PCP - Puppy Control Panel(s)

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technosaurus · #16 Post by **technosaurus** » Mon 09 Mar 2009, 15:20

I initially wanted to put the help as a mouse-over, but couldn't find anything in puppy that could do it... thus the "?" help... if someone knows how to get mouse-over to work I would do it that way... anyone???

esmourguit · #17 Post by **esmourguit** » Tue 10 Mar 2009, 07:16

Bonjour,
Sorry, I do not know how. In any case thank you for this program.
Cordialement

WhoDo · #18 Post by **WhoDo** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 23:53

technosaurus wrote:I initially wanted to put the help as a mouse-over, but couldn't find anything in puppy that could do it... thus the "?" help... if someone knows how to get mouse-over to work I would do it that way... anyone???

David McClamrock (pa_mcclamrock) has almost finished Remaster Express (RemaX) and I've suggested to him that you might appreciate some assistance with this part of your project.

I also have some suggestions about content, if you have no objections. My suggestions are:

Add Firewall Configuration
Drop the Browser about:plugins page
Add Chooselocale
Add Set Timezone
Add set clock
Remove Gwhere (too obscure for newbies)
Remove Gparted (not a newbie option)
Change SAMBA to Windows LAN or similar
Change Netsetup to NetConnect
Plugging seems "obscure"

These are just suggestions, not requests, so please feel free to ignore them if they don't suit what you're trying to achieve.

Cheers

technosaurus · #19 Post by **technosaurus** » Fri 13 Mar 2009, 18:27

WhoDo wrote: My suggestions are:
Add Firewall Configuration - part of net setup

Drop the Browser about:plugins page - planned to already

Add Chooselocale - part of Country

Add Set Timezone - part of Country

Add set clock - part of Country

Remove Gwhere (too obscure for newbies) - planned to already

Remove Gparted (not a newbie option) - still think it should be there

Change SAMBA to Windows LAN or similar - changing to WinLAN

Change Netsetup to NetConnect - Changing to Net (has more than just connection or setup options)

Plugging seems "obscure" - thought it was more intuitive than eventmanager - other suggestions???

I'll take a look at David's code to see what I can see for mouse over

WhoDo · #20 Post by **WhoDo** » Fri 13 Mar 2009, 22:04

technosaurus wrote:
WhoDo wrote:
Plugging seems "obscure" - thought it was more intuitive than eventmanager - other suggestions???
I'll take a look at David's code to see what I can see for mouse over

How about "Hotplug"? I dunno, even that seems pretty obscure to me, but it seems a tad less so than "plugging".

Whether or not you guys manage to resolve the mouseover help, I'd like to see the main screen simplified somewhat. Perhaps a single help page behind its own icon with descriptions of each PCP icon or something? IMHO something like this should be more welcoming to those who need it.

Keep up the good work, technosaurus! I know you'll worry it until it's done, just like a dog with a bone!

Aitch · #21 Post by **Aitch** » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 00:39

techno

My support for keeping Gparted

WhoDo you'd be amazed at how many noob posts are about partition problems!
In general, sterling effort, techno - 5*

Aitch

Lobster · #22 Post by **Lobster** » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 03:51

Gparted (not a newbie option) - still think it should be there

Time to accelerate the Noob development program. Give them the power.
I would leave it in

technosaurus · #23 Post by **technosaurus** » Sun 15 Mar 2009, 20:27

without the help it is <1kb compressed, looks a lot better and most programs that need help already have it... here it is with a couple of substitutions (ptray and pwidgets are better set from the tray - otherwise multiple processes start and don't quit on exit... bad)

melvix · #24 Post by **melvix** » Mon 23 Mar 2009, 08:55

Good idea.
Now in Russian (only starting)

technosaurus · #25 Post by **technosaurus** » Thu 26 Mar 2009, 03:38

I figured out how to add tabs from here:

http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/lan ... 01s41.html

gposil · #26 Post by **gposil** » Mon 06 Apr 2009, 10:19

Is this type of Control Panel worth pursuing...it was just a quick fiddle in Lazarus

Updated here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 418#293418

magerlab · #27 Post by **magerlab** » Mon 06 Apr 2009, 10:30

i think that a tabbed interface would have a better look

gposil · #28 Post by **gposil** » Mon 06 Apr 2009, 14:55

Is this more like it....

technosaurus · #29 Post by **technosaurus** » Mon 06 Apr 2009, 18:08

@gposil - looks great, can you upload it?... looks like a lot of non-stock icons, which is fine they pretty good, I only tried to use stock puppy icons to keep the size smaller which made it kind of difficult to get a uniform appearance

Lobster · #30 Post by **Lobster** » Mon 06 Apr 2009, 19:34

gposil
please upload code

Hope we find this in 4.2.1
and . . .
for 4.3 we will be instigating a massive drive to use GIT
Please start reading up on Git

http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/wiki-tag ... opment/git

gposil · #31 Post by **gposil** » Tue 07 Apr 2009, 02:12

Which interface does everyone prefer...the icons only or the tabbed? Let me know which and I'll quickly knock up the rest of the code and upload the Lazarus/Fpc source...

cthisbear · #32 Post by **cthisbear** » Tue 07 Apr 2009, 05:56

gposil :

Tabbed loks great mate.

Upload ASAP............please.

Chris.

gposil · #33 Post by **gposil** » Tue 07 Apr 2009, 08:43

I'm coding now...hope this screen shot looks better with gtk2 now being used.

Updated here:http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 418#293418

esmourguit · #34 Post by **esmourguit** » Tue 07 Apr 2009, 14:58

Bonjour,
I like very much the look of that window. Do you think you could do the same on the Pshutdown 0.1 version of Zigbert? Here is a translated version in french.
Cordialement

trapster · #35 Post by **trapster** » Tue 07 Apr 2009, 16:20

Tabbed

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