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#271 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 12:28

I compiled the latest Pidgin with SSL and Working MSN, would be good for the repo but not that default, due to the 3.8MB pet in size.
ttuuxxx

http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 3-i386.pet
Also I compiled the automake and autoconfig download below, they are full dev+files for the compiler, I made them into tar.gz for easy extraction, no need as pets due to the fact that they need to be installed to the devx compiler

hope that helps a bit
ttuuxxx

#272 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 16:00

here's a picture of Seamonkey 1.1.11 with the Mostly Crystal theme installed as default theme, I removed the original Seamonkey theme and replaced it saving space.
Then I hacked the code a bit and added a user quick launch bar, and added the home button, Then I added my 5 extra searches from FirePup , added a printer quick launch and this is what it looks like.
ttuuxxx

WhoDo · #273 Post by **WhoDo** » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:14

ttuuxxx wrote:here's a picture of Seamonkey 1.1.11 with the Mostly Crystal theme installed as default theme, I removed the original Seamonkey theme and replaced it saving space.
Then I hacked the code a bit and added a user quick launch bar, and added the home button, Then I added my 5 extra searches from FirePup , added a printer quick launch and this is what it looks like.

Does this mean that Seamonkey-1.1.14 is a no show? Have you resolved the Insert key crash on your recompile of 1.1.11?

Here is a pic of my Seamonkey with Seafox theme, CuteMenus and Monkey Menus - the latter allows easy addition of functions to the main icon bar as shown, much like Firefox.

Firepup hasn't missed a beat either!

#274 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 21:02

WhoDo wrote:
ttuuxxx wrote:here's a picture of Seamonkey 1.1.11 with the Mostly Crystal theme installed as default theme, I removed the original Seamonkey theme and replaced it saving space.
Then I hacked the code a bit and added a user quick launch bar, and added the home button, Then I added my 5 extra searches from FirePup , added a printer quick launch and this is what it looks like.
Does this mean that Seamonkey-1.1.14 is a no show? Have you resolved the Insert key crash on your recompile of 1.1.11?

Here is a pic of my Seamonkey with Seafox theme, CuteMenus and Monkey Menus - the latter allows easy addition of functions to the main icon bar as shown, much like Firefox.

Firepup hasn't missed a beat either!

Naa I haven't given up on it, Just had a break,from it and was bored lol
Yours looks great also. The One I did came with tons of menu icons and actually was a bit on the large size due to all the icons in the theme.
ttuuxxx

aragon · #275 Post by **aragon** » Wed 14 Jan 2009, 13:22

attached find an updated intltool-package for devx.

cheers
aragon

edoc · #276 Post by **edoc** » Fri 16 Jan 2009, 02:35

ttuuxxx wrote:is Gxine still buggy in 4.12 or 4.2, I'm using 4.1 at the present and it crashes really easy compared to 4.0 was there an upgrade or shall I say downgrade?
Here's an example that I posted in the Living water thread
If you leave a space at the end of a url stream by accident, it freezes then you have to kill it, but it stays running so then you have to run Pprocess and manually kill it
try this link and include a space at the end of the url before hitting enter for 4.12 users.

rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra

also I had it crash when trying to resize a movie video, and also it wouldn't play some normal formats, Gxine usually has some small issues but these are new ones for me, also maybe it just needs to be recompiled, I can't do it because I'm running live, When I compile live 90% of the apps work, but GXxine is one that I doesn't.
Any takers? I'll test anything released.
ttuuxxx

Cannot help with recompiling, don't know how.

I can share that in 4.12-Normal Frugal ext3 I have had problems I did not have in 4.11 and 4.11 and 4.12 lot that I did not have in 4

Right now I am observing gxine crashing when I close a window in GodTube.

I have been unable to use CUPS since updating from 4.11 to 4.12 (had some problems in 4.11 but 4.12 is impossible).

No idea if the CUPS problems are related to gxine in any way - perhaps a common dependency?

showdownmetal · #277 Post by **showdownmetal** » Fri 06 Mar 2009, 22:10

i didnt read all of this, but is there gonna be something like rosegarden or nted or some sort of music composition/production program included?

IM BEGGING YOU!! PLEASE MAKE PUPPY MORE USEFULL FOR ME!!!!! AHHHHH

but seriously... i would love you guys forever.

hillside · #278 Post by **hillside** » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 04:16

Are you looking for something like Musescore? You can find a .pet for it here.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34321

raffy · #279 Post by **raffy** » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 04:32

Have you searched here for "music and puplet"?

A puplet is a tweaked Puppy for catering to special groups/interests.

zenfunk · #280 Post by **zenfunk** » Fri 20 Mar 2009, 23:30

Although I only have a coulpe of posts in this forum I'm a puppy user since the early 2.something series and a bigtime lurker here.
My two cents on the future of puppy.
First of all thanks to everybody who is involved in this for this fast and small distro. These are the two big upsides of puppy- fast and small.

Puppys speed and bootup times are fantastic, the system itself is responding better than anything, even on my PII 300 mHz 128 MB ram.

Nevertheless I don't see why it is so important to stick to such really small distro sizes, I really don't care if my distro is 450 MB or 80 MB. The smallest harddrives that still seem to be working to this day are in the 500 MB range- so you could get an even bigger puppy to work anyways. The difference for the usual end user are a couple of mp3 or half a movie less on your harddrive- no biggie. Ok, it might be due to the unique way puppy runs from ram (or from swap- if you are on a really low end machine), but nevertheless, if you are on such low ram machines, you would probably use a full hd install anyways.
Long story short, although smaller is preferable, I really don't see why you shouldn't have Icewm or Firefox in your base distro when many folks seem to install it afterwards anyways- the cost is about 15 to 20 MB- who really cares...

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Now the negatives. I'm sure they have been adressed elsewhere and I want to make clear that this is not a rant, it's just my point of view which I give so somebody can advance puppy.
The main reasons I don't run puppy on my main machine are the inconsistency between releases, packages not compatible between major releases, no real updates of packages, no automatic resolving of all the dependencies- do you get it?- you desperately need a good package manager.
One of the big advantages of the mayor distributions are the online repos. Why can't puppy have something like that? Its sooo convenient to just hit the add- remove button, select your desired program and click install. With dotpets and dotpups its like going back to windowsland and googling for setup.exes and whatnot.
Although I can see how the newer package manager in puppy tries to deal with the issue, and it has come a long way, I can't see the package manager as tightly integrated into the system like lets say apt-get. Automated kernel updates seem like out of the question right now.

The repos found in the package manager right now also seem very small. This I think is largely due to the inconsistent releases- you seem to have to repackage everything from release to release. Its like reinventing the wheel over and over again.

Just my two cents - and please don't get me wrong- his is not a rant but just my observations in about two years of puppy use.
Go puppy and all the best,

Christian

cthisbear · #281 Post by **cthisbear** » Sat 21 Mar 2009, 01:17

Isn't that why Barry Kauler is concentrating on Woof?

http://puppylinux.com/blog/

The CE will come soon.
Multi Puplets.
Plenty of choice for all.

Chris.

Lobster · #282 Post by **Lobster** » Sat 21 Mar 2009, 05:30

Thanks zenfunk,

Puppy is kept small so it can run on more hardware efficiently
and YES it is true Puppy can be bigger as code is loaded and accessed from Ram as needed on low ram machines.
The minimalist philosophy has served us well.

M m m . . . consistency, yes agreed. Maybe this will change as we become more a community distro. Many, many things have been trailed and tried. Poor end user!
Bigger and more packages will be supported with Woof and beyond.

I think you have expressed many of the areas that might be addressed.

01micko · #283 Post by **01micko** » Tue 24 Mar 2009, 08:06

Important!

Where has the wiki entry for Pwidgets gone? Sigmund and I have important links to that page. I only edited it a few days ago.

We need that page!

Thankyou

Mick

Lobster · #284 Post by **Lobster** » Tue 24 Mar 2009, 08:15

http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/applicat ... s/pwidgets

01micko · #285 Post by **01micko** » Tue 24 Mar 2009, 08:34

Lobster wrote:http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/applicat ... s/pwidgets

Thankyou Lobster!

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