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#226 Post by jpeps »

01micko wrote: Of course I should have known :) , lets just say that Flash (as in the player :wink: ) is crap... burning issues are another matter, at which I will look more closely tomorrow.

Cheers, Mick
..methinks solution is increasing reliance on alternative browsers (e.g dillo, links). Flash is just one of the problems that come with a mainstream browser, and it's not likely to go away soon..so let's get on with it. (there's nothing blinking in MY browser).

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#227 Post by 01micko »

jpeps wrote:
01micko wrote: Of course I should have known :) , lets just say that Flash (as in the player :wink: ) is crap... burning issues are another matter, at which I will look more closely tomorrow.

Cheers, Mick
..methinks solution is increasing reliance on alternative browsers (e.g dillo, links). Flash is just one of the problems that come with a mainstream browser, and it's not likely to go away soon..so let's get on with it. (there's nothing blinking in MY browser).
Haha! You may like Slacko B3 jpeps.. I booted pfix=ram,nox and managed to connect to my wireless network, download links and post this message. Any noob could do it :) . A bit more testing and I might release B3 soon.

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#228 Post by jpeps »

I like techno's recent dillo compile:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 4&start=51

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#229 Post by 01micko »

dillo eh? Works ok.. I'll put it in PPM

Hope that can entice! :)
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#230 Post by nooby »

Mick wrote:Haha! You may like Slacko B3 jpeps
oops where is the link to that B3 then :) Just kidding.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#231 Post by DaveS »

Gnumeric /17 looks good. No problems so far.
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#232 Post by 01micko »

Thanks for testing gnumeric Dave.

B3 is looking ok after a couple of false starts. I installed fbpanel/openbox and all is well except the top margin is set at around 26/27 pix, guess I shoulda checked :) , hardly a showstopper though.

I set it up so one depends on the other, either way they both download and install (from PPM), not for slickpet though, it's not capable of checking deps yet.

edit 1: so far B3 is all good on eee-701SD :) (usb boot)

edit 2, 3, 4: boots fine on sonny's HP lappy, (time is a luxury on that thing :roll: ), however synaptics is still crap on that one until I run flloopfix, I rolled back to flsynclient-0.6 :? (usb boot)
boots fine on the SiS box, older Athlon 256 RAM.. connects browses.. does what you need (cd boot)
boots fine on the Brookdale box (TY MHHP :wink: ).. (usb boot)

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libgpm

#233 Post by jpeps »

libgpm is needed for apps like vim, so you might want to include it. I copied one from lucid:
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#234 Post by majorfoo »

01micko wrote:Abiword 2.9.1

UUgghhh.. what a mission.. :roll:

Tried Ted, quickly discounted Ted.. it hasn't been developed in over 2 years so isn't compatible with the newer gtk/gdk/cairo/png libs. I got it to run, too many critical errors, plus it only opens .rtf.

Now abiword seems to depend on boost c++ libraries. There is a configure option "--with-boost=no" but it seems boost is now part of the core of abiword.. So with that I compiled the opendocument plugin which requires boost anyway. I did this very fastidiously! Every error in make I added only the required part of boost, it's still a 15M installed package (better than over 100M :roll: :o :shock: ).. thankfully none of the shared libs are needed so this is only a requirement for the devx, I got the compressed size down to under 1M. Yes, all this for a second rate WP. There is no real alternative considering size. As far as my testing goes, it opens .rtf, .doc, .odt, .abw that's all I use, and I don't use abiword anyway.

Here it is..

Abiword 2.7M
found minor problem when tried to run abiword. It would not open from desktop icon. There is no defined defaultwordprocessor in /usr/local/bin Once I added this, it worked great
Notice you have fixed this in Slacko B3

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