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[don570]

The mouse is too lively in the recent kernels used by Puppy linux.
Unwanted double clicks are frequent and dragging a file can be difficult.

One thing I always do is un-tick 'Single click navigation' and this helps.

I wanted a simple way to copy a file. Microsoft Windows has a right click
menu for copying a file to a USB stick.

So I made an equivalent right click for Puppy but put more features in it.

Locations can be easily added. Also right click on a folder and the
entire folder can be copied.

It has been gettext'd for foreign translators.

Note that in Puppy Linux, /mnt/home is where your frugal install is located.


Notes:
It works with Rox Filer or Thunar file manager.
Use a recent version of Gtkdialog
There is an incompatibility with pwidgets explained in next post.




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[don570]

I believe that there is an incompatibility with Pwidgets

I use an invisible entry box to form the 'Add' button.
Here is the code. See 'visible='false''



When I tested on Precise NOP note that the invisible entry box
is visible . The app can still be used.

[R-S-H]

[Flash]

Don, will it copy in the order the files are numbered? When I copy mp3 files to my mp3 player, I have to use rsync -a because simply dragging and dropping or using cp from the command line results in the files being transferred (copied) in some semi-random order. That causes a problem because every mp3 player I've tried so far ignores the file names and instead plays the files in the order they were loaded into the mp3 player. Somehow rsync -a forces the files to be loaded in numerical order, which is the way I want them to play.

[R-S-H]

Hi.

The GUI appears after doing a right-click onto a file and choosing copy to.... If I'm clicking then the "add a folder to list" button and am closing the file selector gui by its top right close button, the copy process begins to start without any warning, when the file is not already available.

I did this accidentally after right clicking a directory (for testings) containing around 8 GB of files. Since the destination directory was /root/Downloads and the process could not be stopped I've had to watch the directory /root/Downloads and pressing ctrl-a from time to time to remove these files to avoid system crash while writing into empty RAM (have only 1.5 GB) - for some minutes!

Was not funny!

Also:

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[R-S-H]

Ok, I see.

I would have to use my LazY Precise for this.

Thanks for the info.

RSH

[don570]

Momanager doesn't have to be installed, but it's the easiest way
if it is.

I think poedit will do the translation if the xgettext is installed.

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[don570]

New version 1.6

improvements

1) I switched to 'rsync -a' to copy a folder

2) help button to give location of the list of copied files

3) A folder is updated with new files
when a folder with same name is in the destination location.

4) pot file available for translators. File in and send back.

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[scsijon]

I am getting the problem on a wary 5392 (my default online satellite machine).

I shall test on the others later and update this, but this is what i was getting on all three.

I have attached a image with a fake .gz for your perusal.

regards
scsijon

UPDATED: Interesting, for my wary/racy pre 5.5 (5.4.90/3) and 5.5 without the service pack have problems, add the service pack, it's gone. I shall have to update my others as I do like your little package. Sorry for the trouble.

[don570]

To scsijon ....

If you could track down the source of the bug that would be useful.

I don't think the version of gtkdialog makes any difference.

Pwidgets does some monkeying around with the gtkdialog theme.
I suspect that.

What is the gtkdialog theme when the visibility bug occurs.

Does the upgrade change this theme??


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[don570]

version 1.7

I worked on suggestions by RSH

1) Changed window placement to "2"

2) I looked into the problem with the close box
and I discovered that I didn't understand the importance
of the variable EXIT when relaunching program .
I think that this is now fixed in version 1.7.

Now unintended copying won't take place.

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[don570]

version 1.8

Buttons are wider to accept foreign translations.

I tried an Arabic translation