Puppy Stardust 002

[zigbert]

Puppy Stardust 002

Stardust 003 is release here

This is still Puppy 4.3.1 - thanks to Barry for this wonder-OS

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Focus on desktop flow and user easiness.
- Desktop in DeepThougt taken to next stage.
- Cleanup in apps, menus and kilobytes.
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Comments version 002
Because of several requests, Geany has returned. I use it daily, so I don't cry too loud of these extra kilobytes. Background of geany is set to black by default. - I have used this for a while, and it is relaxing for my eyes. Rxvt has become black as well, and Abiword is just a little bit darker. All in all, I have tried to put together a iso that covers most tasks for the users around me. (Those I have forced using Puppy, and I must support ). This is the reason why I have included printoxx, which helps many with easy printing. It's size is 80kb compressed, so I felt it fitted well. The iso size is still 98Mb.

The stardust desktop has been improved by a couple of new features. All JWM tray management is placed into Ptray, and the top-tray can be placed in different positions on the screen. The 'Add widget' and 'Add icon' trays can also switch places. Another newbie is Pfont. You find this in the 'Font' tab in the control center. It makes installation of TTF fonts a bit easier for average users (like my mum, who has been my main tester ). There has also arrived a 'Drives' tab, which includes a refreshed CD/DVD wizard among other options.

I have fixed some bugs from version 001 (and a bug from Puppy 4.3.1). I have not found most of these bugs without your help. - Thanks for your reports.

Changelog since 001
- Geany is back
- added wooff (thanks to technosaurus)
- added printoxx (thanks to muggins)
- added getez (thanks to muggins)
- added acpid (thanks to patriot)
- added gtkmoz
- added floppy-formater (thanks to 8-bit)
- added Pfont
- removed: securetelnetshell, didiwiki, pplog, quisp, nicoedit, PuppyBrowser, gtksourceview, floppy-format.sh
- updated notecase without gtksourceview (thanks to ttuuxxx)
- updated Pseries
- pcc improvements
- flexible placement of ptray
- setup-menu is removed, and petget is moved to system-menu
- CD/DVD wizard is cleaned up
- Darker background color in: rxvt, geany, abiword
- Bugfix: sfs-converter didn't work
- Bugfix: remove 'add icon' and 'add widget' trays
- Bugfix: Psync was removed, and is back.
- Bugfix: Pfind pointed to aqualung instead of pmusic.
- Bugfix: kill pid of wallpaper setter when closing window.
- Bugfix: loading of xload at first boot.
- Bugfix: message at startup if no wireless card is installed.







BE AWARE!!!!
If you have Puppy installed, you MUST run this with the prefix 'puppy pfix=ram'. Else, the Stardust desktop will not install.

Download
username: puppy
password: linux
pup_stardust-002.iso (98Mb)
md5sum: 382abfe9d3b34e26183077f5ba1796fc

Here is the good old Stardust icon-theme (thanks to 01micko)


The following list shows many items that is taken out of the iso. But, it is not as critical as it seems. Most of these are tiny apps, and you have not been aware of many of them. Simply because other apps do the job.

Aqualung has left, and Pmusic is back. Pmusic has evolved in both features and speed, so It is more a matter of longterm strategy. I hope it will be possible to build more around ffmpeg in the future. We could hopefully get rid of lidsnd, libsamplerate and maybe libxine...

Gadmin-Rsync is out as well, since it crashed on first run. I don't think Pbackup fill the backup issue completely. It would be wonderful if there exists a tiny but complete backup suit.

If you see something that you would have changed, added or removed, I will be very glad if you mentioned it. Because of my limited time, it would be best if you deliver the patch.... My knowledge of network/internet tools is close to zero, so these are nearly untouched.

It is easy to see possible improvements
- service manager
- icon theme in vector graphics for space saving.
- jwmconfig doesn't manage swallowed apps.
- alternative multimedia tools using ffmpeg.
- hunt more files we don't need.
- upgrade gui in some of the scripts.
- extend the control center.
- replacement of Gparted (901kb)
- ...

This is meant to be a full featured user-oriented Puppy....Though, I have to admit that the biggest modem drivers is removed.




So what's added
- Stardust desktop environment - including pcc (Puppy control center) and Pwidgets
- Pwireless2 (replaces Pwireless)
- ATI drivers
- Pmusic (replaces aqualung)
- woo-ff
- printoxx
- floppy-formater (replaces floppy-format.sh)
- getez (replaces PmirrorGet)
- acpid
- gtkmoz (replaces PuppyBrowser)



And what does the Stardust-generator change
- Install desktop at first startup rather than keep it in the iso to save space
- snap desktop icons - medium grid
- simple Pmount facelift
- Xlock is fixed
- start pCD instead of defaultmediaplayer when click on audio-CD icon
- seamonkey buttons
- defaultaudioplayer is changed from aqualung to pmusic
- Updated P-series
- start timidity (if exist) daemon when alsa starts
- Net-setup goes to Pwireless2 for wireless configuration
- CD/DVD wizard is cleaned up
- Darker background color in: rxvt, geany, abiword


And of course, something had to leave
*** Programs ***
- aqualung
- libmad
- madplay
- burniso2cd
- cdp
- cgtkcalc
- didiwiki
- e3
- floppy-format.sh
- gcolor2 (color chooser)
- gdmap
- gexec
- gfnrename - maybe better than PRename, but this is bash and easy updated.
- gtkdialog markup editor - devx ???
- gtklogfileviewer - Does any script use anymore ???
- gtksourceview
- Isomaster - developer app, and Pburn does the basics
- Net-setup (old version)
- nicoedit
- pcdripper
- Pdisk - could maybe be in use by some wizard
- picpuz
- pictureviewer
- pmirror/mirdir
- pmwget (PMirrorget)
- pplog
- ptooltips - tool to show tooltips in gtkdialog - not longer in use
- PuppyBrowser
- PuppyPdf - Abiword does exactly the same
- Pwireless
- quisp
- rsync / gadmin-rsync - crashes on first run
- securetelnetshell
- tile
- waveplay - linked to aplay
- xAutoconnect - Pwireless2 should do the job
- xcalc
- xclipboard
- Xconsole
- xfontsel
- ycalc
- zfind

*** Trimming ***
- cdrkit - Pburn has very few dependencies
- libsnd (only mhwaveedit (aqualung) use libsnd)

*** Control panel has ditched some ***
- countrywizard
- XserverWizard
- wizardwizard
- And plenty of menu items

*** Graphics ***
- All wallpapers
- some Gtk-themes
- All Icon-themes
- many mini-icons

*** misc ***
- some apps NOT in control center has also lost their place in the menu
--> sfs-version-converter - warnings pointing to it is changed.
--> Pstopwatch - Ptimer should be enough.
- some documentation files
- some audio files
- the biggest modem drivers
- many fixed fonts

Puppy 4.3.1 Bugfixes
- Kill pid of wallpaper setter when closing window.
- Xlock - Lock screen.
- Shutdown / Reboot from menu.

[mawebb88]

Hi zigbert

I have 001 working nicely (frugal) on my eeePC901 with my own added selection of pets. Can I just replace the the pup-431.sfs file with your new one?

BTW I like very much what you have provided. The connection to WPA/WiFi was the easiest yet and it sticks between boots unlike in some Puppies.

Thanks

Mike

[pemasu]

Stardust 002 is magnificent. It hits like million volts. Pwireless 2 works fine. Control center is really sophisticated. I have added needed pets and I am also using sfs linker succesfully.
No errors so far.

Merry Christmas

[prehistoric]

It works very well here, on two machines.

prehistoric

[zigbert]

Glad to hear it works for you guys. Most often I get reports of errors and bugs, so this makes me happy.....well I'm sure the bug-reports will arrive soon enough. If you have suggestions to improvements, I will open my ears......

mawebb88
It should be safe to just replace pup-431.sfs. I would personally change name of the original to keep it as a backup. The improved wireless setup is jemimahs work. Credit goes to him.


Sigmund

[jemimah]

I appreciate the feedback and compliments for Pwireless2. I am currently working on a couple new features, mainly support for static IP addresses and a few minor enhancements. Let me know if you have any good ideas for improvements or if it doesn't work with your hardware.

Zigbert, just fyi, I am female. I'm still waiting for the English language to get a gender-neutral pronoun for awkward situations such as this.

[rjbrewer]

Zigbert, just fyi, I am female. I'm still waiting for the English language to get a gender-neutral pronoun for awkward situations such as this.

The username and pink goggles should be a dead giveaway.

[myman_05]

Hello.

Love your pupplet.

I have 1 question how to use sfsconvert command? It not listed in rxvt. See pic below

Thanks.

[zigbert]

Sorry jemimah

[zigbert]

myman_05
sfsconvert has slipped out of the $PATH. You'll find it in /usr/local/sfsconvert/
I will fix it for next release.
Thanks for reporting!!!!!!

[tasmod]

Hi Zigbert,

Can't get two things to work in Control Center.

Psync is not run by the 'sync time' button.

Can't set number of virtual desktops, old problem, complains config corrupt and reverts to old settings. (Can't remember solution)

[mawebb88]

@Sigmund
It should be safe to just replace pup-431.sfs. I would personally change name of the original to keep it as a backup. The improved wireless setup is jemimahs work. Credit goes to him.

Unfortunately this did not work. Mostly okay but ptray (I see you made some changes) is not working this way. The top tray is missing when I used my 001 save file. Using the ptray config GUI from the control panel did not help me. BTW I checked this was the problem by testing with an empty save file and then the top tray is there.

I see you plan a 003 so I will wait for this now as I have quite a few pets to install and configure each time.

BTW I would like the "Show Desk Top" icon on the bottom left which is in the normal 431 if its possible?

Rgds Mike

[zigbert]

Tasmod
Thanks for reporting, I will check.
When you say that the virtual desktop bug is old, do you mean it also exists in Puppy 4.3.1, or only in Stardust 001?


Sigmund

[zigbert]

BTW I would like the "Show Desk Top" icon on the bottom left which is in the normal 431 if its possible?

Hopefully we will see an improved jwmconfig2 with your request included.


Sigmund

[pemasu]

I second that Psync does not work.
I made workaround by installing ntpdate and made small script to Startup to update the hwclock every bootup.

Isomaster is something I miss. I have used it to master my own Remastered Puppy after initial installing.
Does somebody know where I could download working or latest stable version for Puppy 4.3.1. Thread I found was not convincing enough.

Next Happy New Year

[tasmod]

Ziggy,

Old, as in 421 error. I will see if I can find it.

Haven't looked around yet, where is 'Control Center' code ? Psync works from usr/local/psync/psync

Hmm, forum spell check didn't like English version, "centre"

EDIT: OK found it as pcc.
Haven't looked deeper than adding full path as above on line 544 to make it work.
Maybe a $dirs problem somewhere in code ?

[pemasu]

I found isomaster-1.3.5.pet and it works. Adventures at Puppy world continues....

Download link if somebody needs also: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=13823

[`f00]

@tasmod & z'
.. if I recall properly a patch was done by MHHP 'way back in 42 testing - that little glitch may only be an initial thing (seems like jwmconfig reacts to manual editing of some jwm files perhaps).

Any chance of xdelta-files for updates since this is a moving project? Sry, but I got sidetracked with synth's derivative (why I use cdrw discs ).

[James C]

I just did a full install of Stardust 002 on one of my trusty P3's.
Other than things already mentioned, I have found no real problems yet.

I really like the Puppy Control Center, it consolidates everything and cleans up the actual menu. Really neat.
I like the new themes too.
If I discover any new problems, I'll report back........

[zigbert]

Maybe a $dirs problem somewhere in code ?

We could change the pcc code to look for usr/local/psync/psync. But I think we should fix the executable to be inside $PATH. Else it won't be executable from terminal.

Isomaster is something I miss. I have used it to master my own Remastered Puppy after initial installing.
Does somebody know where I could download working or latest stable version for Puppy 4.3.1. Thread I found was not convincing enough.

Why not install it from petget?

Any chance of xdelta-files for updates since this is a moving project?

I haven't dealt with xdelta, but I see your point........

If I discover any new problems, I'll report back........

THAT is the most important part.


Sigmund