Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[ttuuxxx]

hi guys as 4.3.2 goes I figured I'll toss something out and see the reaction, it was pretty good, So I gave it a 2 weeks or so to get enough feedback so I would have a good grasp where to go with it, maybe tomorrow I'll revisit it
I really just wanted to buy some time for Barry and 5 series and maybe 4.4, I'm not trying to take over 4 series, I have enough things already with my own projects, Plus I was more partial towards 2,3 series and have big hopes for 5 series, 4 series dumped gtk1.2, tcl/tk and well I always liked some gtk 1.2, tcl/tk apps better than gtk2 series, like the wallpaper setter, bubbles, gemgame. But really the wallpaper setter could probably be ported to gtk2 and added widescreen support, plus if gweled was gnome deps reduced that would cure most of issues I have with 4 series.
I don't like dark themes on jwm, Icewm handled them much better, personally I think all menu icons should be 24x24.

ttuuxxx

[FlyingRedGoat]

[kkoceski]

Hi again. I'm the lame dude that can't figure out wireless on the Dell Latitude E6500. I realized I only complained, and didn't applaud this great OS. Please let me fix that by saying thanks !!!

I got wireless to work, but only by using an external USB dongle. And another thing about that dongle is that it only works if you boot up with it in - if you try to plug it in after boot, it won't work.

[technosaurus]

@zigbert - Thanks, I have added dude-0.2 and the most recent P* programs as of Friday evening.

I highly recommend installing dude-0.2, since it will fix my oops and also for testing because it will be in the next build. I have, and it is working well... not sure if it is dependent on seamonkey though (it is a default favorite)...because

I'd really like to do a firefox build soon, since more sites work with it and it will save enough space to add a smaller browser for low end machines ....probably dillo or netsurf (however seamonkey-1.1.19 will probably be the alternative)

Not seamonkey2 because it still has many issues... instead
Firefox+Sypheed-3.x+Abiword-2.8.x+Osmo
(browser,mail,web-editor,calendar)

I had trouble with https sites in Midori, if that gets worked out it is a nice webkit based alternative to Firefox

Geany
I am surprised nobody has said anything about the change in geany's layout or the jwm "notitle" that makes geany's top bar go away (I will probably remove that part because it gets in the way of searches unless you Alt+drag the search window). It was just a little experiment with maximizing screen real estate for smaller/wide screens.... small icons only on the same line as the menu, tabs to the left, etc... It did show a bug in geany though... with tabs to the left the vertical line at position 79 (by default) is off - it may be ok on the right though?

@ kkoceski aka "DELL DUDE".... can post mymods.gz after running in a working version and a non-working version of Puppy 4.X

[jpeps]

[OldYogi]

This new version looks great; the changes in pcc look good, the pcc/desktop/trays button works; and the icons in the add icons tray seem to no longer be dropped.

But, this new version fails to find my Broadcom wireless; whereas 4.3-2 pre alpha found it immediately. For wireless this version seems to have dropped back to 4.31, which could not find the Broadcom either.

What changed?

[technosaurus]

I started with a woof build this time and missed some pets from the forum Will do some work on drivers for the next build to add more wireless drivers (In addition to adding an a full zdrv sfs) If you know of a pet for a specific driver though please post it just in case I can't find them.

I like seamonkey's editor as well... have been using it since netscape composer days back in the mid 90s, but just as an exercise I sat down to try writing a web page in abiword-2.8.2 and was pretty impressed with the results (gui only manual remaster howto). I did miss the quick browser preview capability, but it had the added benefit of being able to export to many different formats that seamonkey cannot and it has a grammar plugin and many others.

Composer is a good tool, but Abiword has come a long way since the 2.6 series where only png images were supported and now it is hard to beat for creating a quick and easy web page (even for a composer user like me, but especially for a new user). If you haven't tried it, I would suggest giving it a whirl sometime.

[01micko]

techno

DuDE-0.1 was (partially) dependent on SM but DuDE-0.2 is not, I tried it on lupu-111 yesterday and it seemed just fine, I made a midori menu icon too and that shows up in DuDe's favourites too.

Go for the FF build

Cheers

[DaveS]

Which browser to include will always be a thorny question. It is probably the most used piece of software on a home pc right now. I guess ultimately Firefox is the way to go because it is fast becoming the industry standard, and because there are so many add-ons. I find it renders difficult sites well too.
Cant please everyone with this though

[technosaurus]

[ttuuxxx]

Why not use claws mail? The last time I compiled it came with better features/plugins than sylpheed, claws-mail-3.7.0 is the last release that doesn't use gnutils and newer release does which would add a lot more weight to the distro. Does html links open in sylpheed? Claws it works.
Also I'm 100% for Firefox as long that it scrolls smoothly, That was a issue with it and 4 series, if you went to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox and scrolled up and down there was a lot of lag. I think it was the version of Xorg.
ttuuxxx

[DaveS]

[DaveS]

Firefox will need dbus of course.

[01micko]

I compiled namarooka (FF 3.6alpha/beta codename) awhile ago, back when BK was having trouble with a bug in unionfs (4.3 beta?) without dbus and it worked fine, even when FF3.5X wouldn't work with the unionfs bug. All the Seamonkey 2X compiles I did have been without dbus, no major complaints,

Cheers

[DaveS]