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Snail · Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Posts: 238

At the top of the current first post of this thread it mentions right-click. I had assumed that this meant that right-click was installed out-of-the 265-box. I was also under the impression that right-click was a development of Rox-right-clicks, originated by HairyWill. However, I must be wrong, because Rox-right-clicks created a separate, customised Open-with right-click option for each mime-type. By contrast, the open-with sub-menu of the Rox right click menu is always the same. Does this menu seem sensible for a directory to anyone?

A properly customised open-with menu would IMHO be a major usability enhancement to Puppy. It is a bit hard to see why this was not made standard some time ago. Alternatively, in 432 Official, ttuuxxx used the customisable area at the top of the right click menu to provide much the same enhancement.

The customisable area is user-modifiable but is a PITA to use, because, contrary to what is said in the Rox manual, you have to make a wrapper script to open the clicked file or directory.

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5032 Location: Australia

playdayz and rerwin,
Regarding extra drivers, I seem to recall that you have already included a few of my fixed/upgraded drivers?
From the "Extras for Puppy 5.1" thread, I consider the important updates to be:

ath5k-patched-k2.6.33.2.pet
tg3-3.110-k2.6.33.2.pet
dhcpcd-5.2.9-Puppy5.pet
Puppy5.1-WPA-hotfix.pet
atl1e-v1.0.1.14-k2.6.33.2.pet
iwlagn-firmware-update-k2.6.33.2.pet

Most of the other drivers in that thread are for very recent hardware, and the value of adding them seems to be offset by the fact that new hardware and drivers are appearing all the time. If you added my Realtek wifi drivers, for example, there's a fair chance that several new Realtek devices would appears shortly afterwards, and the Realtek drivers require immediate updating to support them.

So the only additional driver I consider worthy of adding would be "acx-old-k2.6.33.2.pet". This supports a range of wifi devices which are quite common, and these devices are otherwise unsupported in Lucid 5.x.

But hold the presses!
There's an important wifi firmware update necessary for certain (old) orinoco-based wifi devices.
I now attach the orinoco firmware package, which should be located in /lib/modules/all-firmware
Then a corresponding new line needs to be added to /etc/modules/firmware.dep.2.6.33.2

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5032 Location: Australia

Snail · Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Posts: 238

In order to make a simple mouse cursor switch, clicking on pcur tells you to first go to the PPM and download some cursor themes. In 265, as in all other Puppies I have tried, this means downloading nearly 41MB of crud! This is nearly 1/3 the size of the entire Lupu ISO to change a 330 byte file! A 125,000-fold overkill.

It is faster and takes less keystrokes to copy a cursor from the Help file of the PupSnap screen capture utility

I liked mikeB's comment on this; "It's supposed to be Puppy, not Great Dane Linux" Laughing

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2423 Location: Texas, USA

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DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK

Will the 'final' have these umount enhancements (please) http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02360

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