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trio · Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 06:49 Post subject:

@Big Bass

Go ahead, edit, modify, anything ........ If this humble little idea can be some of use for you ..... I am not intending this to be a long term project

Cheers

edoc · Posted: Thu 07 Apr 2011, 12:37 Post subject:

Is it safe to try this in Fluppy 013?

trio · Posted: Thu 07 Apr 2011, 18:50 Post subject:

It's safe as long as you don't try to install this while drunk driving ... Hehehe

edoc · Posted: Thu 07 Apr 2011, 19:04 Post subject:

OK, I just thought I'd ask because over the years many new apps that are not matched to the distro have changed versions of dependencies, broken links, or trashed CUPS (the latter is not hard to do).

I have learned the hard way to ask first! javascript:emoticon(' Rolling Eyes

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Thanks!

bigpup · Posted: Sun 24 Apr 2011, 11:56 Post subject:

trio,

Could you add a file search function to step 4 like you have in step 3?

big_bass · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 1736

tasmod · Posted: Mon 25 Apr 2011, 04:31 Post subject:

Great for a menu entry.

However what I would like to see is a Category maker and menu entry maker to populate it. Laughing

big_bass · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 1736

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

Menu Entry Maker 1.1 is a great little GUI but I have noticed a couple of traps.

1. You must delete the hint text before populating the field.
2. When choosing an icon it really should be 16x16 pixels only
3. If you delete the .desktop file other than with MEM it doesn't delete it from the menu. Running fixmenus, restart JWM or Restart X Server didn't fix it either. Reboot did. I guess the info is live in memory.

It would be nice to be able to edit an existing entry. I guess it is possible to delete and create a new entry instead.

Thanks

Geoffrey · Posted: Tue 26 Apr 2011, 03:02 Post subject:

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

Geoffrey I made some mods here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=517170#517170

big_bass · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 1736

Geoffrey · Posted: Tue 26 Apr 2011, 21:26 Post subject:

Geoffrey · Posted: Sat 30 Apr 2011, 04:17 Post subject:

I've updated this script yet again, I hope nobody minds me doing this, but I could see where it could be improved a little more.

It now creates a tmp dir where it re-formats the file name, so now it does not matter if there are spaces in the name,
they will automatically be replaced with a minus sign "-".

Changed this part of the script from this

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

Geoffrey I like the way you have implemented the help.

I don't get the same icon here as your screenshot. Mine still shows the brief case.

I rather like the idea of not having to type paths and filenames that why I made mine drag and drop. Less mistakes that way.

If you package it as a .pet file more will appreciate it.

good job.