Minor probs Alpha7
Posted: Tue 11 Mar 2008, 05:15
Hi,
Have just encountered a couple of minor bugs on Alpha7 of Dingo.
Apologies if they have already been reported and fixed.
1. All the icons in Fotox are the same, that is a sheet of paper with a red "X" within.
Also clicking on an image file opens mtpaint as the default. Perhaps better to open Fotox (or another image viewer) instead, as I think most users would be just viewing the image rather than wanting to edit it. I do anyway, but is a question of choice.
Using jpg image as test and clicking "Open with", shows Gview but this only allows 1 image at a time whereas fotox allows index and slide show.
Run action can be set to fotox "$1" to force, but perhaps s/be default.
2. Time is set to Perth local time and needs to be manually changed to ... in my case to Sydney time. Previous versions did this automatically, and catered for daylight saving, although I can't remember which ones.
3. When a web page is open in Seamonkey and File...Print Preview is activated, the web page is closed and Seamonkey is shut down. This also happened in Alpha6.
4. Pmount will not recognise my 4th USB stick (vfat). The hardware check shows that it is there and correctly identifies it, but in pmount it does not show up. Therefore can't mount it. I remember in previous versions of Puppy MUT would always recognise my drives and sticks, but pmount always left one out.
BTW, my 4th usb stick is attached to a 4 port hub into which I also have plugged an external HDD, a voip phone and a logitech camera.
System properties identifies the USB to IDE HDD, the camera and the phone and the USB stick. Pmount also does not show my external HDD so it can't be mounted. This drive has it's own on/off switch so maybe it needs to be switched on before loading Puppy. Clicking refresh makes no difference. The drive is an NTFS partition as is my main drive which I can mount no problem.
5. Feel Gxine is better than xine, for me anyway, but it has a habit of hanging my machine requiring a reboot. Ctrl..Alt..Bspace or Ctrl X failed to recover control. Happened when clicking on a web based TV show in the menu's.
6. When shutting down, no option is available to remove the disc. It just closes. Just irritating that's all particularly when I wish to boot into XP at next startup. Have to be quick to get disc out before too far into the boot.
And lastly, in my case, changing the citrus theme back to the default results in a much snappier machine.
Hope some of the above will be of interest. This latest version is the best so far and is looking to be a excellent substitute for win.
Cheers,
RC
Have just encountered a couple of minor bugs on Alpha7 of Dingo.
Apologies if they have already been reported and fixed.
1. All the icons in Fotox are the same, that is a sheet of paper with a red "X" within.
Also clicking on an image file opens mtpaint as the default. Perhaps better to open Fotox (or another image viewer) instead, as I think most users would be just viewing the image rather than wanting to edit it. I do anyway, but is a question of choice.
Using jpg image as test and clicking "Open with", shows Gview but this only allows 1 image at a time whereas fotox allows index and slide show.
Run action can be set to fotox "$1" to force, but perhaps s/be default.
2. Time is set to Perth local time and needs to be manually changed to ... in my case to Sydney time. Previous versions did this automatically, and catered for daylight saving, although I can't remember which ones.
3. When a web page is open in Seamonkey and File...Print Preview is activated, the web page is closed and Seamonkey is shut down. This also happened in Alpha6.
4. Pmount will not recognise my 4th USB stick (vfat). The hardware check shows that it is there and correctly identifies it, but in pmount it does not show up. Therefore can't mount it. I remember in previous versions of Puppy MUT would always recognise my drives and sticks, but pmount always left one out.
BTW, my 4th usb stick is attached to a 4 port hub into which I also have plugged an external HDD, a voip phone and a logitech camera.
System properties identifies the USB to IDE HDD, the camera and the phone and the USB stick. Pmount also does not show my external HDD so it can't be mounted. This drive has it's own on/off switch so maybe it needs to be switched on before loading Puppy. Clicking refresh makes no difference. The drive is an NTFS partition as is my main drive which I can mount no problem.
5. Feel Gxine is better than xine, for me anyway, but it has a habit of hanging my machine requiring a reboot. Ctrl..Alt..Bspace or Ctrl X failed to recover control. Happened when clicking on a web based TV show in the menu's.
6. When shutting down, no option is available to remove the disc. It just closes. Just irritating that's all particularly when I wish to boot into XP at next startup. Have to be quick to get disc out before too far into the boot.
And lastly, in my case, changing the citrus theme back to the default results in a much snappier machine.
Hope some of the above will be of interest. This latest version is the best so far and is looking to be a excellent substitute for win.
Cheers,
RC