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edoc · Posted: Sat 23 Jul 2011, 20:57 Post_subject:

Neat!

What, no Claws-mail or Midori, yet?

Wink

Iguleder · Posted: Tue 26 Jul 2011, 14:20 Post_subject:

I tried to write one for Webkit, which leads the way for Midori/Chromium/whatever, but decided to give up on it when it failed to build on Lucid.

Now I'm working on a brand new dpup and I'm not gonna upload it as long as it's in alpha quality, in terms of 5.x development.

I just have to fix the menu entries and fix a small bug with CUPS, then the lights go green again and I'm gonna upload this baby Smile

As a small teaser, the idea is a dpup with the 2.6.32.x kernel (maybe with a 64-bit flavor too) and two desktops, JWM and E17, with many minimalistic and lightweight apps (DeaDBeeF, Transmission 1.x, Opera, Zathura, ...), no office apps and separate SFSs for stuff like LibreOffice.

The concept is simple: have the smallest and fastest application, preferably a minimalistic one, for each task. For intensive tasks (like document writing), there won't be any lightweight application simply because lightweight alternatives to the "big guys" are pretty useless and because they're used very rarely, if at all.

At the moment what I have is a fully working dpup with a great-looking E17, the artwork from Puppy Squeeze and many stuff we had back then. It's a total revival.

The things I'm missing at the moment are the package repository I'm working on, a recompiled E17 and some menu icons that need to be fixed.

Once it's ready, I'll write more scripts. I just need a good base to work on Very Happy

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

I like your plan.

Looking forward to it.

edoc · Posted: Tue 26 Jul 2011, 15:31 Post_subject:

Sure sounds like good fun!

A "small bug" in CUPS is an oxymoron in my experience ... Rolling Eyes

I avoid anything from google Evil or Very Mad

... if Claws-mail would play-nicely for multiple accounts I would be happy with it and Midori vs Opera.

Why Opera versus Seamonkey ... or Claws/Midori?

I will have to read-up on E17, that one completely got by me.

BTW: I am still using dpup 009 on this laptop! Laughing

Standing by ...

scsijon · Posted: Tue 26 Jul 2011, 22:36 Post_subject:

Iguleder · Posted: Wed 27 Jul 2011, 15:43 Post_subject:

Nope, I want it to be pure E17 with GTK apps, the most lightweight ones I find.

At the moment it looks really good, there are only two things I need to get sorted - menu entries/icons and the default E17 settings. Otherwise, it's really really fast and nice.

I want to solve these problems this weekend, then I might upload a beta quality ISO.

edoc: Sylpheed and Opera are the smallest and fastest combination, that's why. And CUPS has only one small issue we fixed in Puppy Squeeze, I just need to implement it again.

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2011, 07:56 Post_subject:

Here's something new in Puppizard, a Dialog-based GUI similar to Slackware's package management tools and the firewall wizard.

At the moment Woof is processing the dpup packages ... I want to upload the first alpha of the reborn Puppy Squeeze today. Very Happy

Many applications, great stability and great speed. It looks really good for a first build.

big_bass · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 1736

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2011, 21:32 Post_subject:

Hi I took 2 icons from a mashup icon set that I found on gnome-look, they are License: Creative Commons
www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mashup?content=86452
ttuuxxx

Iguleder · Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2011, 01:40 Post_subject:

Wow, nice icons, ttuuxxx! Thank you!

I might add them to the package in the dpup repo, some features are going to join it this weekend. Smile

My plans are support for repositories (automatic downloading of all build scripts) and fixes to all build scripts to make them automatically keep just the 48x48 pixmap and a Puppy-style menu entry.

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Just tried Puppizard 008. Nice GUI, works well for selecting what is to be done. Great idea and well implemented.

I only tried downloading two programs, Libreoffice and Opera. Both installed fine, however, I was disappointed when I discovered that Libreoffice is a cutdown version that only has Text Document, Spreadsheet, and Presentation packages. Consider including the full version as well.

Looking forward to seeing Puppizard further developed with a wider program selection.

Great work,
Jim

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2199 Location: UK

Iguleder · Posted: Sat 06 Aug 2011, 10:45 Post_subject:

If you run "puppizard" you do it the interactive way, without any means of debugging why something failed or the package you're about to install.

To debug stuff, run "buildpkg", which is the standard way of doing things. It's like apt-get and aptitude - the real work horse and a frontend for it.

Regarding Dash - replace /bin/dash with a symlink to /bin/bash. Dash makes shell scripts way faster and lighter, that's why I use it. Saves RAM, it's nice.

big_bass · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 1736