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[oligin10]

Hi Scott, when using shutdown dialog from menu, exit to prompt does not work. Just automatically restarts x. I think this was in the Beta 1 version also. I just forgot to mention it. Thanks, Rob

[sc0ttman]

[rodin.s]

I have made two i18n-pets (gettext): delayed_flash with delayedrun and flash-get and resizepfile.
In resizepfile file /bin/gettext.sh is used for eval_gettext to work. Shinobar used to replace it with the code:

[don570]

Review of beta2

1) I had the same behaviour with the 'exit to prompt' as oligin10

2) When zathura_gui opens up it might be nice
if it opened directly to the PDF folder in the my-documents folder
and in that folder there was a small FAQ file in pdf format.
(Note that Abiword does a good job in making small pdf files
of a couple of kilobytes)

3) I installed FBReader and it worked.

4) Both Bacon Recorder and ptm timer have foreign local files
installed. They're just small text files so it hardly matters.

5) When I clicked on paint and draw Rox desktop icons
rgbpaint launched. Not sure what you see in that program.

6) You made changes to screenshot browser that
I don't think are necessary. I deliberately put three
incredibly small images in the Screenshots folder so
when the browser is first opened up there will be an
interesting list for the user to see. This will help
the user to understand how mtpaint does a list.
If mtpaint doesn't find any images in the folder
it will give a warning message, at least in the puppies I've
used. The idea behind Screenshot browser was to encourage the
user to put as many images in this folder for further editing

7 At startup I choose to show the icons on the Rox desktop (1440x900)
and the right-hand side icons didn't find the right corner properly
(see screenshot)

[don570]

I also noticed a strange bug in Xbindkeys.

When I changed the resolution of the screen using XORG
config file then xbindkeys config app had to be started again
to make the keystroke combinations work again.

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[sc0ttman]

Jut a quick note, I uploaded a messed up Opera 11 .pet - which is installed by the browser installer, so don't install that one, I broke Flash .. again..

**EDIT: Should be fixed, with plus all icons working in menu entries **

I'll get back to you guys about the other stuff later... Cheers..

[don570]

Also forgot to mention that in Beta 1and 2
the time is not set correctly on my machine which is Linux only.

Using other Puppies I choose UTC and then do a software adjustment.

I noticed that if I use Radky's control panel to change
hardware clock I get a vague warning message that it
is not installed --> perhaps this refers to
/usr/sbin/set_hwclock_type which I noticed that this file
isn't installed.
Here's a reference...
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01616

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[sc0ttman]

[technosaurus]

Iirc, you can change resolutions without restarting X, by using xrandr... provided your xserver supports it.

[sc0ttman]

Changes made so far, after Beta2 was uploaded

(these updates are NOT included in Beta2, but they ARE included in Beta 3):

[sc0ttman]

The repo that Akita uses as its default has moved!
This will need investigation!! It is now at:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5OLD/


It seems the Wary repo has moved... I am now installed the xorg_server from which ever repo Akita finds - I think it will now be the new one - in which the xorg_server does not xcb, and will break Akita... Lets see.... I maybe wrong, wary5OLD may just be a symlink for future use? Have to read Barrys blog!

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EDIT: Yes, the PPM in Akita is now broken when using the Wary5 repo!!

I will have to update the URL which Akita uses to find the .pets in the PPM in the next ISO (beta3)..

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Also, should I bother installing 'pupdialog', by Barry? I don't think I need to as I already have the dialog_functions thing by going nuts installed in Akita... Pupdialog is here: http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02488

[sc0ttman]

OK, I have updated /usr/sbin/petget, so that the PPM works fine again..

So the next Akita ISO will use the Wary5OLD repo... Not the latest wary5.2..
But it is still the same repo as Wary51x (5.1.x)

But I wonder if I need to update /root/.packages/livepackages5.txt
The wary 5 repo is sure to have a few extra packages in it since I created livepackages5.txt from its contents...

[don570]

I noticed that precord and Bacon Recorder
are listed under 'Editors' which I find confusing.

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I upgraded Quick Launch to 1.4
It should be finished now. I just received a Spanish
translation from the forum.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=71538

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[rodin.s]

pup_event_frontend_d doesn't display an icon for each partition. I have ICONDESK=true and ICONPARTITIONS=true in /etc/eventmanager but no desktop icons.

[sc0ttman]