Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

flagman · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 21 Location: Flagstaff, AZ

Barry,

Most all of these suggestions are good ones, but we must remain mindful of just what distinguishes Puppy from the rest of the pack. At less than 100MB, Puppy cannot offer ALL the plumbing included in your typical 680+MB distro. What it can, and in my opinion should, do is to offer the best, most efficient collection of solid and reliable applications available, in a package that's easy to use and just works.

I say, let's stay on track in helping you to fulfill Puppy's mission as the most amazing small distro on the planet. Kitchen sinks should not be thrown at Puppies. It's small yummy treats like those found on your menus that keeps Puppies and their owners healthy and happy.

Do what you're best at Barry, and let's let Puppy derivatives handle the heavy lifting.

The Major · Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 47 Location: UK

I vote for the Stardust theme which works well with any blue / grey background (my current favourite is the blue raindrops on). Also very pleased that Barry is thinking about HotPup as this makes Puppy even easier to use.

Ian

JustGreg · Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 785 Location: Connecticut USA

My vote is for Stardust. But, then, I do like the color blue.

Flash · Posted: Sat 15 Mar 2008, 23:23 Post subject:

Barry, as to your request in the developer blog, I have no problem with mtPaint as Puppy's default image viewer. I often have in mind to edit the image anyway. On the other hand I have to admit I haven't used any of the alternatives you mention in the blog. Maybe in a beta version of Puppy the default image viewer could be a simpler program than mtPaint, just to get people like me to try it.

nap44 · Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 108

Fotox is just that IMO. Simple and self explanatory. Maybe include both in the menus. Picture Viewer and Picture Editor. The viewer as the default enabling the user to find and edit if necessary and the editor for heavier work. Not everyone wants the power of mtpaint. Just a small modification to a pic and Fotox is perfect for that.

Cheers
RC

fwilt1 · Joined: 11 Nov 2007 Posts: 8

i like the bold statement
dingo is different, it's nor windows, so stick with your first "dare to be different" colour scheme, just use an Australian landscape.
The schemes colours kinda fit our dusty dry country
jim

Béèm

jeffrey · Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:24 Post subject:

Sorry Barry, I'd vote against the gaudy yellow/orange theme as well. It's the first thing that I change for a more professional look in the office. I want to use Puppy where its a good fit at work, but that theme dosn't help with user perceptions.
Having said that, it's refreshing to see something different.
(Now could we go back to "conservative" again please?)

jeffrey · Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:25 Post subject:

Sorry Barry, I'd vote against the gaudy yellow/orange theme as well. It's the first thing that I change for a more professional look in the office. I want to use Puppy where its a good fit at work, but that theme dosn't help with user perceptions.
Having said that, it's refreshing to see something different.
Now could we go back to "conservative" again please?

jeffrey · Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:26 Post subject:

Sorry Barry, I vote against the gaudy yellow-orange theme as well. It is the first thing that I change for a more professional look in the office. I want to use Puppy where its a good fit at work, but that theme does not help with user perceptions.
Having said that, it is refreshing to see something different.
Now could we go back to a conservative theme again please?

jeffrey · Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:27 Post subject:

Sorry Barry, I vote against the gaudy yellow-orange theme as well. It is the first thing that I change for a more professional look in the office. I want to use Puppy where its a good fit at work, but that theme does not help with user perceptions.
Having said that, it is refreshing to see something different.
Now could we go back to a conservative theme again please.

Seems to be a posting problem at present...

jeffrey · Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:29 Post subject:

Sorry about all those posts - I kept getting debug messages and assumed that the posting had failed.

jeffrey · Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:30 Post subject:

The posting error messages is...

Could not insert new word matches

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error: 145 Table './murga-linux/phpbb_search_wordmatch' is marked as crashed and should be repaired

SQL Request: INSERT INTO phpbb_search_wordmatch (post_id, word_id, title_match) SELECT 182541, word_id, 0 FROM phpbb_search_wordlist WHERE word_text IN ('sorry', 'posts', 'kept', 'getting', 'debug', 'messages', 'assumed', 'posting', 'failed')

Line : 270
File : functions_search.php

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5501 Location: GB

Your point is well made, jeff! Can we have that one more time, please...

PS: I got the debug message, too, but using 'BACK' then 'REFRESH', I discovered, like you, that my message had indeed been entered.
Another task for John!

And now the 'edited' byline is being appended, even when there are no subsequent offerings.

Oh dear! John got to work early this morning, for which we are grateful, but now the index page isn't updating! Sorry, John.

recycler · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 120 Location: New Zealand

has happened to me a lot with puppy 3.01. At first I thought it was the machine I was using - usually a P4. But it has also happened on this compaq presario 2500 laptop and I have discovered the solution is to use puppy 2.17 which is fine. Would be interesting to know what changed though since if it wasn't for this problem I would be using 3.01 now. I'm looking forward to the next version of puppy (can't wait!) but would like to be able to play videos or have a mp3 playing without this problem. BTW the other solution I discovered was to switch desktops, open gxine, minimise it, switch back to first desktop, browse to the mp3 I wanted to play and then gxine would play ok. It is only when starting the display or resizing it that gxine hangs.
Many thanks for the wonderful program!