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tasmod · Posted: Sun 03 Jan 2010, 08:02 Post subject:

For ease we used the drive tooltip text rather than working out drives size, why not if already done?

It appears that in 214 this tooltip is not there or else in another location.

On desktop when you hover over drive, is tooltip displayed ?

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7017 Location: qld

Seems it is a feature introduced later on davesurrey, not available in 2.14, amazing it doesn't just error out...

If you boot a puppy 4X you will see tooltips when you hover over a drive, that's the info.

Cheers

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro

I'll test this later on dpup I have like 10 partitions on my desktop PC.

tasmod · Posted: Sun 03 Jan 2010, 08:21 Post subject:

dave,

One of the features we intended to add was an autostart of selected apps.

Scenario: Cool

Pmusic.

Start computer, windows partition or other partition mounts with your music files in it, pmusic starts and uses playlist. there, instant music.

Will look into further options for running the Startmount app. Very Happy

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5240 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Mmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very Happy

Goes of course straight into Stardust

Sigmund

davesurrey · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 1201 Location: UK

Sorry for the delay but did some testing.
Okay I tested this in the same PC but this time under ttuuxxx's pup4311 (based in puppy4.3):

I can confirm that
-- home is not displayed...good.
-- it displays drive info..good

I tried to set it to mount sda1 (ntfs), sdb2 (ext4), sdb10 (vfat), and sdc1 (vfat on a usb stick) but initially sdb10 just wouldn't mount. It mounted just fine manually using Pmount.

Then tried with sdb9, sdb10 and sdc1 and all got mounted !!

Then tried sda1, sdb2, sdb9, sdb10 and sdc1 again. This time sdb9 didn't get mounted, all the others did. Believe me this was not operator error.

However since then it has never failed whatever the combination I have tried. Can't be that it needed a reboot as it was getting that everytime.
Been trying to break it for a while but no go..so it looks good now.

Interesting that with StartMount installed the previously mounted partitions flash on the desktop (I mean the green led like lights on the drive icons ) after a reboot and then they change to represent the newly mounted ones. It doesn't do that if StartMount is not installed.

Going back to 214X-RC2, no I don't see any drive info if I mouse over a drive icon on the desktop. Is the info in just one file? If so what is it called in 431? I'd like to do a search for it?

Still think that some visual feedback as to how it is set-up would be a benefit.

Yes autostarting an app would be great.

HTH
Dave

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7017 Location: qld

Hi Dave,

In 4X pups the info is in /root/.pup_event/ .. then pick a drive and right click... look inside.

Cheers

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1229 Location: Ukraine

Dear 01micko,

This is a nice, useful app. My only problem on the desktop computer, where I have 2 internal drives, a USB stick and a 1.5 TB drive with 13 partitions, is that I cannot see all my drives. What about using a notebook widgets to show individual devices along with their partitions? Or scrolling? If I connect the 1.5 TB drive to my NC10, I will see only half the available devices, if that many.

With thanks and kind regards,
vovchik

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7017 Location: qld

vovchik

Many partitions I see. Yes we need to support that.

May I ask what OS you are using? You should get a readout of drives, filesystem and size.

Cheers.

davesurrey · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 1201 Location: UK

01micko wrote

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1229 Location: Ukraine

Dear 01micko,

I have 3.01 on the desktop and 4.10 (jaunty) on the NC10. On the NC10, I see the filesystem info just fine.

With kind regards,
vovchik

tasmod · Posted: Sun 03 Jan 2010, 14:43 Post subject:

Hmmm, thrown up some interesting version quirks.

For now it appears it will work correctly on puppy 4 series. This is because both mick and I were testing on 431 Stardust 003 and had limited drives to work on.

The drive size info is derived from the AppInfo.xml so maybe we should go to the alternative to scan and do our own sizing.
It was my suggestion not to re-invent the wheel there, as the info was already available in 4 series in the xml.

I came up with this because I've been working (slowly) on extending the 'tooltip' to reflect the free drive space also.

So it would appear on mouse_over as say :

Filesystem: ext3 Size: 9.6gb Free 3.2gb

Still, that's what feedback is for when we can't cater for all drives.

tasmod · Posted: Sun 03 Jan 2010, 14:49 Post subject:

Dave,

here's what's in one of my drives info :-

davesurrey · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 1201 Location: UK

Thanks Rob,
Interestingly even though it's working well in puppy 4311 my /root/.pup_event/drive_sdb/AppInfo.xml file (for example) is

tasmod · Posted: Mon 04 Jan 2010, 13:42 Post subject:

Just to check Dave,

In 4 series.

What do you get if you look into :-

/root/.pup_event/drive_sdb4/AppInfo.xml

Note the "sdb4" this should then give partition info for that one.

We are looking at another file common to it seems 2 thru 4 series for the drive info. However, it needs code to get the info and size conversion. (It's in blocks)

Must admit Mick is much faster than I am, although we tend to write almost identical code all the time Laughing