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Lobster · #1221 Post by **Lobster** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 11:18

woof woof

mhwaveedit
and audacity working
You need to click on the speaker icon bottom right
and add mic capture, mic boost and things of that ilk to record

Audacity is notoriously temperamental so pleased with that

einar · #1222 Post by **einar** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:51

jemimah wrote:
Ray MK wrote:Hi Jemimah
Viewnoir would be handy to have either in the repo or built in.
Same for gatotray-2.pet.
Viewnoir is in the "common" repo. I can build a new one if it's outdated. Let me know

Gatotray would be no problem, but there are a large number of xfce panel applets that do similar things and might be nicer. Also check out the nifty Psensor applet I just uploaded.
http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/

EDIT: Ok, I've uploaded gatotray.

Im using Viewnoir but i still think its to slow. I think GPicView is a faster image viewer. http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/
Gwenview is also cool but thats only for KDE4 ? and is it possible to request GPicView and maybe google chrome ?

best regards

Einar

einar · #1223 Post by **einar** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:41

Haha

i just run the linux native spotify client. the windows one under wine was very buggy and crashed every time i opened a big playlist.

now what you need is qt-4.8.0.pet and qt-webkit-4.8.0.pet installed.
then go to http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/ and
download the spotify-client-qt_0.6.6.10.gbd39032.58-1_i386.deb

Double click ( petget ) and it installes and makes a icon under multimedia.

Have to credit STU90 for this tip i didnt try before today

I am in heaven

Best regards

Einar

jemimah · #1224 Post by **jemimah** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 16:27

einar wrote:
jemimah wrote:
Ray MK wrote:Hi Jemimah
Viewnoir would be handy to have either in the repo or built in.
Same for gatotray-2.pet.
Viewnoir is in the "common" repo. I can build a new one if it's outdated. Let me know

Gatotray would be no problem, but there are a large number of xfce panel applets that do similar things and might be nicer. Also check out the nifty Psensor applet I just uploaded.
http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/

EDIT: Ok, I've uploaded gatotray.

Im using Viewnoir but i still think its to slow. I think GPicView is a faster image viewer. http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/
Gwenview is also cool but thats only for KDE4 ? and is it possible to request GPicView and maybe google chrome ?

best regards

Einar

AFAIK Chrome/Chromium/Iron, do not have any portable builds available for download. They are all built against a glibc that is too new. Compiling Chrome from source is too big of a hassle even for me (source code is like 1GB and build system is not at all puppy friendly).

I'll add gpicview today probably.

EDIT: OK I thought of something regarding chrome. I might be able to pull it off.

elroy · #1225 Post by **elroy** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 17:22

Chrome would be cool. I've been using Opera as an alternative to Midori due to Midori instability issues, but I'd much rather have Chrome. Hope your idea works. That would be sweet.

peebee · #1226 Post by **peebee** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 18:28

Ouch - sorry - post deleted

jemimah · #1227 Post by **jemimah** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 18:46

Actually I think iron is kind of evil. The idea of someone trying to profit by spreading FUD creeps me out.

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/ ... /iron.html
http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam

elroy · #1228 Post by **elroy** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 19:03

Newly added to the repository - bcrypt http://www.smokey01.com/saluki/pet_pack ... pt-1.1.pet and breakout http://www.smokey01.com/saluki/pet_pack ... -2.6.3.pet

mavrothal · #1229 Post by **mavrothal** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 19:11

Jemimah,
Saluki looks pretty good at this point.
What else do you plan to get it out of beta?
Beef up the repo?
Some other new feature?
More polishing?
Just wondering...

jemimah · #1230 Post by **jemimah** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 19:16

Well, I still need to make an adrive builder.
And I want to update the kernel before the release.
I have my eye on some enhancements for sfs-loader and pupdial as well.

I think that's it besides any additional bugs you guys find.

elroy · #1231 Post by **elroy** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 19:42

You go girl! - God, I really do hate that saying. I must be getting old....

An adrive GUI that is actually usable (assuming it'd be GUI driven), and one that is intuitive and user friendly (for both Linux/windows users) would be revolutionary. It'd revolutionize puppy Linux as we know it. It'd effectively obsolete woof (for this fork, anyway. But for future forks, too, if they choose to use this design, and bad on them if they didn't). Seriously, we can't even calculate the possibilities that the proposed adrive concept adds to the equation. The potential is a serious brain--f_uck. In actuality, this is a significant development, not only ti Linux, and specifically, puppy Linux, but in computing in general. Jemimah has created a model, for open source, that should be much admired. Highly compressed, easily modified, and, if she can get a GUI up an running, simple to use and easily modified by the end user. What more could you ask for?

jemimah · #1232 Post by **jemimah** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 19:51

Well it won't make woof obsolete. You won't be able to update the core, or the kernel with it. You'd still be stuck with xfce.

But it should make it very easy to change up the applications without the complexity of woof or the pitfalls of a remaster.

elroy · #1233 Post by **elroy** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 20:29

Alright, fair enough; too much enthusiasm...but even so, it'd be revolutionary. It'd take puppy to the masses. If one could take a minimal build, and add to it whatever they want,or don't want (maybe then just want a simple small frugal install for rescue (ala catman), terminal based...who knows...ask them...) regardless of the window manager (you can always add a window manager so long as xfce4 is not too hard coded into everything..) .and disregard whatever they don't want...in an easy, intuitive, user friendly way, this would be a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10. How could it not be? That's what I desire in a distro The only thing that would make it better is to create a package manager that would natively install slacko/debian repository apps with one click. Seriously, Jemimah, excluding a new Linux core/testing (which/obviously would take some testing), what else would improve upon Saluki? The adrive concept is in-of-itself revolutionary, whether you want to be humble and not acknowledge it or not. It's brilliant. It's what keeps me interested, and if that's the case for me, than that's probably the case for others, too.

mavrothal · #1234 Post by **mavrothal** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 21:53

jemimah wrote: You'd still be stuck with xfce.

It is actually a pity that JWM is not fully functional in Saluki, because looks like it needs so little additional attention to work fine and can offer true saluki speed.
Just needs 3 lines in .jwmrc to add the desktop background, a tmount tray applet, a little editing in *.desktop file categories so can all be picked up by JWM menu and Thunar to play nice with it (eg show file/folder icons - BTW ttuuxxx's thunar works fine).
You want to make it fancy? add a 2nd application tray on the top

Techno is even making a GUI tool for JWM settings to make life easy without the need of manual file editing.

Maybe it could squeeze somewhere in your todo list...

jemimah · #1235 Post by **jemimah** » Thu 23 Feb 2012, 22:10

Many of the control panel items will not work unless xfce is running. I have no intention of trying to make saluki work with other window managers. There are plenty of jwm puplets to choose from.

mikeslr · #1236 Post by **mikeslr** » Fri 24 Feb 2012, 04:39

Hi jemimah & all,

Can xfce's first panel be moved to the top? Maybe I missed how to? I know a second panel can be created and moved to the top, but in the second panel the "notification" plugin is grayed out. Or is "notification" something other than the "gauges" currently found on the bottom-right? [Excluding the partition mount app which I figured out, and the clock for which there's specific provision for adding].
The reason I ask is that I have in mind seeing how Saluki plays on an Asus 701SD where (a) screen space is limited and Xfce's ability to hide panels would be valuable; and (b) I've always had trouble using its touch-pad. My attempts to start an app by clicking a desktop icon frequently results in my just moving the icon someplace else. So having the most frequently used apps on a panel seems like a solution.

mikesLr

Ray MK · #1237 Post by **Ray MK** » Fri 24 Feb 2012, 05:31

Hi mikeslr

Menu / Control Panel / desktop / panel

HTH - best regards - Ray

mavrothal · #1238 Post by **mavrothal** » Fri 24 Feb 2012, 05:53

jemimah wrote:Many of the control panel items will not work unless xfce is running.

Many, is the following 3 (when only the base is installed) Xfwm settings and tweaks and Xfce panel preference

jemimah wrote:I have no intention of trying to make saluki work with other window managers. There are plenty of jwm puplets to choose from.

You said that before and I find it quite agreeable.

What I'm saying really is to remove the show-stoppers for JWM so if someone wants to manually force its use it can do it without a lot of hassle but with the understanding that is on her/his own on that.

Thunar is the bigger show-stopper in my mind.
The "%F" option in desktop files that JWM does not understand and the categories could be mended by the user if needed, while adding few lines in _root_.jwmrc is really trivial.

Anyway, is your baby.
Any pointers on Thunar?...

mikeslr · #1239 Post by **mikeslr** » Fri 24 Feb 2012, 06:20

Hi Jemimah, Ray MK & All,

After my post a couple posts back it occurred to me that Saluki, being for "more powerful" computers, might not be so great on my Asus 701SD. So I moved the puppy boot files on an 8gb USB Key into a directory, copied Saluki's boot files onto it, plugged it into the 701SD and booted. Had to run xorgwizard but otherwise had no problem getting to desktop. I've only tested a couple programs, the one's I'm likely to use while traveling. Abiword ran reasonably quickly. Opera ran well, but youtube under it was a little choppy. Mini-TV was a pleasure. FBreader seemed fine. Tomorrow I'll try Calibre. If it runs without a problem I'll have a machine far more usable than my wife's Kindle Fire, without having to plunk down $2H. Well, one of the pleasures of Puppy Linux is bragging rights.

Thanks Ray MK for the info re Xfce panel.

mikesLr

technosaurus · #1240 Post by **technosaurus** » Fri 24 Feb 2012, 06:25

you can pretty much always run jwm

Exit to console

Xorg & export DISPLAY=:0 && jwm -display :0
or
Xvesa -screen $WxHxBPP -nolisten tcp & export DISPLAY=:0 && jwm -display :0

if you _want_ anything else to start up with jwm there is a <StartupCommand> tag (it is on my todo list, but you can just add it in .jwmrc-tray for now) my microsaurus version only uses ~3Mb RAM total with Xvesa, jwm and rxvt all up and running

Edit ... thanks for reminding me about the %* in the desktop files - thats an easy fix

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Saluki works fine on an eeepc Asus 701SD