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Ray MK wrote:Hi Jemimah
Viewnoir would be handy to have either in the repo or built in.
Same for gatotray-2.pet.

Viewnoir is in the "common" repo. I can build a new one if it's outdated. Let me know

Gatotray would be no problem, but there are a large number of xfce panel applets that do similar things and might be nicer. Also check out the nifty Psensor applet I just uploaded.
http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/

EDIT: Ok, I've uploaded gatotray.

New pets:
smartmontools
handbrake
psensor
cryptkeeper
ddrescue
safecopy
tuxpaint

New sfs
Google webfonts

tuxpaint

worked but did not close.
I seem to remember more stamps?

Globe working well

I've never gotten the floppy icon. I'll turn it off.

We did the FDD discussions many times, perhaps the last time whilst you were away?
M$ & the DellWintel cartel would like you to believe it's obsolete. Far from it - very much alive and kicking. Essential , inter alia, for BIOS recovery/update. Use it daily. Puppy is all about resurrecting kit! The general concensus on this Forum is to leave FD0 IN and displayed. Lob. or Aitch will probably come up with the reference...

jemimah wrote:New pets:
smartmontools
handbrake
psensor
cryptkeeper
ddrescue
safecopy
tuxpaint

New sfs
Google webfonts

you are busy and i like it but could you do me a big favor. some / many of the pets you are adding here i have noe clue what they are. so adding a descripton line after cryptkeeper etc. would be nice i know you have done this in the PPM but it would be nice to have it in this thread.

for now ill stick to my "little" friend google

Best Regards

Einar

woof woof

mhwaveedit
and audacity working
You need to click on the speaker icon bottom right
and add mic capture, mic boost and things of that ilk to record

Audacity is notoriously temperamental so pleased with that

jemimah wrote:

Ray MK wrote:Hi Jemimah
Viewnoir would be handy to have either in the repo or built in.
Same for gatotray-2.pet.

Viewnoir is in the "common" repo. I can build a new one if it's outdated. Let me know

Gatotray would be no problem, but there are a large number of xfce panel applets that do similar things and might be nicer. Also check out the nifty Psensor applet I just uploaded.
http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/

EDIT: Ok, I've uploaded gatotray.

Im using Viewnoir but i still think its to slow. I think GPicView is a faster image viewer. http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/
Gwenview is also cool but thats only for KDE4 ? and is it possible to request GPicView and maybe google chrome ?

best regards

Einar

Haha i just run the linux native spotify client. the windows one under wine was very buggy and crashed every time i opened a big playlist.

now what you need is qt-4.8.0.pet and qt-webkit-4.8.0.pet installed.
then go to http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/ and
download the spotify-client-qt_0.6.6.10.gbd39032.58-1_i386.deb

Double click ( petget ) and it installes and makes a icon under multimedia.

Have to credit STU90 for this tip i didnt try before today

I am in heaven

Best regards

Einar

einar wrote:

jemimah wrote:

Ray MK wrote:Hi Jemimah
Viewnoir would be handy to have either in the repo or built in.
Same for gatotray-2.pet.

Viewnoir is in the "common" repo. I can build a new one if it's outdated. Let me know

Gatotray would be no problem, but there are a large number of xfce panel applets that do similar things and might be nicer. Also check out the nifty Psensor applet I just uploaded.
http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/

EDIT: Ok, I've uploaded gatotray.

Im using Viewnoir but i still think its to slow. I think GPicView is a faster image viewer. http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/
Gwenview is also cool but thats only for KDE4 ? and is it possible to request GPicView and maybe google chrome ?

best regards

Einar

AFAIK Chrome/Chromium/Iron, do not have any portable builds available for download. They are all built against a glibc that is too new. Compiling Chrome from source is too big of a hassle even for me (source code is like 1GB and build system is not at all puppy friendly).

I'll add gpicview today probably.

EDIT: OK I thought of something regarding chrome. I might be able to pull it off.

Chrome would be cool. I've been using Opera as an alternative to Midori due to Midori instability issues, but I'd much rather have Chrome. Hope your idea works. That would be sweet.

Ouch - sorry - post deleted

Actually I think iron is kind of evil. The idea of someone trying to profit by spreading FUD creeps me out.

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/ ... /iron.html
http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam

Newly added to the repository - bcrypt http://www.smokey01.com/saluki/pet_pack ... pt-1.1.pet and breakout http://www.smokey01.com/saluki/pet_pack ... -2.6.3.pet

Jemimah,
Saluki looks pretty good at this point.
What else do you plan to get it out of beta?
Beef up the repo?
Some other new feature?
More polishing?
Just wondering...

Well, I still need to make an adrive builder.
And I want to update the kernel before the release.
I have my eye on some enhancements for sfs-loader and pupdial as well.

I think that's it besides any additional bugs you guys find.

You go girl! - God, I really do hate that saying. I must be getting old....

An adrive GUI that is actually usable (assuming it'd be GUI driven), and one that is intuitive and user friendly (for both Linux/windows users) would be revolutionary. It'd revolutionize puppy Linux as we know it. It'd effectively obsolete woof (for this fork, anyway. But for future forks, too, if they choose to use this design, and bad on them if they didn't). Seriously, we can't even calculate the possibilities that the proposed adrive concept adds to the equation. The potential is a serious brain--f_uck. In actuality, this is a significant development, not only ti Linux, and specifically, puppy Linux, but in computing in general. Jemimah has created a model, for open source, that should be much admired. Highly compressed, easily modified, and, if she can get a GUI up an running, simple to use and easily modified by the end user. What more could you ask for?

Well it won't make woof obsolete. You won't be able to update the core, or the kernel with it. You'd still be stuck with xfce.

But it should make it very easy to change up the applications without the complexity of woof or the pitfalls of a remaster.

Alright, fair enough; too much enthusiasm...but even so, it'd be revolutionary. It'd take puppy to the masses. If one could take a minimal build, and add to it whatever they want,or don't want (maybe then just want a simple small frugal install for rescue (ala catman), terminal based...who knows...ask them...) regardless of the window manager (you can always add a window manager so long as xfce4 is not too hard coded into everything..) .and disregard whatever they don't want...in an easy, intuitive, user friendly way, this would be a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10. How could it not be? That's what I desire in a distro The only thing that would make it better is to create a package manager that would natively install slacko/debian repository apps with one click. Seriously, Jemimah, excluding a new Linux core/testing (which/obviously would take some testing), what else would improve upon Saluki? The adrive concept is in-of-itself revolutionary, whether you want to be humble and not acknowledge it or not. It's brilliant. It's what keeps me interested, and if that's the case for me, than that's probably the case for others, too.

jemimah wrote: You'd still be stuck with xfce.

It is actually a pity that JWM is not fully functional in Saluki, because looks like it needs so little additional attention to work fine and can offer true saluki speed.
Just needs 3 lines in .jwmrc to add the desktop background, a tmount tray applet, a little editing in *.desktop file categories so can all be picked up by JWM menu and Thunar to play nice with it (eg show file/folder icons - BTW ttuuxxx's thunar works fine).
You want to make it fancy? add a 2nd application tray on the top

Techno is even making a GUI tool for JWM settings to make life easy without the need of manual file editing.

Maybe it could squeeze somewhere in your todo list...

Many of the control panel items will not work unless xfce is running. I have no intention of trying to make saluki work with other window managers. There are plenty of jwm puplets to choose from.