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sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 586 Location: Philadelphia, PA

The newest Pmusic requires gtkdialog 0.8.3

Where is a version of gtkdialog 0.8.3 which works under Lucid puppy? My primary Puppy is Lucid 5.2.8-005

Thanks,
Sheldon

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4380 Location: Ontario

sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 586 Location: Philadelphia, PA

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 2420 Location: Germany

Hi.

Here is my output on gtkdialog:

GtkDialog, which is a link to gtkdialog3

sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 586 Location: Philadelphia, PA

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RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 2420 Location: Germany

I think you did not really understand my question the right way.

As you can see in my gtkdialog output, the gtkdialog4 binary version is 0.8.0

You posted a gtkdialog version 0.8.4 - also from a gtkdialog4 binary.

I want to know:

- is this file wrong renamed to gtkdialog4 after compiling?
- or is every new gtkdialog binary 0.8.0 and above renamed after compiling to gtkdialog4 - from now on

Thanks

RSH

Edit:

Or will this confusing all users/developers of Puppy Linux in the future and therefor adding a big minus to the related big list of minuses on installing and using applications? Wink

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4380 Location: Ontario

Shouldn't you guys stick to the same naming convention that
Barry Kauler uses. He hasn't advanced to gtkdialog5.

I try to stick to his methods as close as possible.

Barry likes to make gtkdialog4 the application and gtkdialog the link.

This is an image of Exprimo which does it differently.

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pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5470 Location: Finland

I follow the logic explained by 01micko at some time when the debate about gtkdialog naming was hot. Due to incompatilities of improved version at that time. I wont go to the details. They can be found from the gtkdialog thread.

But 01micko posted this idea, to use one improved gtkdialog binary only...and the others are symlinks. If there is incompatibility the idea was that those gtkdialog apps should be updated by the developer.

I have gone with this logic since then...as 01micko.

So....there is diversity...Barry Kauler do the naming his way....some others other way. But there has not been much problems with it,

Also....01micko and I use the latest gtkdialog version at the time. Barry updates woof slower.

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sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 586 Location: Philadelphia, PA

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futwerk · Joined: 07 May 2011 Posts: 320

new backgrounds.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2543 Location: near here

regarding installing chrome, are the following two steps still required for the latest packages?

Atle · Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 588 Location: Oslo, Norway

Its been soon a year since last version of this excellent Puppy was released (5.2.8.005)... Now I wonder if there are anyone around with the idea of releasing a newer version like a 006. We are then close to the 007 version, that I feel could have a slight James Bond theme:-)

I think 5.2.8 has a long life as Precise might never overcome the problematic PAE issue, that makes it useless to me, as its no longer one distro for all, but two versions of the same whereas some works on this and other on that machine. Very confusing for most users and also a small step backwards in the sense of users loosing faith in the distro as one downloads the "flagship" and it does not even boot if this and that hardware is not present.

I seem to remember that Lucid newer missed out on one single boot for as long as I can remember.

Anyhow... Anyone with ideas about a new version of Lucid?

Best

Atle