wish list for next puppy release

What features/apps/bugfixes needed in a future Puppy
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groundhog
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wish list for next puppy release

#1 Post by groundhog »

Thanks to all who are responsible for the latest puppy 3.01. I'm enjoying it very much.

However, as a new user who's trying to make the transition from windows to linux, I would very much like to see a wpa encryption setup that doesn't involve my having to mess with the wpa_supplicant.conf file. I still haven't figured it out, but I'm hoping that any new releases will have this improvement.

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#2 Post by MaZZly »

i wish for firestarter support so that i can share internet easy and fast without the problems im having now.. :D

also i would like to have a function on the clock so that it syncs with some server or something.

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#3 Post by Béèm »

I don't know how the sequence is to present this list when booting, but I would prefer to have the list in alphabetical order.
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#4 Post by conradcliff »

I don't know if people just get sick and tired of hearing this but I think it would be mighty cool if better support for toshiba laptops was added in the next release...

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#5 Post by Flash »

Well then send Barry a Toshiba laptop so he won't have an excuse. :lol:

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rc.shutdown suggestion

#6 Post by Pick »

My case is probably not unique. I am running from a USB stick with a swap file on a HD. Because my devices are static I put a mount statement for the swap file device in rc.local followed by a swapon /mnt/hxx1/pup.swp statement. Cool. Now I have an automatic swapfile brought up at startup. I could build an desktop link to a script to swapoff and umount (Actually I did this) but then I'd have to remember to pop that button before hitting reboot or shutdown.
If I read it correctly, rc.shutdown does a universal umount as it's last act but if the swapfile is still "on" I get a disk error complaining about the partition table when trying to restart..apparently has no consequence but I get nervous when I see HD error messages about partition tables.
The code to find an existing swapfile and swapoff it, would seem to be a relative easy addition right before the busybox umount statement in rc.shutdown. (I guess this presumes there is an easy way to find the *.swp file location) That way if a swap file were inadvertently left on at shutdown it would get turned off before the swap device was unmounted or more probably actually not unmounted before power off.
In my case since I know the location of my pup.swp swapfile I just hard coded a swapoff for that file into rc.shutdown and viola fixed. Not elegant but it works.

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#7 Post by changturkey »

Maybe a combined repo for slackware and .pet packages? And maybe the combination of PSI and Gslapt..?

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#8 Post by PaulBx1 »

The new Gnumeric stable release, 1.8.1 (or whatever the latest is). The old Gnumeric is getting pretty long in tooth and is severely lacking in features.

Encryption via dm_crypt, dispensing with the older encryption tools if they burn too much space (because they are kinda feeble).

GPG and Enigmail for Seamonkey (could be a pet package).

Truecrypt (could be a pet).

A convenient way to back up pup_save files.

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#9 Post by Inuyasha »

1) Desktop Wallpaper

I want to be able to change the Desktop Wallpaper without it requiring an install.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 24&t=25122

2) .bashrc usage

I freaking want to use my .bashrc file!
Can we somehow, please, get the console to be preset to bash?
Or perhaps just have a way that .bashrc is used?

It seems like I have to hack all the GUI features to use that file.
Otherwise, I would have to type "bash" everytime I want to use it.

3) The help file

What's the possibility of making a more professional help file?
Perhaps something with frames?

4) WMA format for gxine

Can we get a WMA plug-in for that? Perhaps some kind of advice where to get it?

5) Internet connection sharing wizard

This would be awesome. I think I saw that ecomoney made something. But if it could also involve using a wireless device as a host and sending the transmission to a client via ethernet, then it would make things so much more awesome.

6) THIS!

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# dhcpcd
****  dhcpcd: already running
****  dhcpcd: if not then delete /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.pid file
7) Dougal's Remaster

I would like this to be added as a remaster option.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=10922

I'm not remastering a CD.

- I'm more concerned with the .bashrc file more than anything else.
PaulBx1 wrote:The new Gnumeric stable release, 1.8.1 (or whatever the latest is). The old Gnumeric is getting pretty long in tooth and is severely lacking in features..
I don't know. What do you think is wrong?
I can do statistics pretty well on it.

I much rather have GNUplot and some kind of LaTeX WYSIWYM processor.
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#10 Post by Inuyasha »

In part to number one, I think something is wrong with the .xinitrc file

I'm thinking it's this section:

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if [ $PUPMODE -eq 5 ];then #v2.17
 setrox2backdrop /root/Choices/ROX-background.jpg
 #...sets background image, written into /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin
else
 #v2.17 i think need this on 2nd boot, to change welcome.png to default.jpg...
 if [ ! -f /root/Choices/ROX-background.jpg ];then
  cp /usr/share/backgrounds/default.jpg /root/Choices/ROX-background.jpg
  setrox2backdrop /usr/share/backgrounds/default.jpg
 fi
fi
That is not the original.

But I altered this part with what it has, and now the Background change that can be obtained from the menu works.

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if [ $PUPMODE -eq 5 ];then #v2.17
 setrox2backdrop /root/Choices/ROX-background.jpg
 #...sets background image, written into /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin
else
However, the right-clicking, Desktop-icon backdrop option does not work:

I've pinned it down to these locations:

/etc/
./Puppybackgroundpicture
./Puppybackgroundcolor

/usr/local/Puppybackground/

/root/
./.xinitrc

/root/Choices/ROX-FIler/
./PuppyPin
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#11 Post by Th3_uN1Qu3 »

conradcliff wrote:I don't know if people just get sick and tired of hearing this but I think it would be mighty cool if better support for toshiba laptops was added in the next release...
I got most features working on my Portege 4010 and the ones that don't work yet are not working coz i didn't bother to fix them. :P

But indeed, it would be nice to have FnFX and Powernowd installed by default or available as Dotpups. I would make them myself but i don't know how.
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#12 Post by rastapax »

I am working on a set of icons to improve the interface without increasing weight if puppy

Is my small contribution

PS? You can make a logo or something interesting that although not much a greeting something .... :) :)
For example, when you put ubuntu do not see numbers while loading time icons or percentages
During his instalcion
To think that there is a puppy OS that installs and installs easily and that would be a plus
''Or not
I am not an expert on linux user's basic love make it accessible and friendly

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#13 Post by gerry »

For Puppy 3.02 (Chihuahua):- I have a Canon i965 printer, not supported by Gutenprint etc, so I have to use Canon's own driver. In 2 and 3 series Puppy, Abiword and GIMP will not print. But in Dingo a7 Abiword does. Can this feature be backported to 3.02? And if I get GIMP working in Dingo that may work too.

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Suggestion For All Puppies

#14 Post by gerry »

Please put "Booting Puppy xyz" immediately above the "Choose a pup-save file" line at boot-up. I use live cd, and sometimes have to extract the cd to see which one I'm booting.

Gerry

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#15 Post by KJ »

Please put "Booting Puppy xyz" immediately above the "Choose a pup-save file" line at boot-up. I use live cd, and sometimes have to extract the cd to see which one I'm booting.
Sure would be an easy way to double check what CD you are running before selecting an appropriate .2fs (or upgrading something you didn't want to upgrade) for us with several pup_saves available on HD and/or USB.

KJ

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Stable WiFi configurator/configuration

#16 Post by rsadix »

3.01 Full Install is great, and for wifi on my older Dell laptop with a PCMCIA DLink 650 I use the NDIS wrapper and it works great. I save my settings and everytime I boot after that, the wireless comes up on boot. Perfect.

On a different partition I installed 3.99. The same wireless device is recognized as ath_pci for wireless, Enter wlan wpa2 info, wizard status bar takes and while and says "WPA didn't connect" but the networking defice is recognized, and AUTO DHCP works. Networking is fine for that session. If I reboot, no wireless and I have to go through the network config again. I can choose the NDIS wrapper as in 3.01 but I have to load the ath_pci again in order to be able to unload it to try another driver (took me a little while to figure that out). The NDIS driver will also work fine that session, but when I reboot, again no wireless without running net config again.

Observations:
- In 3.01 the ping command delivers 64 bytes, in 3.99 its 56
- In 3.01 ifconfig just shows lo and wireless, with the ip info listed under wireless... In 3.99 ifconfig shows ath_pci, lo and wireless with the ip info under neath ath_pci
- Loading the ath_pci driver in 3.01 does not recognize the DLink 650 as compatible hardware

I saw some comments and code changes in the 3.99 rc.network file that talked about a bugfix, but unfortunately for me, the NDIS wrapper in 3.01 works better than the native ath_pci driver in 3.99.

I haven't tried full installing 3.01 and then booting off the 3.99 disk and upgrading yet.

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delted repeat

#17 Post by rsadix »

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wpa2

#18 Post by imnotrich »

It's not enough to include various drivers that do not work, or that only work part way (for example the r8180/8185 or the zydas 1211 usb which can scan networks but not connect open or in any encrypted mode).

I have tried every Puppy distro from 1.09 up to 4, and truly long for working wireless for my laptops!

Also would be nice if Puppy supported my touch pad, but I'd settle for wireless.

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Re: wpa2

#19 Post by ttuuxxx »

imnotrich wrote:It's not enough to include various drivers that do not work, or that only work part way (for example the r8180/8185 or the zydas 1211 usb which can scan networks but not connect open or in any encrypted mode).

I have tried every Puppy distro from 1.09 up to 4, and truly long for working wireless for my laptops!

Also would be nice if Puppy supported my touch pad, but I'd settle for wireless.
I'm shooting in the dark here but have you tried this patch?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ch&id=5992
just wondering
tons of network improvements were never placed into puppy 3.01 or 4 series because of other issues but you can have a look at this forum link
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22245
please do tell how it all went :)
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Re: wpa2

#20 Post by imnotrich »

ttuuxxx wrote:
imnotrich wrote:It's not enough to include various drivers that do not work, or that only work part way (for example the r8180/8185 or the zydas 1211 usb which can scan networks but not connect open or in any encrypted mode).

I have tried every Puppy distro from 1.09 up to 4, and truly long for working wireless for my laptops!

Also would be nice if Puppy supported my touch pad, but I'd settle for wireless.
I'm shooting in the dark here but have you tried this patch?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ch&id=5992
just wondering
tons of network improvements were never placed into puppy 3.01 or 4 series because of other issues but you can have a look at this forum link
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22245
please do tell how it all went :)
ttuuxxx
Thanks for trying, but the forum link you sent is something I've already tried without success, and the "patch" over wrote newer packages. That patch by the way doesn't support wpa or wpa2 either. Kinda made things worse.

So here's another idea for future Puppies-add a sanity check to packages if they are about to over write the newer version.

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