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#641 Post by jemimah »

Jim1911 wrote:Hi jemimah,

Thanks for this distribution.

Manual frugal installation of 007 on an ext4 partition. Booted up to the desktop was flawless. shinobar's pupsaveconfig works great, much faster and more user friendly now and it's great that it defaults to 4fs save file. Great that there are minimum applications, however, I do miss Bootmanager coming up after creating a save file so that the usual sfs files may be selected for next boot.

Only problem that I've noted is that pmount is extremely slow, taking almost 40 seconds to mount or unmount a drive. Other distributions take less than 3 seconds.

Cheers,
Jim

System: BFG NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS 512MB, Asus P6T Motherboard, Intel core i7-920 (8MB Cache, 2.66 GHz), DDR3 3GB 1333MHz ram, Pioneer DVR-2910 DVD+-RW Dual Layer Burner, Realtek ALC1200 Audio, HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One
Is the drive mounter in the tray working at a reasonable speed?

There's really no reason to reboot to load sfses. Since you can load them on the fly, you might as well load them on the first boot. I could bring up sfs loader then, but you're already spammed with so much info on the first boot I'd rather not add more chaos.

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#642 Post by jemimah »

Pete22 wrote:
Pete22 wrote: xfce Panel Preferences - When I started I had no idea what a panel was.
I guess you'd call it a taskbar?

Yes.
This brings me to 2 points.

1-In relation to the Bill Gates and law stuff. We need a cheat sheet of terms for ex windoze users. or better yet I suggest instead of using the windows terms, use the linux terms but with a twist. Windows terms could also be added by default as [I'm sorry I don't know the right words for some things] little bubbles that pop up as you mouse over something. When a user got comfortable with the linux terms, these mouse over windoze bubbles could be then be turned off.

2-A panel is a taskbar. Yes, It's so simple, and yet a panel can do so much more than a taskbar can do in windoze. I think comparing it to a taskbar gets them in the right ballpark. But to really configure what they want their panels to do they need to see some in action; so they can understand what is possible.

This is why I think an interactive set up tool for all the features would be great. It could show what something was, explain new terms, and then show several ways of how it is used. With this knowledge the user then set their preferences for an item. Of course there would be a bypass for the geeks to tweak to their delight.



Flash: You don't really have to update it unless your favorite websites tell you that your flash is too old. I think about an updater though.

I understand about the software now. I think an updater would be good, because adobe is always trying to get you to download some other software at their site when it updates through its website. .

I think that the storage flash is talking about is some sort of cookie but not the same kind of cookie that websites usually use. I could be wrong about what they are because I have never seen Windoze ask me how I want to handle this type of storage. So I think an explanation to newbies about what these are and how they might want to handle it would be helpful some where.

Pete
Well there is a Tips and Tricks application. I can add it to the menu for 008.

As for updating - I always thought the update nags were one of the most irritating thing about windows. The Puppy motto is more along the lines of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Once the repo is working, you should be able to check for updates there.

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#643 Post by Jim1911 »

jemimah wrote:
Is the drive mounter in the tray working at a reasonable speed?

There's really no reason to reboot to load sfses. Since you can load them on the fly, you might as well load them on the first boot. I could bring up sfs loader then, but you're already spammed with so much info on the first boot I'd rather not add more chaos.
The drive manager in the tray works fine, thanks, I had not discovered it. Hope that the speed problem with pmount can be corrected otherwise it should be replaced by the drive manager in the tray with an updated icon. There is one problem though, /mnt/home/ partition does not show up, in my case sdb2 is missing but it should be shown as mounted. That eliminates a simple way to look at the partition.

As for bootmanager configuration, it's convenient to use it to set up sfs files that you want to use all the time ie: libreoffice, java, etc. Maybe I should explore the capabilities of loading them on the fly, maybe that would do what I want. However, why has the bootmanager configuration changed so that it is not possible to use it to set up sfs files to load upon boot. It really doesn't need to be loaded upon first reboot, but does need to be accessible.

Thanks, Saluki is developing into an awesome distribution. I'm looking forward to trying it on other hardware.

Cheers,
Jim
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#644 Post by jemimah »

/mnt/home does show up in the side panel in thunar, but it does not show up in the mounter because it is not possible to unmount it. I may be able to make it so it shows up but is greyed out.

The old bootmanager sfs loader is gone because it's been replaced with sfs-load. Having both is confusing. You can just click on any sfs file to load it immediately.
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#645 Post by Jim1911 »

jemimah wrote:/mnt/home does show up in the side panel in thunar, but it does not show up in the mounter because it is not possible to unmount it. I may be able to make it so it shows up but is greyed out.

The old bootmanager sfs loader is gone because it's been replaced with sfs-load. Having both is confusing. You can just click on any sfs file to load it immediately.
Thanks, I didn't realize that "sfs load on-the-fly" was so simple to use and I was under the false impression that when a sfs loaded with "sfs load on-the-fly" , upon reboot that it unloaded. :oops: Next question. How do you unload a sfs file that you no longer want loaded? You keep teaching an old dog new tricks. :)

It would be helpful for /mnt/home to show up in the mounter if it can be used to open the file manager to show the partition as it does when a partition is mounted. Also, is it possible to show the same information about the partitions that are unmounted as is shown for a mounted partition?

Thanks,
Jim

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#646 Post by jemimah »

To unload, run sfs-load, select an sfs and click Unload as shown in the screenshot above.

It's not possible to show the free space for unmounted drives - you have to mount them to find out that information. You can however, easily run partview by right-clicking the freespace applet.

All mounted drives are easily available in Thunar as shown below.
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#647 Post by aarf »

aarf wrote:
more online tools coming soon.> > custom create your required saluki deltas., online md5sums at selected puppy sites..
you've all collectively been deemed too naughty for your own good so what was once soon has become 'not at present'. As you were. Boredom has arrived. Other avenues are calling.

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#648 Post by Geoffrey »

Hi jemimah,
It's looking good, not to many dramas so far, I got the same message as Lobster setting up on first boot, had no trouble with the res,
but xorgwizard needs to be run before using Grandr res changer else it makes a mess of the screen, it did so in my case,

If you rightclick the desktop and go to Applications, System, it appears woofy needs a smaller bone.

I've had no problem with pmount, I actually prefer the boot drive not showing, it's obvious that it's mounted and to access it one only needs to select Home in Thunar.

I don't know what the concern is with windows terminology
minesadorada wrote:One issue: by using familiar Windows terms such as 'Control Panel', 'My Documents' etc, do you think there could be any potential copyright issues with MS should they choose to care? In these SOPA days you never know...
These are generic terms, there is no "My Documents" it's "my-documents", it's like the word wheelbarrow, it's public domain, nobody can lay claim to it.

I've been running Firefox 9.0.1 with no ill effects, flash works ok with it too.

The mounter icon, yes it's small and grey and hard to see on a grey panel, but I can live with that some can't, I did try changing it but every icon remains at that size, I think that's the way it is, maybe a different color would help

Edit: I see that the usb petget problem seems to be solved, I didn't have to install the patched one.
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#649 Post by aarf »

power cable plugged in, continual notifications about power occur until acpid is not enabled in laptoptool. same as in previous salukis.
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#650 Post by peebee »

jemimah wrote:If anyone knows of an icon that looks distinctively like a hard drive, even at a small size on a grey panel - please send it my way.
Hi jemimah

What size image is required?

The 48x48 drive icon from Smooth-Color set seems to reduce to 24x24 reasonably...

Cheers
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#651 Post by magerlab »

one more thing i have :)
almost all gtk themes have RED color in saluki. For example when highlighting menu item it becomes red.

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#652 Post by jemimah »

aarf wrote:power cable plugged in, continual notifications about power occur until acpid is not enabled in laptoptool. same as in previous salukis.
That means your power cable is not making a good connection.

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#653 Post by jemimah »

peebee wrote:
jemimah wrote:If anyone knows of an icon that looks distinctively like a hard drive, even at a small size on a grey panel - please send it my way.
Hi jemimah

What size image is required?

The 48x48 drive icon from Smooth-Color set seems to reduce to 24x24 reasonably...

Cheers
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SVG is prefered. I found this one but yours might be better.
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#654 Post by peebee »

Hi jemimah

There is a menu item "flock" under the browser pull down in the default program chooser - I only have midori loaded....

Cheers
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#655 Post by aarf »

jemimah wrote:
aarf wrote:power cable plugged in, continual notifications about power occur until acpid is not enabled in laptoptool. same as in previous salukis.
That means your power cable is not making a good connection.
yes that is very likely. But only saluki complains. I am plagued with poor connections and fractured cables on nearly every electronic thing i own. I fix them and in a month or two the problem will happen again somewhere else. No one else seems to complain of this connection affliction. Must be something in the air.
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#656 Post by jemimah »

peebee wrote:Hi jemimah

There is a menu item "flock" under the browser pull down in the default program chooser - I only have midori loaded....

Cheers
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Yeah I've been meaning to have a look at that.

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#657 Post by Sage »

I am plagued with poor connections and fractured cables
Cables have to be replaced as copper undergoes fracture due to work-hardening. [It helps to use stranded cable where appropriate, and/or stop kicking them!.]
With Molex and similar, it helps to squeeze the receptacle part ( do we have to do this gender sexual thing here?!) together every so often if you constantly pull them out/push them in (glad we didn't go down the M/F route?!).

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#658 Post by jemimah »

aarf wrote:yes that is very likely. But only saluki complains.
I personally consider that to be a feature - not a bug. :)

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jemimah wrote:
aarf wrote:yes that is very likely. But only saluki complains.
I personally consider that to be a feature - not a bug. :)
maybe so but in 6 it was simply very annoying but with default settings in 7 it is unusable. there are many places to look for possible fixes and before you start looking one doesnt know a fix is possible. Perhaps better notification somehow.

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#660 Post by aarf »

Sage wrote:
I am plagued with poor connections and fractured cables
Cables have to be replaced as copper undergoes fracture due to work-hardening. [It helps to use stranded cable where appropriate, and/or stop kicking them!.]
With Molex and similar, it helps to squeeze the receptacle part ( do we have to do this gender sexual thing here?!) together every so often if you constantly pull them out/push them in (glad we didn't go down the M/F route?!).
thing is technicians will refuse to fix the molded cable inputs and so you have to replace the whole appliance. Plug in cables both ends in the original design would solve the cable fracture problem so ask yourself why the manufactures aren't solving a known problem. Its a conspiracy.

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