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[clarf]

Hi,

I´m proud to announce the immediate release of pnethood 0.6.8, this update includes minor GUI changes. The mayor addition is the use of scrollable windows for shares thanks to new features on gtkdialog added by user thunor (http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69188), the code is backward compatible and it enable the new GUI features only if the new gtkdialog version is found.

0.6.8 version is based on my latest 0.6.7 version (http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64206) and latest HairyWill version 0.65 (http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23464).

Fixes:

* Run out of screen space for large number of shares. Needs 0.7.21 gtkdialog version, you can compile latest from https://code.google.com/p/gtkdialog/

* Save button on options window does not close the options child window.

New Features:

* Hanlde servers with lots of shares (using new features in gtkdialog 0.7.21)

* Separate options Window
- Added option to define the minimun number of servers for the initial scan to enable the popup window server list

Credits

Special Thanks to HairyWill who originally developed pnethood, your work is greatly appreciated.

Thanks to thunor for mantaining and developing new features for gtkdialog.

Thanks to the people that helped to make this updated possible and everyone that tested and helped to improve the original version.

Any previous pnethood configuration file (/root/.pnethood/pnethood.rc) must be removed before use this new version. New information is written to the configuration file and previous versions (0.6.6 or earlier) are not supported, there is not problem if you already have pnethood 0.6.7 version.

Greetings,
clarf


EDIT:

pnethood 0.6.8.1 released

This is a quick fix release backward compatible for the password visibility (this is the proper fix discussed below).

I also added width adjustem for the GUI window, it´ll change according to actual display resolution. For 800x600 or lower display resolutions the GUI is set to 400x300, for higher display resolutions the GUI is set to 500x400. To change the deafult size just edit the pnethood executable file and modify the XBOX_SIZE and YBOX_SIZE variables. Needs 0.7.21 gtkdialog version otherwise won´t change in GUI size

[clarf]

I add the 0.7.21 gtkdialog version (r14) compiled in puppy 214X, minimun gtkdialog version needed for new GUI pnethood features.

Regards,
clarf

[Geoffrey]

I have just updated the gtkdialog , I now seem to have a small problem with pnethood 0.6.8, it still works but the password input won't highlight so that whats typed in can be seen.
In other words there is no indication that anything as been inputted, so just wondering if anyone else has found that also or is it just me.

edit: just checked it by replacing gtkdialog to the version posted here and it works fine, so it is the latest version of thunor's that's causing it.
I complied the latest in quirky 1.20 which seems to have complied correctly with no errors.

[clarf]

Hi Geoffrey. Thanks for using pnethood and feedback your test.

I´m glad you could solve your problem, haven`t tried the latest gtkdialog version but if there are problems with it, you should report the issue in the gtkdialog thread or in the project HomePage. Thunor is very diligent solving these kind of bugs.

IF you find any other issue with pnethood, please feel free to report here.

Regards,
clarf

[01micko]

Clarf, seems to work fine in latest Slacko Beta 1, running r220 of gtkdialog.

I have had a feature request.. an adjustment of the GUI size to be a little wider and perhaps not so tall.

Regards , 01micko

[01micko]

Hi again clarf,

With the very latest gtkdialog the password syntax seems to fail.. It's the same in PupDial. There is a backward compatible solution. Just making you aware.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=555419#555419

Cheers

[clarf]

Hi 01micko, thanks for using latest pnethood.

[clarf]

new release (minor fix update) on first post.

clarf

[ttuuxxx]

[clarf]

Hi ttuuxxx,

I didn´t find any backward problem with the r14 release posted here, it should replace the default gtkdialog executable in usr/sbin without problems on 214X. I apologize, I didn´t check what default path is used for each Puppy version so I used the default one when I compiled the source.

Advice for the gtkdialog package users:

The user that loads this package also must check if his Puppy version has a gtkdialog3 symlink and correct this if necessary.

In case of having two gtkdialog binaries then the first coincidence in the "PATH" user environment variable will have priority over others. This is like this, if the PATH variable contains "PATH=/usr/local/bin; /usr/sbin", the system will look on /usr/local/bin path first for the executables given (in this example gtkdialog or gtkdialog3) and if the executable is found then the system will use it and omit the executables on the following /usr/sbin path.

To find what gtkdialog executable the system will lookup and use first, launch "which gtkdialog" and check the path returned.

Regards,
Andrés Caro

[ttuuxxx]

[clarf]

Hi ttuuxxx,

well, there is always a small risk present changing gtkdialog as it´s an important/extensive component.

I don´t habituate to mix such kind of changes (in this case GTK and gtkdialog) releasing new software and don´t wan to affect latest stable 214X either.

Anyway pnethood 0.6.8.1 detects actual gtkdialog version and disable new features when needed, so pnethood is fail safe where gtkdialog has a risk...

In other words, I also bet for a latest stable first.

clarf

[peebee]

Hi there

pnethood works great for me - but I've noticed in all recent puppies that the display isn't quite wide enough.....screenie attached from latest wary5.1.103

Thanks
peebee

[peebee]

Hi there

Just a possible "heads up".........

pnethood on puppies using k3.0.n is saying in dmesg:

[01micko]

peebee,

Working fine here in slacko beta k3.1.10, I've been playing with mount.cifs to day .. same message though but it says kernel 3.2!