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#221 Post by don570 »

I tried out 'Akita'
It has the fastest menus I have seen!!
My biggest wish is for a windows list,
so I can quickly see a list of all my open windows.
I may have a huge number open.

Is there any software to do that. The ICEWM has
a tray icon to list the ROX windows.

Opening HTML files without a browser is a pain.
Is there any small sized HTML viewer available.
I thought Puppy used to have an HTML viewer to
open the opening welcome window, but Seamonkey
had to be installed I believe.
http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/hv3.html
I'll check out this site for software.


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htmlviewer

#222 Post by don570 »

I made a crude htmlviewer by launching the terminal and running elinks

It always opens with an error message though.
Is there any way to get rid of that :roll:

It shows the page reasonably well and it's fast.

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#223 Post by don570 »

Here are some of my initial comments, having spent last
night using 'Akita'

1) You need to upgrade zathura GUI
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 276#556276

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The Softmaker office suite

#224 Post by don570 »

2) The Softmaker office suite is available again
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 56&t=69606

Since you don't have Abiword installed
it might be useful to have a Start menu item
that launched the following

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defaultbrowser http://www.softmakeroffice.com/register_en.htm
It might be a limited time offer, but still.....

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#225 Post by don570 »

3) mtpaint and mhwaveedit should be uptodate.


http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 2&start=60

Note:
I compiled mhwaveedit to open the Retrovol audio mixer.

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3) I noticed a lot of Geany icons. You just have to duplicate
Barry Kauler work


4) Bacon recorder is a good replacement for precord
but it needs lame to be installed for mp3 recording

5) If pupsnap isn't localized there is a simple
replacement psnapshot

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 65&t=70996


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#226 Post by don570 »

I like pclock .35. It requires pschedule 1.0 or 1.02

It could replace the much bigger lightsword alarm

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Re: htmlviewer

#227 Post by technosaurus »

don570 wrote:I made a crude htmlviewer by launching the terminal and running elinks

It always opens with an error message though.
Is there any way to get rid of that :roll:

It shows the page reasonably well and it's fast.

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I dont have elinks installed but ...
usr/local/apps...Apprun

exec rxvt -title "$@" -geometry "150x40-0+0" -e elinks -no-numbering -no-references -no-connect -force-html "$@" /dev/null 2>/dev/null &

exec rxvt -title "$@" -geometry "150x40-0+0" -e elinks -no-numbering -no-references -no-connect -force-html "$@" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
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#228 Post by sc0ttman »

don570,

Thanks for the feedback and testing.. I have made some changes, some of which were in the pipeline anyway, but I brought them forward so they'll be in the next ISO..

As for an HTML viewer - I got the best!! Elinks is very light, LOADS of features and works without X... No other can beat that! ;)

Yes, there's probably too many timer apps, but the are all tiny - even lightsword total about 50kb.. No point removing them..

I will update the /usr/local/bin/defaulthtmlviewer file, and a few others, so they use elinks out of the box. I will keep the browser-installer as the defaultbrowser - so its easy to install the one you want...

I also have updated mtpaint - which means I had to add jasper to make it work. So that's an extra 250kb added, at least... :( Nothing else needs jasper - can't mtpaint be compiled without? If so, what features would be missing without jasper?

But I updated mhwaveedit, its 5kb smaller, and I removed a lot of icons in /usr/share/icons, replacing some with symlinks to other actual icons, found elsewhere.. I also updated pschedule to 1.0.2, and added its NLS package as well.. There was no real need, but I thought I might as well..

Lame is already included BTW. I will add pupsnapshot and its NLS (still needs Russian), but I will not remove PupSnap - it's too good. I've yet to add Zathura GUI - there's too many right click options in there, I need to have a look at the package, cut it down and then add it..

** EDIT:: don, please look at the Zathura GUI thing, especially loading it from the menu, nearly always get a 'file not found' error when loading anything from my mounted drives (/media/Home [sda1]/files/downloads/***.pdf, to be precise)
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#229 Post by technosaurus »

** EDIT:: don, please look at the Zathura GUI thing, especially loading it from the menu, nearly always get a 'file not found' error when loading anything from my mounted drives (/media/Home [sda1]/files/downloads/***.pdf, to be precise)
Probably needs quotes around the ${file} ... common breakage with spaces or special characters
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#230 Post by sc0ttman »

technosaurus wrote:
** EDIT:: don, please look at the Zathura GUI thing, especially loading it from the menu, nearly always get a 'file not found' error when loading anything from my mounted drives (/media/Home [sda1]/files/downloads/***.pdf, to be precise)
Probably needs quotes around the ${file} ... common breakage with spaces or special characters
Yeah I've done that just now, gonna give it a test.. Needed a bit of hacking to be Akita-friendly as well... But should work OK now, let's see...

***EDIT:

Seems to be working OK now :) good stuff...

I hope to get a new ISO up very soon, here is what I want to do next:

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- i18n wizardwizard, xserverwizard, input-wzard
- get ES translations for frugalinstaller, xorgwizard, pupshutdownconfig, others
- get FR translations for eventmanager, others
- speed up the PPM, especially the dep-check function
- speed up whatever happens immediately after clicking on a .pet in the PPM (seems to take ages)
- get wifi working on my EeePC 1000HA!
- maybe make xorgwizard find the 'intel' driver first time! (it works)
- updated PupControl to 1.6.6 (thx 2 radky)
- test the 'wizardpen' driver
- find things to remove (large things, not 20kb apps)
- GUI for zdrv_cutr
- OpenGL installer
- Quickpet thing
And here's an update of what I've done recently:

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- updated /usr/sbin/delayedrun,flash-get
	- added auto flash install check thing to end of delayedrun, hacked to run flash-get
	- also, flash-get now auto-installs the flash-player-preferences stuff if Flash-10 was installed

- added french .mo translation file, for net-setup
- i18n'd pcdripper, added english and spanish .mo files
- i18n'd eventmanager, added english and spanish .mo files
- re-added i18n'd pup-advert-blocker! (no idea what happened there - .. EDIT... firedog!)
- fixed /usr/sbin/petget, "ABORT INSTALL" button now actually works again.. cutting edge stuff  ;)

- updated all in /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/locale/... from wary511q
- updated drivers-alternate, input/ and linux/ in /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/... from wary511q
- updated to Xorg binary from wary51x (saves 300kb)

- updated browser-installer to 1.1
	- now checks if browser already installed, and asks to run it
	- now asks to run newly installed browser, if it installed OK
	- updated translations
	
- fixed woofy: cp commands now use --remove-destination
- updated jwm_menu_create to 0.4, then customised
	- added translations, added 'business' category, added 'refresh menus' entry, now uses 'puppyhelp' for Help entry
- added puppyhelp GUI from shinobar/L18L... still keeping old customised 'pman'
	- updated JWM menu to use puppyhelp (/etc/xdg,jwm_menu_create,puppydesktop)
- updated fixmenus
	 - now simply loads jwm_menu_create
	 - restart jwm if running
- updated initrd.gz
	- contains printf - cos rc.sysnit now uses printf, and ash
- updated mtpaint and mhwaveedit
- added jasper, libjasper (required for mtpaint)
- updated zathura_gui and pschedule, added NLS for both
- updated indexgen.sh - now just exits, does nothing... 
	- so dropdown in main help page not updated by PPM
	- (it mostly just loads a google search page anyway!)
- added /usr/share/doc/welcome1stboot (also de, ru)
- updated /usr/share/doc/nls: now contains all relevant apps
- added icons from Wary512 to /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons
- cleaned up icons in /usr/share/pixmaps and /usr/share/icons
- added more translations to .desktop files (definitely need checking!!)
- i18n'd pcdripper: added de and ru
- updated 23oz jwm theme, really nice now
- removed Asunder and RipOff, we still have pcdripper, pCD and pmusic!
- updated defaulthtmlviewer and defaultbarehtmlviewer, now use elinks 

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#231 Post by sc0ttman »

I've attached an i18n'd pppoe.. I think rodin.s made it...

Anyway, wuwei, if you can test this and report back how it works, that will be great (NOTE, it does not yet include my update for auto-symlinking to /root/Startup, after successful connection)...

I hope you can open this archive!
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#232 Post by technosaurus »

here is the start of a script to optimize the contents of a directory (for example before you run dir2sfs for the pupXXX.sfs)

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#!/bin/sh
for FILE in `find $1`; do
	case `file ${FILE}` in
		*XML*)xmllint --noblanks ${FILE} > ${FILE}~ && mv -f ${FILE}~ ${FILE} || rm -f ${FILE}~ ;;
		*PNG*)optipng -o7 ${FILE} &;;
		*JPEG*)jpegtran -optimize -copy none ${FILE} > ${FILE}~ && mv -f ${FILE}~ ${FILE} || rm -f ${FILE}~ ;;
		*"gzip compressed data"*)zcat ${FILE}|gzip -c9 > ${FILE}~ && mv -f ${FILE}~ ${FILE} || rm -f ${FILE}~ ;;
		*"bzip2 compressed data"*)bzcat ${FILE}|bzip2 -c9 > ${FILE}~ && mv -f ${FILE}~ ${FILE} || rm -f ${FILE}~ ;;
		*"xz compressed data"*)xzcat ${FILE}|xz -cze9 > ${FILE}~ && mv -f ${FILE}~ ${FILE} || rm -f ${FILE}~ ;;
		*"ELF 32-bit LSB shared object"*)strip --strip-unneeded -R .note -R .comment ${FILE};;
		*"ELF 32-bit LSB executable"*)strip --strip-all -R .note -R .comment ${FILE};;

		#*"Zip archive data"*)unzip ${FILE}; zip -9ym .....;;#TODO (zip doesnt do pipes and extracts to multiple dirs/files vs a single file)
		*);;
	esac
done

rdfind $1
defaulttexteditor results.txt
#DEV,DOC,#NLS? see new2dir
#static libs *"current ar archive"*
needs rdfind and optipng ... the rest are in DEVX
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elinks opening up HRML

#233 Post by don570 »

elinks opening up HTML

I discovered what was causing the error message
when I opened up an HTML file. This version should
work with no error message.
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#234 Post by don570 »

Why not upgrade yaf-splash?
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01805

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Why isn't Notecase installed?

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Is the icon pmusic 1.8.3 can replace pcd and Asunder.
It can even do some conversions. So if you're looking
to cut the size down further there's lots of applications
that can be axed. Bacon recorder replaces precord.

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#235 Post by wuwei »

sc0ttman wrote:I've attached an i18n'd pppoe.. I think rodin.s made it...

Anyway, wuwei, if you can test this and report back how it works, that will be great (NOTE, it does not yet include my update for auto-symlinking to /root/Startup, after successful connection)...

I hope you can open this archive!
Yes it works fine, thank you.

I unpacked the archive and copied the contents of the folder "pppoe" into /usr/sbin, overriding any previous relevant files. Reboot and the connection is established. (This was in an existing savefile).
Same success in a fresh pfix=ram and no savefile. It works with fixed DNS and with DNS unset.
So, this is good.


The only thing I am not sure of is....what did you change?

PS: When starting pfix=ram I noticed that the Personalized Settings come up twice. Once as they should immediately after booting, and the second time after restarting X. Is that intentionally?

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FFconvert

#236 Post by wuwei »

This application apparently misses some codecs.

I tried to convert a small MPG to AVI with xvid and mp3 codec. No dice. It seems to be missing the needed codecs. You might want to look into the same program in Lucid 528. Seems to have no problems there.

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#237 Post by wuwei »

Usually Puppy has mtpaint screen shot, which is fine for entire screen shots.
Akita contains PupSnap and that has much more options.
But...it is not retaining the settings from a previous shot. And with 8 positions to fill in, that is a bit cumbersome to do for each and every little shot.

I'd prefer all settings to be saved, once a shot is taken. With the next one, I can just change the file name, maybe the location, but retain all other 6 or 7 positions.

Tried the /usr/local/pupsnap directory, but couldn't find anything where one would change the default settings.

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#238 Post by sc0ttman »

technosaurus wrote:here is the start of a script to optimize the contents of a directory (for example before you run dir2sfs for the pupXXX.sfs)
That's awesome, I tried running strip on a dir, before rebuilding as an SFS, but it crashed my PC - had to reboot.. I think it had something to do with absolute symlinks pointing to files in my actual filesystem... But I'm gonna try yours today :D Thanks
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#239 Post by sc0ttman »

Thanks for elinks right click pet, don... Added :)
don570 wrote:Why not upgrade yaf-splash?
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01805
Many scripts rely on its timer function, as 01micko states at the bottom, I like zigbert and 01micko, prefer yaf-splash where possible. I may add gtkdialog-splash, as its tiny, but I don't think anything needs it.. And the VAST majority of scripts that use it, do not use the only function it has, that is worth adding - UTF8 support..
Why isn't Notecase installed?
Notecase is big, I dont use it myself, its in the PPM if anyone wants it.. Pupphelp-101 is a good reason to have it, but it's not localised.. The final release will contain a custom, localised help file. I might include only the Pupphelp-101 file, so it can be easily viewed after installing notecase.
If the icon pmusic 1.8.3 can replace pcd and Asunder.
It can even do some conversions. So if you're looking
to cut the size down further there's lots of applications
that can be axed. Bacon recorder replaces precord.
And yes, I could remove pCD and pcdripper and Pawdioconvert - using only pmusic for CD ripping and audio conversion, but they total about 60kb, so there's not much point, really.. I could just as easily remove a wallpaper image.

I have no problem with precord, why remove it? It works fine, doesn't it? What advantages does Bacon recorder have?

**EDIT: I'm probably gonna add bacon recorder anyway, its small, its got NLS, its got right click options.. right?
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#240 Post by sc0ttman »

wuwei wrote:The only thing I am not sure of is....what did you change?
The pppoe GUI and terminal messages should be localised, at least in German, I think, I'll have to re-check, it might be Russian... But the important thing is that it connected the same, with no problems.. :D
PS: When starting pfix=ram I noticed that the Personalized Settings come up twice. Once as they should immediately after booting, and the second time after restarting X. Is that intentionally?
shinobar did this intentionally.. I agree that it doesn't seem to make much sense when switching locales, but after switching Xorg settings, then it does make sense to see it again. I have often thought about skipping the 'Personalize Settings' GUI after it's been run once and X restarted, moving straight onto 'Step 2' instead... Not sure how to do this just yet...
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