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[musher0]

Edit:
Don't forget to apply the patch in the next post. Sorry about that.
musher0

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Hello all.

Presenting version 0.9.7.9

MRUF-lst-0.9.7.9 Changes

Mostly under the hood.

-- Redid the find routines for the browsers, so got rid of the former FinD
function. Because of it, the tree utility is a new requirement.

-- Fine-tuned the MZ browsers section to include light, firefox, mozilla,
seamonkey. Untested for seamonkey and firefox, I don't have them on
this machine. Please report on your use if you have a minute. Thanks.

-- If there is a bookmarks.html file at the 1st level of an MZ browser, you
can access it directly as a page in the browser. This is for convenience.

-- Added a routine to detect if the xbel file exists or is empty. This is
important on a new install, where the machine does not have much
history. We tend to forget those things! If there is no xbel file or if it has
no entries, a reminder is shown on screen to continue chugging along for
a little while longer before using the MRUF-lst. (Illustration attached.)

-- Changed the File handling. xdg-open is still the main guy, but I felt there
was a need to detect some types of files with more precision. Namely all
the compressed formats, since on Puppy we have UExtract and sfs_load.
This task is now done through an if...elif...elif...else structure.

-- About the sqlitemanager loading the MZ browsers' places.sqlite file, I
discovered that sqlitemanager does not have routines to handle command
line positional parameters. So we're out of luck. I tried improving the
sqlitemanager.sh script to get into the file's directory, but it does not
seem to help. Oh, well. Some things in life one cannot improve!*

As a consolation prize, I discovered that there are at least two Firefox
plug-ins for this: "Places maintenance" and "Places to SQL". The latter is
experimental as of this writing, but both may be worth a try to facilitate
history management if you're using an MZ browser.

Interface --
-- I re-re-did the Description and Credits panel drawing on the power of
ANSI-codes and of the native urxvt URL handling. In that panel, you can
now click on its URL to view the text of the GPL3, for instance.

-- sqlite menu and entry moved from the system sub-menu to the apps
sub-menu. (Illustrations attached.)


Forecast --
-- I've been studying Barry Kauler's "condensed directory" version a bit. I
may come up with my own take on a "one-place" version some time.

-- Looking behind, a lot of ground was covered: when I started out on this
project, Puppy had no history app. Looking ahead, still more ground to
cover: a lot of apps have histories, which I don't know exist! Shucks!

That said, MRUF-lst is very, very usable as it is, even if it does not give
access to the history of each and every app that provides one. Even as it
is, for me and hopefully for you too, it has become a tremendous time
saver. So I'll take a breather for now. Thanks to all who gave me a hand
in some form.

Talk with you later. Have a great day!

musher0

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* By comparison, to have Vivaldi display its history directly, you type

[musher0]

Hello again.

As of this writing, one (1) person has downloaded MRUF-lst-0.9.7.9.
With me, that makes two (2) users. ROFL

So... for that person... here's a patch for component file vars.GEN1.

I don't know where my head was yesterday evening. I left a "$variable"
in a sourced variables file...

Please download the attached file, unzip, make executable and run.

The skeptics will have to eat crow: with this patch, MRUF-lst will now
actually run.

Until next error! BFN.

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[Pelo]

downloaded once from my side. refused at use because of aewm missing, and other stuff.
And you blaimed me as a user, bad user.
So there is one downloader to find who he is .. Wait for his questions. He will soon appear.
Users are so rare, either they put in they mind to become developers, or they went away.. Like mohicans, soon will come when you will have only one : Pelo

[torm]

As a sidenote, I know it doesn't make all that difference.. then,
does the GTK2 theme "really" need all them Aurora and Rezlooks engines?



.. it does appear in the global theme folder.

[musher0]

Note, Aug. 5 2017, 1h40 -- The "noexecs" pet is new. Please see below.
Sorry for any inconvenience. musher0

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Hello again all.

Please find attached version 0.9.8.1. (I did not release 0.9.8.publicly.)

Changes, in a nutshell:

-- Builds / refreshes now in +/- 3 seconds. It may take up to 8 seconds if
you have a big recently-used.xbel file. I'm quite happy about this, since in
an early version, someone reported MRUF taking up to a minute to start.

How do you do that? Simple! You find an imaginative way to replace
slowpoke utilities such as sort, and you put the LC_ALL=C variable nearer
the top of the script.

-- Support for MZ browsers is almost dropped, except if you have a
bookmarks.html file in the directory.

The reason is that it's much simpler for the user to access the history of
his/her MZ browser from within the MZ browser. I touched upon the
complexity of what is happening here in a previous post. (By "MZ
browser", I mean Firefox, Seamonkey,Palemoon & Co.)

By comparison, opening the Vivaldi history in Vivaldi from a script such as
MRUF is easy. This is not a comment about Vivaldi being better. The way
the two browsers work is different, that's all.)

Nevertheless, you can still run your MZ browser from MRUF if you have a
bookmarks.html file in its user directory. Also, if you have a need to
process the places.sqlite database, you can still access it from MRUF, as
before, through the sqlitemanager.sh menu item.

I may revisit this decision later (I read that Firefox will be undergoing
major changes shortly), but for now I think this is the logical thing to do.
MRUF is meant to process histories, not databases!

I added two lines as a reminder of this in the help panel.

-- Small typographic changes: better centering of titles, added tabs
here and there, that sort of thing.

-- Presenting the MRUF in two pets from now on will make it easier
to align the 64-bit and 32-bit versions. This means that you need to
download and install the two attached pets, please. For those who need
them, the 64-bit execs are available here.

Enjoy!

BFN.

[musher0]

Received by PM yesterday:

[musher0]

Hello all.

I provided a new "noexecs" pet for MRUF-lst-0.9.8.1, here. There was a
slight error in the Chromium section. Thanks to French member petihar
for allowing me to rectify this.

I apologize for any inconvenience.

Have a great day!

[musher0]

Hello all.

The following are the changes for MRUF-lst, version 0.9.8.2, released on
this day, Aug. 6 2017.

Changes --
-- Code rationalisation and clean-up.

I thought I had seriously broken my script... It wouldn't run at all. Until,
with "set -xe" on, I got a message saying that I had exceeded the line
length on line 126.

I had put too many -o in a row. As in
"if [ this -o that -o the other thing ];then...".

I had six rather elaborate conditions in all, and the maximum line length
had been exceeded.

Mind you, the man 2 page for execve says it should be 128 Kb. So maybe
geany imposes an articial limit.

In any case, I teamed the arguments by pairs and now things are back to
normal.

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This segment now reads:

[musher0]

Hello all.

After a few more days of work, here is version 0.9.8.5. Probably the most
mature yet. I'll go easy on the snapshots this time, I gave you too many
already!

Changes, MRUF-lst-0.9.8.5, 2017/08/10
-----------------------------------------------------

All material needed to run this script is now under directory
/usr/local/MRUF-lst, except the launcher and the MRUF-lst.desktop file.
Please see attached tree.

##

As to the scripts themselves, first, two new ones:
-- sqlite3-places-5a.sh uses sqlite3 and awk to search for places.sqlite DB's,
and makes available a short history menu to the MRUF-lst main script in the
appropriate Mozilla browser sub-menus. It is a variant of the one presented
here yesterday.

-- a refreshed sqlitemanager.sh (a launcher for the 32-bit SQLiteManager
Mozilla browser extension). Also, this script is not shown anymore in the
menu if the user does not have the SQLiteManager DB processor.

##

Many lines in the main script have undergone path changes because of the
centralization. Clockmaker's work, that... Additionally:

-- two new LC_ALL lines were introduced around the routine creating the
sub-menus for the Puppy packages and for the personal documents lists.
The dates in the packages and personal documents sub-menus now follow
the format of the LANG variable -- as they should.

-- automatic incorporation of the MZ browsers short history(ies), if the user
has created them, as mentioned in the following paragraph;

-- the new script sqlite3-places-5.sh was placed alongside the SQLite-
Manager in the sub-menu so the user can create or re-create as needed
these short MZbrowser histories, simply by clicking on this menu item;

-- the MRUF-lst-gtkrc.sh launcher has been moved to /usr/bin;

-- the choice of font sizes offered is now down to sizes 13, 14 and 15.
Larger and smaller sizes were disrupting the menu layout;

-- I rewrote the comments in file /root/.aewm/ae/aepanel-custom.gtkrc.
Hopefully they are clearer now. This is a great feature of GTK2;

-- I gave the Bash & System sub-menu a thorough shape-up and check;

-- various minor code edits and clean-ups.

##

Tests of this version were successful on the following Puppies:
DPupStretch-7.0, TahrPup-6.0 and 6.02, and Triton. Feedback about use
on your Pup is welcome.

Tested with the following browsers: the old Opera 12.16, the new Opera
45, Chromium 60 (peebee's), Seamonkey 2.46, Light 49 (32-bit), links2,
and Vivaldi 1.99. Only Chromium does not load its history
(chrome://history) directly. If your mileage varies, please let me know.

I tested MRUF-lst with the following window managers : aewm, icewm,
jwm, and wmx. I thought for a moment that there could be interference
because of the secondary GTK2 theme. but there is none whatsoever.
MRUF-lst Is WM-agnostic,

Finally, v. 0.9.8.4 was not published because it served as the draft for
this version.

##

I think this will the last log out of this Canadian lumber mill unless one of
you users suggests some important missing feature. As for me, I'm fresh
out of ideas!

As usual, constructive and improvement-oriented comments are welcome.

Enjoy!

Chris (aka musher0)

[musher0]

Hello all.

Some users may be upset by the fact that the apps called from within
MRUF-lst will show with the MRUF-lst GTK2 theme during the MRUF-lst
session.

Here is how to have those apps keep their original GTK2 theme when
called from within a MRUF-lst session.

Please read the comments in the script below; they explain why this may
be needed and how to do and undo it, plus various other details.

It requires the replaceit utility. Replaceit is in the MRUF-lst "exec" pet
archive. If you want to use this script in another context, you'll need to
find replaceit separately. (There's a 32-bit version on the forum.)

This script will be included in the next version of MRUF-lst.

BFN.

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[musher0]

Hello all.

This version, 0.9.8.6, incorporates support for media player Vlc.
(Please see attached screenshot.)

Another important change is that the the fetching routine for the MZ
history items works in parallel, if no MZ sub-menus are detected, as
MRUF-lst is loading. We gain a bit of execution time this way. These
items are now available from the start, but the user can still refresh
them as needed via the menu.

Also, some code was cleaned, and I removed old interim files from
the pet-building directory. As a result, this pet archive is smaller than
the one for the previous version.

Have a great day!

[musher0]

Edit -- Deprecated. Please use version 0.9.8.7a, available here.
Thanks. musher0

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Hello again all.

Here is version 0.9.8.7. What is new is that the font and skin in use are
flagged in the menu with a small arrow next to its name. (Please see
attached screenshot.)

If there is no arrow alongside any skin, simply choose one (or re-select
the one you have). Typically, this will happen on first run; after that, the
arrow will be shown.

Also, for convenience, from now on, MRUF-lst will be presented in three
pet archives: the execs (32-bit or 64-bit), the "decor" (default fonts and
theme), and the script with its satellite files.

This way, those who already have the decor files and the executables will
only need to download the "no-execs" pet to keep up to date.

Have a great day!

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P.S. The 64-bit execs are here, for those wondering.

[musher0]

Hello all.

In version above, in script MRUF-lst-0.9.8.7.sh located at
/usr/local/MRUF-lst/bin, please insert the following three lines between lines
647 and 648, save and restart MTUF-lst.

[B.K. Johnson]

Disclaimer:
I have not read most of the posts in the thread, so if there are any comments below that are not apropos, accept my apologies.

I was the 2nd downloader of MRUF-lst-0.9.7.9.pet, but unlike Pelo I did not run it. I read the requirements and did not have to go through Pelo's torture.

[musher0]