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davesurrey · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 1201 Location: UK

Hmmm....for the second time in 12 hours I have posted to this thread and then my post has disappeared. Very strange and never had this before. Oh well, here goes again.

davesurrey · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 1201 Location: UK

And again...before I have to leave for the weekend....

1. I tend to agree with OlddogNewtricks in that I like a nice simple taskbar. No need for a (small) analogue clock there. I much prefer a digital one anyway with date display. And prefer to launch FF from the left side near Menu as separate (larger) icon. Just my opinion.

2. Yes, perhaps BMP needs a better looking skin as default.

3. I used to have Sherman's Aquarium (or lagoon as I seem to remember it being called) some years ago as a screensaver. Liked it then as it was fun but got tired of it eventually. Not sure what this very small applet is supposed to do however?

Cheers
Dave

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 01 Aug 2009, 05:30 Post subject:

Minnesota · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 312

ttuuxxx: Like the new digital clock.. especially if it contrasts the other items by the old clock.. your all blue items blend together.. need some separation. Can the digital clock color be user changed? Neon green is kind of ??? Bright? Does look like fun to play with. OF course I could ask for ... move mouse over and get the Puppy Version displayed Smile

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Speaking of fun.. can the games.. bubblet and gems be ported to version 4? Terrible time wasters, but fun. Since you are inside the aquarium..can you tell how it was created.. different small items or simply different png or jpg frames? Always been curious.

davesurrey, Trust your mother feels better!

ttuuxxx

OlddogNewtricks · Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Posts: 124 Location: U.K.

Dougal created amongst other media stuff 18 dotpets of XMMS skins(compatible with bmp) & also included jpegs so you can view each one before you download. Find them here http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Multimedia/xmms-1.2.10-by-Dougal/

These however install to /usr/local/share/xmms/Skins & not to /usr/share/bmp/skins where we want them, so you will have to manually move the zip or tar.gz file(no need to extract).

Heres my favourite.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 01 Aug 2009, 09:20 Post subject:

That digital clock from above is really fun to play with, and you can change the colours in .jwmrc-tray. here's a list of features, you just hover over the clock to use them Smile

r -- toggle reverse video
s -- toggle seconds display
b -- toggle the bell to ring on half hours
j -- toggle jump or smooth scrolling
d -- toggle date string display
m -- toggle military (24hr) time format
a -- toggle the alarm clock
f -- toggle fade
: -- toggle blinking of the colon
/ -- increase angle of digits
\ -- decrease angle of digits
+ -- increase thickness of digit segments
- -- decrease thickness of digit segments
> -- increase spacing between digits
< -- decrease spacing between digits
q -- quit

ttuuxxx

Minnesota · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 312

ttuuxxx:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 01 Aug 2009, 10:01 Post subject:

ok here's with the digital clock, Its still small, and very easy to change from 12hr to 24hr format by pressing the "m" button Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 01 Aug 2009, 10:17 Post subject:

ok here's 6 different clocks/system monitors to play around with, lol
ttuuxxx

sinc · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 523 Location: Tampa, FL USA

i am way over my head here so I hope my small posts aren't too distracting but thanks I am having fun being a part of the conversation.
I agree with all the posts that vote for a clean task bar with a firefox icon next to the launch menu. as a newbie having cpu usage info in the taskbar wouldn't mean anything to me.
i do like the new digital clock and the blue colors.

also in your last reply to me you mentioned that you prefer parcellite as a clipboard manager and that it is smaller in size than glipper. since you think its better why have you not put that one in instead of glipper? just wondering.

i really like the rutilt wlan manager. is there anyway to get to launch on startup and have it manage my wireless connection without having to go open it everytime?
thanks

and am i the only one that cares that i can't move the lock icon off of the right side of the screen? well, it'll move but after a restart of the wm it goes back to the right. i guess it doesn't bother anyone else. oh well.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 01 Aug 2009, 15:43 Post subject:

sinc · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 523 Location: Tampa, FL USA

please don't feel obligated to permanently move it for me, it is just somehting i have noticed that doesn't seem right. it seems like a bug that i can't move that 1 icon. i have a frugal install and it must be saving b/c I can move every icon on my screen and when I reboot they will all be where i moved them to except the lock icon right justifies (and the drive icons, of course). here is a picture of how i set my screen up every time after i reboot. b/c the lock icon moves on top of my trash. i know i could just switch the trash and lock icons and who cares but it seems like this should be an easy fix all the other icons don't do this (what do I know though).

any comment about why not parcellite?

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 01 Aug 2009, 16:18 Post subject:

The reason why I haven't bothered changing to parcellite is because, well most puppy distro's don't have the extra clipboard on by default, where as this one luckily it does, I only found out about parcellite during the 4.2 build and I quickly compiled it and made it autostart with icewm Smile

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But I just haven't got around to compile/install it yet Smile

I'll try to remember it for the next release.
still thinking about your wireless issues.
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 01 Aug 2009, 16:24 Post subject:

ok the icon has been moved for the next release next to the recycle box.
ttuuxxx