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flagman
Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 21 Location: Flagstaff, AZ
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Posted: Sat 15 Mar 2008, 00:52 Post subject:
Let's not loose sight of Puppy's prime directive. Subject description: Puppy's are inherently small creatures |
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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.
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The Major
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 47 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat 15 Mar 2008, 03:20 Post subject:
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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
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JustGreg
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 785 Location: Connecticut USA
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Posted: Sat 15 Mar 2008, 18:02 Post subject:
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My vote is for Stardust. But, then, I do like the color blue.
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Flash
Official Dog Handler

Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 13392 Location: Arizona USA
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Posted: Sat 15 Mar 2008, 23:23 Post subject:
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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.
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nap44
Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 108
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Posted: Sun 16 Mar 2008, 04:31 Post subject:
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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
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fwilt1
Joined: 11 Nov 2007 Posts: 8
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Posted: Sun 16 Mar 2008, 05:54 Post subject:
theme Subject description: citrus for me |
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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
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Béèm

Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Posts: 11775 Location: Brussels IBM Thinkpad R40, 256MB, 20GB, WiFi ipw2100. Frugal Lin'N'Win
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Posted: Sun 16 Mar 2008, 18:29 Post subject:
Re: Citrus Theme Subject description: Citrus Theme |
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FuturePerfect wrote: | I vote fof the Citrus Theme as the default in Dingo. Like the bold statement it makes. | Me too.
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jeffrey
Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:24 Post subject:
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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?)
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jeffrey
Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:25 Post subject:
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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?
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jeffrey
Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:26 Post subject:
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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?
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jeffrey
Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:27 Post subject:
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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...
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jeffrey
Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:29 Post subject:
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Sorry about all those posts - I kept getting debug messages and assumed that the posting had failed.
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jeffrey
Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 00:30 Post subject:
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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
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Sage
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5501 Location: GB
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Posted: Mon 17 Mar 2008, 02:22 Post subject:
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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.
Last edited by Sage on Mon 17 Mar 2008, 07:47; edited 3 times in total
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recycler

Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 120 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Tue 18 Mar 2008, 00:47 Post subject:
re minor problem with gzxine Subject description: gxine hangs |
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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!
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