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WhoDo

I have just uploaded the third and final Release Candidate for Puppy 4.2 Deep Thought with Seamonkey and Claws mail. There are no major issues remaining to be resolved, having settled the CUPS printing issues and the wireless networking problems:

Known issues:

1. The Pwidgets Clock-analog plugin doesn't use the hands colours of dark or light, only the theme.
See the Pwidgets thread (top of p105) for an easy fix.
2. I still haven't set /usr/share/doc/home.html as the default home page for Seamonkey. It's there and contains the link to the puppy web portal but you'll need to add it manually to test.
3. Localisation appears to have introduced a bug to PETget.
Please use attached dotpet to overwrite the buggy version and report.

New applications include Pwidgets (2.0) and RemaX-4.20 (Remaster Express). This release has been mostly about squashing niggling minor bugs, polishing and adding some minor changes to usability.

Coolpup has continued to submit back-end updates as have aragon and ttuuxxx. The localisation team including esmourgit and droope have continued to supply localised scripts. Zigbert, trio, 01micko and tasmod are still churning out new versions of Pwidgets. Lobster and ecomoney are working on publicity. Pizzasgood, Dougal, Patriot, rerwin and MU are working behind the scenes supporting various parts of the program. All have my sincere thanks, along with the myriad of willing testers, for their support of the project.

NOTE: All mirrors now require login - UserID = puppy, Password = linux

Mirrors:
1. http://puppyisos.org/isos/2009-01-to-06/4.2-rc3/
2. http://www.pkagfiles.net/puppy-test/
3. http://www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/test/

If the mirrors don't show the new release yet it's probably because the admins haven't had time to move the files to the download area ... try again later.

This release is 99.92Mb, including RemaX, so we are within our target weight for the final release. RemaX weighed in at a hefty 26kb ... well done, pa!

Enjoy!

trio · Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009, 02:32 Post_subject:

Yeah Whodo my man!

capoverde · Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009, 03:51 Post_subject:

While Puppy 4.2RC3 is downloading, here's a (temporary) list of files with the wording "take affect":

/usr/sbin/eventmanager (2 instances)
/usr/local/jwmconfig2/jwmConfigMgr (1 instance)
/usr/local/jwmconfig2/taskbar (1 instance)
/usr/sbin/set-xftdpi.glade (1 instance)

Cheers!

Lobster · Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009, 04:41 Post_subject:

Remaster Express looks very interesting
and many of us will be pleased to use that
in the final release.
Anyone testing it let us know how you get on Smile

On my screen lock and zip appeared a third up the screen
this is at 1280*1024
Barry had this problem at some point and I do not remember what the solution was - anyone?
Easy enough to move of course

Was very easy to stop pwidgets
(many will enjoy pwidgets)
not my thing - personal choice Smile

Well done everyone Smile

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7331 Location: qld

Thanks WhoDo!

Wireless fine now! Easy 10 second setup... Cool

Cheers

capoverde · Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009, 09:32 Post_subject:

Tried to install XNetLoad with the usual PET Package Manager, but nothing happened. Tried to install other apps, no matter from what section, same result... What's the matter here? Worked fine before Sad

(Reaching the forum is getting every time harder -- now only about 1 try out of 8 randomly works).

trio · Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009, 09:34 Post_subject:

whodo

1. yes, I can't install any pets too --> edit: after manual installation of above petget.pet -- ok now
2. I am sure now that you haven't put jwm fix (as in jwm theme_swicther) in gtk2jwm .. fresh install no pup_save when I looked inside it...

Thanks

pa_mcclamrock

WhoDo · Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009, 09:36 Post_subject:

WhoDo

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009, 09:45 Post_subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009, 09:45 Post_subject:

trio · Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009, 09:49 Post_subject:

whodo

here it is:

/usr/local/jwmconfig2/gtk2jwm (start line 178)

lineNumber=`expr $linenumber`
lineNumber2=`expr $linenumber2`

#Zigbert added this, because maybe somebody forgot to put
blinkyline="blinkydelayed -bg \"$BackgroundColor\""
xloadline=" xload -nolabel -fg red -hl white -bg \"$IndentedBackgroundColor\""

#fixed by hairywill 20-01-09 handle case where linenumber/2 is zero
[ ! "$lineNumber" = 0 ] && sed -ie "$lineNumber"d $TrayFile && sed -ie "$lineNumber"i"$blinkyline" $TrayFile
[ ! "$lineNumber2" = 0 ] && sed -ie "$lineNumber2"d $TrayFile && sed -ie "$lineNumber2"i"$xloadline" $TrayFile
#sed -e "$lineNumber"i"$blinkyline" -e "$lineNumber"d -e "$lineNumber2"i"$xloadline" -e "$lineNumber2"d $TrayFileBak > $TrayFile
#end John Doe's code.
########

#Trio-this to make absvolume follows theme without reboot
if [ -f /usr/bin/absvolume ];then
if [ "$MENU_BG" = "" ];then
killall absvolume
absvolume &
else
killall absvolume
absvolume -bg $MENU_BG &
fi
fi

########

sync
pidof jwm >/dev/null && jwm -restart

Thanks

pa_mcclamrock

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1976 Location: Maine, USA

We have a new release that cannot install a .pet ??