important just curious .
Thanks for your hard job.

[shinobar]

[L18L]

thanks for the new version, shinobar

You have on the TODO list "remove Xvesa" !
Xvesa has advantages, too.
In current version of Xorg there are no resolutions for widescreen monitors e.g. 1280x720x24. I think other people will need or like it, too.
Why remove? Just because of size?

Having tested video_upgrade

I have made a small quick hack (1 line) that will show manufacturers other than ati etc.

[shinobar]

[shinobar]

Delete 3 font files(1.6MB in total) from Wary-500m08 to see what happens.

Under /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF:
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf

(But leave 'DejaVuSans.ttf')
Then run 'fc-cache -f', restart X.

They can be removed because the fontconfig in Wary-500m08 makes bold and italic from the standard font.
But some applications does not support fontconfig and it may be a problem.
I am not sure what application does not...

[L18L]

monospace is not working but there is Nimbus Mono L
the other fonts are ok in abiword
edited 2011-02-14
There should be a fonts.alias pointing the missing monospace to Nimbus Mono L

[L18L]

slim down
let us rethink about which scripts have to be builtin for all (will grow up) languages:
countrysetup
extralang
pupsaveconfig
and nothing else, would it be sufficent?
Changing language as soon as possible, maybe moving the X server stuff to after language changing?

removing some applicatons
my 236k: sqlitemanager though newest version 0.6.8-all.xpi is localized in 6 languages, who needs it can download it herself, size 236kB from http://code.google.com/p/sqlite-manager/
edit 2011-02-15
another 60kB: gmeasures delivers wrong results in wary (1 Cubic Meter is not 1 Cubic Yard)

[L18L]

(now long ago) rodin.s wrote:

[rodin.s]

This new welcome1stboot looks better.
I have updated some po and mo files and also added ru-line to SFS-Load desktop file.
There is a small mistake in pman and L10n doesn't work:

[shinobar]

Thanks L18L and rodin for the work.
As for the welcome1stboot, aesthetic can not be ignored,
but i think we are better to take safety.
(Anyway, it cannot be fully displayed with 640x480 screen.)

I am going to display the puppyhelp dialog on the top-left corner of the screen
at the end of the first boot sequence, instead of directly showing the welcome1stboot.