Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

capoverde · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 04:13 Post subject:

Thanks for taking the time to make some fun about language correctness... It has plunged down everywhere since the upcoming of spellchecking word processors...

Will try to locate all "un-English" files. Twisted Evil

* 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?

WhoDo · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 04:21 Post subject:

Lobster · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 04:29 Post subject:

You can always use the DeepThought Chat room - I will be there till 11AM GMT

http://www.chatmaker.net/chatap/rooms/DeepThought/

WhoDo

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

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 13 Mar 2009, 00:36 Post subject:

hey whodo you can get 7000 free wallpapers at http://www.myfreewallpapers.com/abstract/abstract-wallpapers.shtml
ttuuxxx

WhoDo · Posted: Fri 13 Mar 2009, 01:37 Post subject:

Lobster · Posted: Fri 13 Mar 2009, 01:48 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

echo (lobster's comment) Smile

Did you gimpify (or mtpaint Wink

) Jeba's clock? I like it.

WhoDo · Posted: Fri 13 Mar 2009, 02:10 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 13 Mar 2009, 03:00 Post subject:

I like the 1st and 3rd wallpaper, probably the 1st one best.
ttuuxxx

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

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.

WhoDo · Posted: Fri 13 Mar 2009, 07:09 Post subject:

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

WhoDo
Thanks for asking!
I prefer the shore, & agree with your 'reminds....' comment
But by all means go with the majority
What screen is the CatDude bootgui having? - [remember that?]
Should be nice too, eh?

Aitch Smile

WhoDo · Posted: Fri 13 Mar 2009, 08:22 Post subject:

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Would have been nice to see this screenshots when running with 16bits colordepth.

Sigmund