Puppy 4.2 RC3 Deep Thought - Bugs & Fixes
Puppy 4.2 RC3 Deep Thought - Bugs & Fixes
I have just uploaded the third and final Release Candidate for Puppy 4.2 Deep Thought with Seamonkey and Claws mail. There are no major issues remaining to be resolved, having settled the CUPS printing issues and the wireless networking problems:
Known issues:
1. The Pwidgets Clock-analog plugin doesn't use the hands colours of dark or light, only the theme.
See the Pwidgets thread (top of p105) for an easy fix.
2. I still haven't set /usr/share/doc/home.html as the default home page for Seamonkey. It's there and contains the link to the puppy web portal but you'll need to add it manually to test.
3. Localisation appears to have introduced a bug to PETget.
Please use attached dotpet to overwrite the buggy version and report.
New applications include Pwidgets (2.0) and RemaX-4.20 (Remaster Express). This release has been mostly about squashing niggling minor bugs, polishing and adding some minor changes to usability.
Coolpup has continued to submit back-end updates as have aragon and ttuuxxx. The localisation team including esmourgit and droope have continued to supply localised scripts. Zigbert, trio, 01micko and tasmod are still churning out new versions of Pwidgets. Lobster and ecomoney are working on publicity. Pizzasgood, Dougal, Patriot, rerwin and MU are working behind the scenes supporting various parts of the program. All have my sincere thanks, along with the myriad of willing testers, for their support of the project.
NOTE: All mirrors now require login - UserID = puppy, Password = linux
Mirrors:
1. http://puppyisos.org/isos/2009-01-to-06/4.2-rc3/
2. http://www.pkagfiles.net/puppy-test/
3. http://www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/test/
If the mirrors don't show the new release yet it's probably because the admins haven't had time to move the files to the download area ... try again later.
This release is 99.92Mb, including RemaX, so we are within our target weight for the final release. RemaX weighed in at a hefty 26kb ... well done, pa!
Enjoy!
Known issues:
1. The Pwidgets Clock-analog plugin doesn't use the hands colours of dark or light, only the theme.
See the Pwidgets thread (top of p105) for an easy fix.
2. I still haven't set /usr/share/doc/home.html as the default home page for Seamonkey. It's there and contains the link to the puppy web portal but you'll need to add it manually to test.
3. Localisation appears to have introduced a bug to PETget.
Please use attached dotpet to overwrite the buggy version and report.
New applications include Pwidgets (2.0) and RemaX-4.20 (Remaster Express). This release has been mostly about squashing niggling minor bugs, polishing and adding some minor changes to usability.
Coolpup has continued to submit back-end updates as have aragon and ttuuxxx. The localisation team including esmourgit and droope have continued to supply localised scripts. Zigbert, trio, 01micko and tasmod are still churning out new versions of Pwidgets. Lobster and ecomoney are working on publicity. Pizzasgood, Dougal, Patriot, rerwin and MU are working behind the scenes supporting various parts of the program. All have my sincere thanks, along with the myriad of willing testers, for their support of the project.
NOTE: All mirrors now require login - UserID = puppy, Password = linux
Mirrors:
1. http://puppyisos.org/isos/2009-01-to-06/4.2-rc3/
2. http://www.pkagfiles.net/puppy-test/
3. http://www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/test/
If the mirrors don't show the new release yet it's probably because the admins haven't had time to move the files to the download area ... try again later.
This release is 99.92Mb, including RemaX, so we are within our target weight for the final release. RemaX weighed in at a hefty 26kb ... well done, pa!
Enjoy!
- Attachments
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- petget-420-v3.pet
- Non-localised PETget package
- (25.01 KiB) Downloaded 1682 times
Last edited by WhoDo on Sat 14 Mar 2009, 13:33, edited 7 times in total.
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Remaster Express looks very interesting
and many of us will be pleased to use that
in the final release.
Anyone testing it let us know how you get on
On my screen lock and zip appeared a third up the screen
this is at 1280*1024
Barry had this problem at some point and I do not remember what the solution was - anyone?
Easy enough to move of course
Was very easy to stop pwidgets
(many will enjoy pwidgets)
not my thing - personal choice
Well done everyone
Thanks WhoDo!
Wireless fine now! Easy 10 second setup...
Cheers
Wireless fine now! Easy 10 second setup...
Cheers
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whodo
1. yes, I can't install any pets too --> edit: after manual installation of above petget.pet -- ok now
2. I am sure now that you haven't put jwm fix (as in jwm theme_swicther) in gtk2jwm .. fresh install no pup_save when I looked inside it...
Thanks
1. yes, I can't install any pets too --> edit: after manual installation of above petget.pet -- ok now
2. I am sure now that you haven't put jwm fix (as in jwm theme_swicther) in gtk2jwm .. fresh install no pup_save when I looked inside it...
Thanks
Last edited by trio on Sat 14 Mar 2009, 13:42, edited 3 times in total.
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Re: Puppy 4.2 RC3 Deep Thought - Bugs & Fixes
Um, one little thing . . . instructions on how to install a .PET without PETget! Here's how I did it: (1) run pet2tgz on the .PET; (2) untar the resulting tarball; (3) manually overwrite all possibly bad built-in files with the corresponding presumably good ones from the .PET-turned-tarball. It worked, but is there a better way?WhoDo wrote:Localisation appears to have introduced a bug to PETget. Please use attached dotpet to overwrite the buggy version and report.
Aside from that . . . I haven't had time yet to test much of anything but the network connection (which worked for me, as always) and printing (which worked for me, as not always in the past, with AbiWord, TextMaker, and SeaMonkey). More soon, I hope!
Last edited by pa_mcclamrock on Sat 14 Mar 2009, 13:43, edited 1 time in total.
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See main post above for patch and update request. PETget corrupted (I think) by localisation update. The .pet rolls back to the previous version of PETget.capoverde wrote:Tried to install XNetLoad with the usual PET Package Manager, but nothing happened. Tried to install other apps, no matter from what section, same result... What's the matter here? Worked fine before
(Reaching the forum is getting every time harder -- now only about 1 try out of 8 randomly works).
BarryK has emailed John Murga about the forum issues. We'll see.
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Re: Puppy 4.2 RC3 Deep Thought - Bugs & Fixes
A better way? Yeah, I could get it right the first time!pa_mcclamrock wrote:Um, one little thing . . . instructions on how to install a .PET without PETget! Here's how I did it: (1) run pet2tgz on the .PET; (2) untar the resulting tarball; (3) manually overwrite all possibly bad built-in files with the corresponding presumably good ones from the .PET-turned-tarball. It worked, but is there a better way?
Try this:
1. Open a console in the directory where you have the .pet
2. Use pet2tgz command as before
3. Click on the resulting tgz file and use Xarchiver to extract (no need to remember tar/untar commands)
4. Drag extracted directories to appropriate locations using ROX filer and choose Yes when asked to merge contents.
Hopefully the localization guys will work out why their changes broke PETget. If I have to release Final with a non-localised PETget I will, so main focus should be on testing RemaX. 0pkgs_db-420 uploaded to ibiblio.org this evening along with all of the other updated and optional dotpets.
Cheers
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Hmmm... maybe another glitch in my Unleashed tree. Please upload fix again here so I can include properly. Thanks trio.trio wrote:2. I am sure now that you haven't put jwm fix (as in jwm theme_swicther) in gtk2jwm .. fresh install no pup_save when I looked inside it...
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here it is:
/usr/local/jwmconfig2/gtk2jwm (start line 178)
lineNumber=`expr $linenumber`
lineNumber2=`expr $linenumber2`
#Zigbert added this, because maybe somebody forgot to put
blinkyline="blinkydelayed -bg \"$BackgroundColor\""
xloadline=" xload -nolabel -fg red -hl white -bg \"$IndentedBackgroundColor\""
#fixed by hairywill 20-01-09 handle case where linenumber/2 is zero
[ ! "$lineNumber" = 0 ] && sed -ie "$lineNumber"d $TrayFile && sed -ie "$lineNumber"i"$blinkyline" $TrayFile
[ ! "$lineNumber2" = 0 ] && sed -ie "$lineNumber2"d $TrayFile && sed -ie "$lineNumber2"i"$xloadline" $TrayFile
#sed -e "$lineNumber"i"$blinkyline" -e "$lineNumber"d -e "$lineNumber2"i"$xloadline" -e "$lineNumber2"d $TrayFileBak > $TrayFile
#end John Doe's code.
########
#Trio-this to make absvolume follows theme without reboot
if [ -f /usr/bin/absvolume ];then
if [ "$MENU_BG" = "" ];then
killall absvolume
absvolume &
else
killall absvolume
absvolume -bg $MENU_BG &
fi
fi
########
sync
pidof jwm >/dev/null && jwm -restart
Thanks
here it is:
/usr/local/jwmconfig2/gtk2jwm (start line 178)
lineNumber=`expr $linenumber`
lineNumber2=`expr $linenumber2`
#Zigbert added this, because maybe somebody forgot to put
blinkyline="blinkydelayed -bg \"$BackgroundColor\""
xloadline=" xload -nolabel -fg red -hl white -bg \"$IndentedBackgroundColor\""
#fixed by hairywill 20-01-09 handle case where linenumber/2 is zero
[ ! "$lineNumber" = 0 ] && sed -ie "$lineNumber"d $TrayFile && sed -ie "$lineNumber"i"$blinkyline" $TrayFile
[ ! "$lineNumber2" = 0 ] && sed -ie "$lineNumber2"d $TrayFile && sed -ie "$lineNumber2"i"$xloadline" $TrayFile
#sed -e "$lineNumber"i"$blinkyline" -e "$lineNumber"d -e "$lineNumber2"i"$xloadline" -e "$lineNumber2"d $TrayFileBak > $TrayFile
#end John Doe's code.
########
#Trio-this to make absvolume follows theme without reboot
if [ -f /usr/bin/absvolume ];then
if [ "$MENU_BG" = "" ];then
killall absvolume
absvolume &
else
killall absvolume
absvolume -bg $MENU_BG &
fi
fi
########
sync
pidof jwm >/dev/null && jwm -restart
Thanks
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Re: Puppy 4.2 RC3 Deep Thought - Bugs & Fixes
I think the alternatives are (1) release Final with a non-localized PETget or (2) issue one more RC in which the localized version can be thoroughly tested. Whatever you do, please do not take any risk that they'll incorrectly think it's fixed and then everybody will find out it isn't in the final release!WhoDo wrote:Hopefully the localization guys will work out why their changes broke PETget. If I have to release Final with a non-localised PETget I will [ . . . ]
It's stupid to use inferior software for ideological reasons.
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Done. Included for Final release.trio wrote:here it is:
/usr/local/jwmconfig2/gtk2jwm (start line 178)
I had modified the theme_switcher file from the same directory but not the gtk2jwm switcher. That is what had me confused.
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Yes, although the patch was posted well before your post. A last minute update to PETget for localisation broke it. My bad. Of course I don't really need my nose rubbed in it though do I?trapster wrote:We have a new release that cannot install a .pet ??
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UPDATES & FIXES
Stripped Libs
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 4.2rc3.pet
ClawsMail with SSL
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 0-i386.pet
Fix For Spelling in Abiword and ClawsMail, (Should be added to the main abiword package thats going to be added to the repo)
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... abifix.pet
petget.tar.gz
If your Puppy package manager isn't working, extract this file and move/replace it to /usr/sbin/ then it will work again
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=16172
Geanyfont.pet
Is should be added to the Geany package it makes it easier to read the highlight fonts and also I made 'defaultbrowser' as the html viewer it was 'firefox' before
Set-Time-Date.pet
is an updated version of the Set-Time-Date, there was a post that complained about after the fact warnings etc, so I fixed that.
Full SeaMonkey including mail
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 1.14-1.pet
ttuuxxx
Stripped Libs
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 4.2rc3.pet
ClawsMail with SSL
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 0-i386.pet
Fix For Spelling in Abiword and ClawsMail, (Should be added to the main abiword package thats going to be added to the repo)
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... abifix.pet
petget.tar.gz
If your Puppy package manager isn't working, extract this file and move/replace it to /usr/sbin/ then it will work again
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=16172
Geanyfont.pet
Is should be added to the Geany package it makes it easier to read the highlight fonts and also I made 'defaultbrowser' as the html viewer it was 'firefox' before
Set-Time-Date.pet
is an updated version of the Set-Time-Date, there was a post that complained about after the fact warnings etc, so I fixed that.
Full SeaMonkey including mail
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 1.14-1.pet
ttuuxxx
- Attachments
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- Burn2iso-v2.pet
- (2.81 KiB) Downloaded 1258 times
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- Geanyfont.pet
- (1.77 KiB) Downloaded 1226 times
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- NewerBlinkyFreemem.pet
- (874 Bytes) Downloaded 1338 times
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- Set-Time-Date.pet
- (1.23 KiB) Downloaded 1263 times
Last edited by ttuuxxx on Thu 19 Mar 2009, 17:52, edited 5 times in total.
I have no idea what you're talking about, so if you want it included please tell me where to find out about it or post the information here. Simply producing a one sentence "notification" does ZERO to get it fixed, as you have already found out!rcrsn51 wrote:The smb symlink needed to connect to a Windows shared printer is still missing.
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