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Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 889 Location: England

Hi Lobster,

I have installed v 3.6 In Lupu 5.1 with a few minor changes. I find it helpful and educational. I spent 10 minutes or so trying to use the Kids' stuff - which was my only abject failure.

Thanks for this and all your work on Puppy promotions as well as keeping many of us entertained.

My regards

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3845

FWIW I saw your screen capture code in the programming thread. Puppy computers are often low resource machines, so using a format that requires on the fly conversion could easily bog them down (mpeg, webm, divx, etc...) If you default to avi you can always convert afterwards. Its a trade-off though because it would use a lot more disk (and/or ram) space. I initially had support for X11-grab in woo-ff, but dropped it when I found out that none of the ffmpeg pets available at the time didn't support it.

As to the necessity, well... really, why do we even need a "package manager" to install new pets anyways. It could just as easily be a web page (see pupweb.org - for concept only - needs updated) or integrated into jwm (see my first puppy project - "The Pound") Its all a matter of preference. Some people want access to all of packages to test, while others just want to get the popular goods that they are familiar with. The developer gets to choose based on what they want that's missing and what their capabilities are.

To be honest I wish the pet specs files were outside of the package (similar to tinycore, but only 1 file) - it would make package management updates a lot easier. wget and a little bash could update a webpage or package manager regularly without having to download every (large) file

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 889 Location: England

Hi technosaurus,

I failed to understand the relevance of your post, immediately above, to this thread; so I enquire politely if it was accidentally posted here? If not, then I definitely need an intro to Lobster's imaginary medical team

My regards

big_bass · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 1736

Hey technosaurus

puppyluvr · Posted: Wed 29 Dec 2010, 21:15 Post_subject:

Hello,
@Ed,
Cool, more lit code...Ive played with the original forever, and welcome a new version....Sort of the ideal "easy edit launcher"...Kinda like how I did PupTV...

As for yodeling.....ummm....not my mantra.... Very Happy

For meditation, rather than flutes and sitars I prefer the instrumental work of Yngwie Malmsteen... Cool

And the AutoZen pet I made is annoying to the extreme... Laughing

What, no link to a personal lobster-dharma????

To get the most of it I`ll need to create a few symlinks, as I have no default browser...

What happened to puppy speak??

Lobster · Posted: Thu 30 Dec 2010, 00:43 Post_subject:

Thanks guys Cool

basically this is my personalisation
so I do what I want with it Smile

It is very simple because I am not much of a coder
- very easy to adapt

Lobster · Posted: Thu 30 Dec 2010, 01:11 Post_subject:

Lobster · Posted: Fri 28 Jan 2011, 07:23 Post_subject:

New for 3.8 incremental video naming, Puppy Reference, PupControl

Buster · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 7