pa_mcclamrock wrote:As to the things that don't work, can you go back to the corresponding things that did work in Puppy 4.1x for the second alpha, and save the remaining innovations at least for the third alpha?
I think I can satisfy both requests.Hairywill wrote:alphas are meant to be broken
I'm bored
release early release often
1. I have resolved several of the issues that plagued me when I wrote the last post - a good night's sleep helped.
2. I plan to upload Alpha2 fairly soon because it needs you guys to tackle a couple of issues right at the root of the problem.
Things that are now working again include the Pwidgets manager, all non-behaving applications now appear to behave, new features are doing what they should.
Things that are NOT working and need attention are:
1. Bareview is segfaulting so we don't get the introductory web page after you click the yaf-splash notification.
2. Switching JWM themes still blanks the taskbar
3. Desktop icon themes are all over the place - there are 4 basic themes and each one has some idiosyncratic naming of icons. These need to be standardised across themes as well as within themes
4. I still haven't tested CUPS successfully and I have no comprehensive reports about the later version supplied by ttuuxxx with respect to adding printers, managing queues, deleting jobs, etc. Does it all work as expected, at least for local printers?
And of course there are still the outstanding issues on the ToDo List for Deepthought at the wiki. The Alpha2 will have Firepup/Sylpheed which is the prime cause of breaking the 100Mb limit. If IceCat (why would we have a cat in puppy?) doesn't work out I'll move back to Seamonkey for the beta, even if we have to stick with the old version.
@ttuuxxx I know you're working hard on browsers for Deepthought. Please don't be offended if the final choice is to go back to the old stalwart Seamonkey. Firepup will be in the PETget repository no matter what, for those who prefer that and don't mind the extra weight.
I'll upload the Alpha2 in 16 hours unless there is a major problem. It's too late to do it tonight and I have to go to work in the morning.
@Hairywill - Alpha2 will cure your boredom. I've tried to apply your fix for the JWM theme switcher but it still creams the .jwmrc-tray file and I can't see any logical reason why - I may have patched the file incorrectly?
@trio/01micko - the new func for Pwidgets kills the Pwidgets manager. You can't add or remove anything and none of the buttons respond to mouse events. I had to revert to the old func to get the manager going again.
Also Pweather's new font looks great except that the night versions have a box that encrouches on the text description of the conditions below it. I can't see how to increase the line separation so I guess the night characters will need to be modified somehow.
Start counting guys. 16 hours till the Alpha2 is available for download.