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aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1690 Location: Germany

now some reporting from a first test:

- chat deskicon does not work => defaultchat is wrong
- browse deskicon opens netsurf => defaultbrowser is set wrong?
- zip-deskicon does not work => we have xarchiver not xarchive
- deskicon for edit is not good, it'n not a notecase
- play deskicon does not work => gxineshell is missing
- dark menuicons old do not work well with dark background

- add ldconfig, so user don't need to reboot, if a lib installs to /usr/local/lib (this needs an entry in /etc/ld.so.conf)
- create defaultmusicplayer (with pmusic) and change the defaultaction for mimetypes that work with pmusic
- update libgphoto2 to support more cam's
- add new mtpaintsnapshot-gui
- add htop it's much better than top
- are gfontsel and xfontsel needed?
- cleanup setup submenu (remove the ones which are in the wizard?)
- show desktop should not be in in autohide section

cheers
aragon

WhoDo · Posted: Fri 30 Jan 2009, 17:19 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Fri 30 Jan 2009, 17:23 Post subject:

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1690 Location: Germany

tom4jesus · Posted: Fri 30 Jan 2009, 18:29 Post subject: Re: Not booting

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 30 Jan 2009, 21:15 Post subject:

added to page 1
- Mtpaint with new snapshot delay scrip by dejan555 and made it default paint.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=38165

- Xchat as default chat client

- Xarchiver Option 1 xarchiver-0.5.2-PupZip-v5.pet
updated mimes plus pupzip so the original setup works, so you don't need to add pupzip, but Xarchiver opens all the extra formats out of the box, PupZip was made so that puppy could use rpm and deb files even though rpm didn't really work, really PupZip is redundant now and should be removed along with its wrappers
- Xarchiver Option 2 xarchiver-0.5.2-i386-v5.pet
made with /usr/local/bin/defaultarchiver <-- needs to added to puppy pin, Don't install pupzip.

-Icewm renamed the package so WhoDo won't get confused, since this is like the 10 one so far Smile

Changed Xlock link to /usr/local/apps/Xlock/AppRun
Removed the Jwm xdg menu (just make sure the restart with IceWM
is included with JWM xdg menu )
***Note this package works really well, There have been complaints about the Shutdown menu having too many items in a single column, Hairywill added tabs to the menu, to simplify it for new users and an advanced tab for others to enjoy, I liked it as 1 column but I guess it could confuse new users, So the tabs are default. Some people still weren't happy about other items like Pprocess being in the advanced tabs, Well if I can't have 1 column then I guess you can please everyone and that goes with removal of any more items, In the future maybe a 3rd tab for other things. I have other things to do for this project and can't keep getting stuck on menu, when it all works fine.

-Gutenprint with 1429 ppd files, 13MB and a separate Documents and locales package, That I think is a repo only item Smile

-Htop 40kb a fine replacement for 'Top' Smile

I compiled the latest and made it work properly.

-libgphoto latest version plus dev-docs package

-GtKam Latest version plus I compiled it with the Gimp plugin, That actually works Smile

You can now import/aquire you photo's directly into Gimp:) I tried it on my small version of gimp 2.4.0 and it works
Plus a locales-doc package
ttuuxxx

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 31 Jan 2009, 04:24 Post subject:

There's nothing wrong with your makeiso script as far as I can see. The script doesn't explicitly put files into the iso. It just builds an iso out of the isolinux-builds directory. If a file is missing from there, it won't appear in the iso.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 31 Jan 2009, 04:50 Post subject:

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 31 Jan 2009, 05:13 Post subject:

Okay. Just don't make a habit of using that many in one spot. We're not a file hosting service Wink

But yeah, I see where that would make things simpler for this.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 31 Jan 2009, 05:26 Post subject:

recycler · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 122 Location: New Zealand

The first alpha of 4.2 burnt to CD and booted on two out of three machines I tried it on. This second alpha does not boot - and like others in this thread I set it up as a frugal install and it is running ok.

I also have problems with desktop icons not launching appications.
Not working: Chat, Zip (error please install xarchive), and Play

Mounting a partition and clicking on a WAV file launches Pmusic. And puppy has correctly setup the sound card automatically. However (same old feature) when I close Pmusic the WAV file carries on playing Smile

Trying to play an MP3 - click on it nothing, drag it to PLAY icon does not work and right clicking and using 'open with' reveals that links are missing for composer, gview, gzine and mozilla.

I can start Gzine from the menu and then drag MP3 files into its window....btw I set up Puppy with VLC as the default music player....looks better and has always worked well for me. And Mplayer has worked best for video....

Clicking on 'browse' starts Netsurf.....I expected Firepup - great to see that included - I;ve been on the net with it in this alpha release and have used it a lot on other puppy 4 series installations.

Looking forward to seeing how this develops
Cheers Leon

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 31 Jan 2009, 07:30 Post subject:

Whats left to do

- chat deskicon does not work => defaultchat is wrong Done Package page 1 ttuuxxx
- browse deskicon opens netsurf => defaultbrowser is set wrong?Will be changed to SeaMonkey next release
- zip-deskicon does not work => we have xarchiver not xarchive Done Package page 1 ttuuxxx
- deskicon for edit is not good, it'n not a notecase <----Job for WhoDo
- play deskicon does not work => gxineshell is missing <---Job For WhoDo
- dark menuicons old do not work well with dark background <---If I'm to fix this one, I need a working copy of 4.2a2 so i can get a feel for it

- add ldconfig, so user don't need to reboot, if a lib installs to /usr/local/lib (this needs an entry in /etc/ld.so.conf) <----Job for WhoDo
- create defaultmusicplayer (with pmusic) and change the defaultaction for mimetypes that work with pmusic <---Next on my list
- update libgphoto2 to support more cam's Done Package page 1 ttuuxxx
- add new mtpaintsnapshot-gui Done Package page 1 ttuuxxx
- add htop it's much better than top Done Package page 1 ttuuxxx
- are gfontsel and xfontsel needed? <--Not needed, users can view all fonts in abiword
- cleanup setup submenu (remove the ones which are in the wizard?) <--- wizards are nice, but direct links are more obvious
- show desktop should not be in in autohide section In what? Icewm?? I removed it because well by default most themes don't come with a matching show desktop icons, So then it looks out of place, I'll see what I can do about getting one that works with all of them.

1-2 things left on this left that I can do. The rest is simple and WhoDo's, at least I think so.
ttuuxxx

Ps if WhoDo implements the new packages I posted on page 1 plus does a few minor tweaks, It should be very nice and usable, When I'm finished the last 2 on this list, I'll start on WhoDo's wish list.

pa_mcclamrock

ttuuxxx

dogone · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 202 Location: Arizona, USA

Just a thought. Alphas should be "as needed". I suggest that ANY change to Whodo's alpha2 .iso be released as alpha3 ("alpha 2a" if that's more comforting). There's no shame in spinnng another alpha and doing so may prevent confusion.