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ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 10 Mar 2009, 09:23 Post_subject:

WhoDo spell checking works in my version you just have to enable it Smile

/Edit/Preferences/Spell Checking and tick 'check spelling as you type'
then try it, works fine Smile

ttuuxxx

WhoDo · Posted: Tue 10 Mar 2009, 09:28 Post_subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 10 Mar 2009, 09:45 Post_subject:

Minnesota · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 312

Booted rc2, from the CD, changed preferences for "check spelling as you type..."

Works....

Personally should be the default, my opinion, as a notorious bad speller.

Smile

))

Béèm · Posted: Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:01 Post_subject:

SeaMonkey has spell checking for quite some time now.
Works out of the box in rc2.
I can load other language modules when needed.
(For my purpose, Dutch, French and German)

mawebb88 · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 245 Location: France nr Lyon

Good
Gxine browser plugin from a link in Seamonkey works fine

There is a show desktop icon just to the right of the "menu/Puppy 4.2" button in both jwm and icewm

Less good

Clicking on a playlist (on my Samba LAN disk) at /mnt/network/MAPOWER-NAS/Music_mp3/Abba/Arrival/playlist.m3u opens Alsaplayer but nothing happens with "no stream" indicated in the players title bar.

Using "Open with" from Rox, gxine also does not work on my playlist (see screen shot attachment)

My playlist looks like:

When I Kissed The Teacher.mp3
Dancing Queen.mp3
etc .i.e. no path in the m3u file (as I play these from more than computer and OS)

So I installed bmp-0.9.7.1.pet as I use this in 4.1.2 and this still works fine with 4.2RC2 with my same playlist with no paths on my Samba LAN disk. Maybe something still could be optimised with gxine's mimes?

As a side line the final dialogue on on the bmp-0.9.7.1.pet installation looks like this!

See screen shot attachment

It looks to me like it reports its in multiple JWM submenus although its actually only under Multimedia.

Oh no! Just noticed the Eee's fan is not working (wondered why my lap was getting hot). CPU temperature has shot up to 66C. So will have to abandon testing.unfortunately. Pity I was just getting going. Guess I need all those pets from tempestuous 's thread "Extra drivers for Puppy 4.1 with 2.6.25.16 kernel"

Mike

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3770

On my p3 900 MHz 256MB thinkpad t22, the pwidgets program makes the Puppy 4.2 desktop significantly less responsive. and the responsive desktop is the thing I have always loved about Puppy. Am I right that it is entirely deactivated with no processes left running by Menu -> Desktop -> pwidgets and removing all 4 items?

I would also like to cleanly remove ptray. I had some trouble and I think I had to restart the X server to get it to go away. What is the procedure for deactivating it cleanly with no processes left running. Will the option Hide tray in Menu -> Desktop -> ptray utility bar do that or does that leave something running? Is there a distinct process that is responsible for ptray?

Another reason for removing the pwidgets is that only the pwidgets wallpaper looks good with the widgets running; with any other wallpaper the widgets all have a gray rectangular background around them. Is that right???

thanks.

panzerpuppy · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 632

It would be really nice if someone can modify Pmount or MUT to allow for read-only mounting of partitions.
It's very useful for safe mounting of NTFS or UDF partitions/media where you don't want to modify anything.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 10 Mar 2009, 20:01 Post_subject:

Hey WhoDo I have the Abiword Plugins compiled, What a mess of packages, Goffice still doesn't show up for some odd reason, never the less it doesn't matter, I used the goffice-dev from the repo, which by the way is useless because the dev's are cutback way too much, so I went to compile the latest and well thats no good either because it now uses gio as a dependence, plus 3 other packages that are outdate on puppy, it would of really bloated up, so then I downloaded the same version as puppy and compiled that one, Which compiled fine but still didn't find it, but anyways I managed to trim it down somewhat so that a bonus, around 200k expanded but every bit counts Smile

Anyways I needed libBoost to compile the plugins, wow what a big set of libraries that is. 81MB expanded, I haven't compressed it yet, did you want it for the repo? If so I'll upload it, took about 30mins to compile. Its handy for the packagers. I didn't bother with jam.
Ok now for the goodstuff Smile

I managed to strip the plugins and now the abiword plugins is 715kb pet. 2832kb expanded and now when you open abiword and select plugins it doesn't crash. caugh caugh like I figure:) lol
I'll upload in a bit once I figure out everything. But overall it should be a good savings in size Smile

compared to using goffice 7.0, plus added libs etc. Plus stabler and with the added extra bonus of OpenXml
ttuuxxx

Update
made it smaller now 715kb, I could of saved another 32kb by deleting the glade xsl stuff, like Barry has in the past, but I think its needed.
could lead to making it unstable? anyone have a clue on it?

trio · Posted: Tue 10 Mar 2009, 22:36 Post_subject: Re: pwidgets & ptray

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3770

@ trio,

trio · Posted: Tue 10 Mar 2009, 23:05 Post_subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 10 Mar 2009, 23:18 Post_subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 10 Mar 2009, 23:21 Post_subject:

And don't tell me it can't be done as pet, I was the first to make the devx compiler as a pet, for like puppy series 3,4, if you can make that as a pet and it works then you can do that with anything.
ttuuxxx