Puppy 4.2 Deep Thought Development
Thanks for taking the time to make some fun about language correctness... It has plunged down everywhere since the upcoming of spellchecking word processors...
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* Using XVesa at 1280x1024 with Puppy 4.2RC2 on my most recent box (Celeron 2800 on Asrock775i65GV), at startup a grey bar appears at screen top and bottom (pic not "stretched") and the background seems cut in wood, no use restarting X. All icons and windows show normally.
Apparently these problems arise with the most compact backgrounds (they also take more time to be displayed, albeit badly). "Aurora australis" shows up perfectly and quickly -- and is a sure eye-catcher, let's keep it!
Had problems yesterday and today to enter the forum. Others, too?
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* Using XVesa at 1280x1024 with Puppy 4.2RC2 on my most recent box (Celeron 2800 on Asrock775i65GV), at startup a grey bar appears at screen top and bottom (pic not "stretched") and the background seems cut in wood, no use restarting X. All icons and windows show normally.
Apparently these problems arise with the most compact backgrounds (they also take more time to be displayed, albeit badly). "Aurora australis" shows up perfectly and quickly -- and is a sure eye-catcher, let's keep it!
Had problems yesterday and today to enter the forum. Others, too?
Yep. I've PM'd John to see if he can do something about it. I would have emailed him but I've lost his email address since my old laptop crashed.capoverde wrote:Had problems yesterday and today to enter the forum. Others, too?
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You can always use the DeepThought Chat room - I will be there till 11AM GMT
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Deep Thought and default wallpaper
I've been playing around testing various wallpapers to see which ones would give us the best first impression for Puppy-4.2. I have to admit that I have two personal favourites in Zigbert's stardust and deepthought, both of which are tiny. Unfortunately, neither of them looks any good at all in 16-bit colour - they're too pixelated - and the same is true for all of the other very frugal wallpapers developed by the guys on the forum (some as small as 43 bytes!)
I don't believe that, given Puppy's focus on older hardware, we can risk our first impressions on a wallpaper that doesn't look good in 16-bit colour; hence my dilemma. Images, rather than gradient backgrounds or pixel posters, appear to be the best bet. Here are 3 such images that I'm considering. Any thoughts?
Blue-grass - 800x600 40kb
Winter-wheat - 800x600 75kb
Crystal-shore - 800x600 46kb
I don't believe that, given Puppy's focus on older hardware, we can risk our first impressions on a wallpaper that doesn't look good in 16-bit colour; hence my dilemma. Images, rather than gradient backgrounds or pixel posters, appear to be the best bet. Here are 3 such images that I'm considering. Any thoughts?
Blue-grass - 800x600 40kb
Winter-wheat - 800x600 75kb
Crystal-shore - 800x600 46kb
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hey whodo you can get 7000 free wallpapers at http://www.myfreewallpapers.com/abstrac ... pers.shtml
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http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
Does this mean you don't like any of the chosen 3?ttuuxxx wrote:hey whodo you can get 7000 free wallpapers at http://www.myfreewallpapers.com/abstrac ... pers.shtml
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I also thought it was very reminiscent of the things that drive the Australian ethos - sun, sand and sea!Lobster wrote:Ctystal shore could replace the 'depressed datchund' wallpaper.Crystal-shore - 800x600 46kb
It is reminiscent of the 'arctic freeze' default of 4.12 and the seagull. Cheerful and uplifting. Grass is neutral and bland.
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I like the 1st and 3rd wallpaper, probably the 1st one best.
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
The blurred (out of focus) areas are not good in the first one. Might give someone the idea that their monitor is not working (or their eyes are going bad).
I'm not convinced of the other two.
Maybe a beach scene with a tall cold sweating beer on it?
Wait.....maybe that's because I'm in Maine and it's 8 degrees F this morning.
I'm not convinced of the other two.
Maybe a beach scene with a tall cold sweating beer on it?
Wait.....maybe that's because I'm in Maine and it's 8 degrees F this morning.
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Well then you'd be glad that I didn't revert to Barry's iceberg! At least looking at the crystal shore should make you feel warmer, even if you aren't!trapster wrote:I'm not convinced of the other two.
Maybe a beach scene with a tall cold sweating beer on it?
Wait.....maybe that's because I'm in Maine and it's 8 degrees F this morning.
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The ones in the preceding post ARE at 16bits. As for the problematic ones, here they are:zigbert wrote:Would have been nice to see this screenshots when running with 16bits colordepth.
Deepthought 16bit - 800x600
Stardust 16bit - 800x600
g3 16bit - 800x600
They don't look BAD ... exactly ... but they don't look very good either, which is a shame because the 3 posted above are my personal favourites in the frugal wallpapers available when displayed at 24bit colour depth.
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jwm theme?
Hey guys, what do you think about this jwm theme I made:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 667#283667
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 667#283667
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]
Re: jwm theme?
I love the theme, dejan555. Unfortunately the g3 background only looks good at 24bit colour depth (see post above). See if you can find a wallpaper named "nanotek", because I think that would look great with your theme.dejan555 wrote:Hey guys, what do you think about this jwm theme I made:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 667#283667
BTW, this is the Deep Thought Development thread, so really isn't the appropriate place to tout your JWM theme, regardless of how proud of it you are (and rightly so). The JWM themes exchange is more appropriate, but you already knew that. There will be no additions to Deep Thought at this late stage, so maybe you should look at an EZpup-style add-on package in .pet format for your fans?
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OK, I see now that you uploaded RC3, so we're close to final 4.2! And under 100MB, yaaayyyy!
Nanotek?
Nanotek?
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]
Yep. that's the one. Should look really nice with your theme. Try it at 16bits and see if it loses anything.dejan555 wrote:OK, I see now that you uploaded RC3, so we're close to final 4.2! And under 100MB, yaaayyyy!
Nanotek?
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