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[01micko]

[Jades]

[ally]

hey 01micko

just downloaded and frugal installed RC2 PAE to a lenovo t61, found everything straight away

early doors yet but have noticed that the frugal did not install to a folder like 5.3.3 (small 3gb partition running ext2)

not a fan of opera so have loaded a chromium (22) sfs which was asking for an updated plugin - updated to 11..

have loaded my default apps of x11server, tightvnc and wolgui from the old slacko which appear to be running correctly but menu'd to utilities (sorry don't have the skills to help create pets n stuff). also skype2.1beta sfs seems ok

5.3.3 pae did not work for me but this one looks good

sincerest thanks for the hard work (et. al)

[Jades]

Noticed a number of oddities with the Menu.

It seems a little pointless to have a submenu in Network when there's only one category in there. Internet is a single-level menu, Network could be too.

X-Chat is in Network->Remote - should be in Internet.

Geany is in Utility->Utilities - wouldn't somewhere under Document be more appropriate?

GIMP 2.8.2 SFS creates menu entries in both Graphic->Graphics and Graphic->Edit.

[01micko]

ally

Yeah, not everybody likes Opera but it is the smallest of the big browsers. I like chrome browsers too, but at getting close to 50 M [ ] they are a bit big for a standard pup. Chromium-25 and Chrome-23 are in the PPM for anyone interested

Jades

Noted about your menu concerns. Probably the worst one is Xchat. I should have fixed that .oh.. about a year ago! Will fix.

Geany, well technically it's an IDE, I like it where it is, but I can see your point. I won't change it now, but will consider that in the future.

Generally, some folks don't like submenus at all. You can be rid of them by editing /root/.jwm/JWMRC and you'll see SUBMENUS="0" (or is it 1?), doesn't matter, change it to SUBMENUS="" and run fixmenus

With gimp, that bug will have to stay for the time being as I am having difficulty uploading anything bigger than a couple of meg to ibiblio. This trouble has been ongoing. Sorry about that.

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By the way..

All versions of RC2 are now uploaded.

See Main Post

[01micko]

[Sage]

Might be doing something wrong? Used the Flashboot utility. It completed making the device bootable, offered to install Puppy but message says 'can't find .iso' on CD followed by message' wait while installing' - which it wasn't. Reverted to the standard PUI.

[bigpup]

[vicmz]

Forum member josejp2424 has reported that the Spanish language pack adds extra menu entries in Slacko. He doesn't specify what version of Slacko is using, but it is known that in Slacko 5.3.3 this does happen.

Language packs have a collection of .desktop files for menu entries of many Puppy versions, including derivatives, they are stored in a special separate folder called applications.in at /usr/share, so that when the system language is changed, the translations at /usr/share/applications.in are copied only to existing entries at /usr/share/applications. Josejp2424 reported that Precise Puppy doesn't have the bug, this is because it had many bug fixes recently including handling of menu entries. However, as you can see in the picture below, in Precise extra files are added to /usr/share/applications too, but the menu doesn't display those extra entries.

I can't download Slacko RC2 to test, so please could someone test the language pack and tell if the bug is still present?:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/jcu3bdwsmml8ode/langpack_es-20121108.pet?dl=1
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[Sage]

[rcrsn51]

[ally]

fresh (frugal) install to a dell dx520 p4 2.8gHz machine that has been on a shelf

now forming my music server attached to the hifi stack (run out of room on my desktop for iso's........)

livecd boot found everything as usual, had a little trouble on first save (it didn't) but it did put into a frugal directory this time, so will check the install on my t61

running quickly. have intsalled wolgui, simplesamba, x11server and tightvnc from old 5.3.3 pets and working fine

has no trouble running as thin client without keyboard/mouse

just copy mp3's across network to give a full test but looking really good



edit - now have a couple of desktops hooked up to my network for storage/music so have plenty of processors free to do compiling BUT I don't know how, if anybody close (ish) to lincoln (uk) who could help please get in touch - ta!

[L18L]

[ETP]

01micko

Having completed the first-run screens I opted to reboot in order to create a savefile before proceeding further. No sizes were offered then the screen below appeared. Not sure I passed the sanity test or not.

IIRC there was some sort of recent woof fix for saving to whole partitions. Not that I was going to try that but the "fix" may account for this.

[Sage]