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#241 Post by capoverde »

:lol: Thanks for taking the time to make some fun about language correctness... It has plunged down everywhere since the upcoming of spellchecking word processors...

Will try to locate all "un-English" files. :twisted:

* Using XVesa at 1280x1024 with Puppy 4.2RC2 on my most recent box (Celeron 2800 on Asrock775i65GV), at startup a grey bar appears at screen top and bottom (pic not "stretched") and the background seems cut in wood, no use restarting X. All icons and windows show normally.

Apparently these problems arise with the most compact backgrounds (they also take more time to be displayed, albeit badly). "Aurora australis" shows up perfectly and quickly -- and is a sure eye-catcher, let's keep it!

Had problems yesterday and today to enter the forum. Others, too?

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capoverde wrote:Had problems yesterday and today to enter the forum. Others, too?
Yep. I've PM'd John to see if he can do something about it. I would have emailed him but I've lost his email address since my old laptop crashed.
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#243 Post by Lobster »

You can always use the DeepThought Chat room - I will be there till 11AM GMT

http://www.chatmaker.net/chatap/rooms/DeepThought/
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Deep Thought and default wallpaper

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I've been playing around testing various wallpapers to see which ones would give us the best first impression for Puppy-4.2. I have to admit that I have two personal favourites in Zigbert's stardust and deepthought, both of which are tiny. Unfortunately, neither of them looks any good at all in 16-bit colour - they're too pixelated - and the same is true for all of the other very frugal wallpapers developed by the guys on the forum (some as small as 43 bytes!)

I don't believe that, given Puppy's focus on older hardware, we can risk our first impressions on a wallpaper that doesn't look good in 16-bit colour; hence my dilemma. Images, rather than gradient backgrounds or pixel posters, appear to be the best bet. Here are 3 such images that I'm considering. Any thoughts?

Blue-grass - 800x600 40kb

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Winter-wheat - 800x600 75kb

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Crystal-shore - 800x600 46kb

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#245 Post by ttuuxxx »

hey whodo you can get 7000 free wallpapers at http://www.myfreewallpapers.com/abstrac ... pers.shtml
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ttuuxxx wrote:hey whodo you can get 7000 free wallpapers at http://www.myfreewallpapers.com/abstrac ... pers.shtml
Does this mean you don't like any of the chosen 3? :P :lol:
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#247 Post by Lobster »

Crystal-shore - 800x600 46kb
Ctystal shore could replace the 'depressed datchund' wallpaper.
It is reminiscent of the 'arctic freeze' default of 4.12 and the seagull. Cheerful and uplifting. Grass is neutral and bland. :)
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#248 Post by 01micko »

echo (lobster's comment) :)

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Lobster wrote:
Crystal-shore - 800x600 46kb
Ctystal shore could replace the 'depressed datchund' wallpaper.
It is reminiscent of the 'arctic freeze' default of 4.12 and the seagull. Cheerful and uplifting. Grass is neutral and bland. :)
I also thought it was very reminiscent of the things that drive the Australian ethos - sun, sand and sea! :wink:
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#250 Post by ttuuxxx »

I like the 1st and 3rd wallpaper, probably the 1st one best.
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#251 Post by trapster »

The blurred (out of focus) areas are not good in the first one. Might give someone the idea that their monitor is not working (or their eyes are going bad).

I'm not convinced of the other two.
Maybe a beach scene with a tall cold sweating beer on it?
Wait.....maybe that's because I'm in Maine and it's 8 degrees F this morning.
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#252 Post by WhoDo »

trapster wrote:I'm not convinced of the other two.
Maybe a beach scene with a tall cold sweating beer on it?
Wait.....maybe that's because I'm in Maine and it's 8 degrees F this morning.
Well then you'd be glad that I didn't revert to Barry's iceberg! :P At least looking at the crystal shore should make you feel warmer, even if you aren't! :wink:
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#253 Post by Aitch »

WhoDo
Thanks for asking!
I prefer the shore, & agree with your 'reminds....' comment
But by all means go with the majority
What screen is the CatDude bootgui having? - [remember that?]
Should be nice too, eh?

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#254 Post by WhoDo »

01micko wrote:Did you gimpify (or mtpaint :wink: ) Jeba's clock? I like it.
A quick gimping is all it took. Why reinvent the clock face, eh? :P
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#255 Post by zigbert »

Would have been nice to see this screenshots when running with 16bits colordepth.


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#256 Post by WhoDo »

zigbert wrote:Would have been nice to see this screenshots when running with 16bits colordepth.
The ones in the preceding post ARE at 16bits. As for the problematic ones, here they are:

Deepthought 16bit - 800x600

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Stardust 16bit - 800x600

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g3 16bit - 800x600

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They don't look BAD ... exactly ... but they don't look very good either, which is a shame because the 3 posted above are my personal favourites in the frugal wallpapers available when displayed at 24bit colour depth.
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jwm theme?

#257 Post by dejan555 »

Hey guys, what do you think about this jwm theme I made:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 667#283667
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]

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Re: jwm theme?

#258 Post by WhoDo »

dejan555 wrote:Hey guys, what do you think about this jwm theme I made:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 667#283667
I love the theme, dejan555. 8) Unfortunately the g3 background only looks good at 24bit colour depth (see post above). See if you can find a wallpaper named "nanotek", because I think that would look great with your theme.

BTW, this is the Deep Thought Development thread, so really isn't the appropriate place to tout your JWM theme, regardless of how proud of it you are (and rightly so). The JWM themes exchange is more appropriate, but you already knew that. There will be no additions to Deep Thought at this late stage, so maybe you should look at an EZpup-style add-on package in .pet format for your fans?

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#259 Post by dejan555 »

OK, I see now that you uploaded RC3, so we're close to final 4.2! And under 100MB, yaaayyyy!
Nanotek?
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#260 Post by WhoDo »

dejan555 wrote:OK, I see now that you uploaded RC3, so we're close to final 4.2! And under 100MB, yaaayyyy!
Nanotek?
Yep. that's the one. Should look really nice with your theme. Try it at 16bits and see if it loses anything.

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