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rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: Maine, USA

First, I corrected the replacement modeswitch package -- see my previous message. So the 4 of you who have downloaded the first attempt should re-download and install the new one before any further testing

Sylvander · Posted: Wed 25 Jan 2012, 06:06 Post subject: Re: Updates again

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

bigpup · Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 01:51 Post subject:

Playdayz,

Barry has posted about some bug fixes and update to Puppy core programs. Any chance some of this stuff will make it into a Lucid Puppy update?
http://bkhome.org/fossil/woof2.cgi/timeline

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

bigpup · Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 20:10 Post subject:

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2533 Location: Ontario

The program DVDisaster can be useful

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dvdisaster

It has several uses. The main use
is backup protection, however I expain how to
recover video files HERE

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Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 244

PlayDayz,

Do you plan to put the updates in a (the) new iso ? I would definitely like the Pburn update, but not immediately. I can wait for 528-005 iso.

Regards,

Volhout

P.S. I know 528 is in maintenance mode, but is there anyone working on cosmetics (themes/wallpapers/iconsets). Functionally 528 is great, but visually it could be "styled". i.e. Ubuntu may be great, but Mint has more "style". Is that something for 528-005 ? STU90 made a simlar remark some time ago. I use on all my puppies the i*P*A*D iconset from GCMartin, sinmply because they are consistent and stylish. I know there is MACPUP. But what can we do to 528 ????

More in the style of ... (I know it uses Conky, but it is more the style I want to empahsize ... and not only the FAENZA iconset).
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/9/21/2107819/conkyair.jp
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/7115/screen1mim.jpg
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/7456/screenshotzp.pn
http://puppy.b0x.me/gallery/pictures/fluxpup-feather_medium.jpg

Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 244

Just a snapshot ...
Still have to remove the word "Mac" from the wallpaper ....

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

Those looked nice indeed Smile

SciFi theme too.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4638 Location: GB

Volhout : It's really tiresome that some folks care so little about their fellow correspondents that they refuse to resize their images so that the less advantaged members of society can also read these columns. 800x600@60Hz would be a suitable maximum, unless there are still a lot of 14" crt s about, in which case 640x480.

Perhaps John can appoint another more effective moderator with the necessary skills in due course.

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Volhut, I would not be averse to a new-look desktop, but to be honest, I am not going to do the work Wink

In the meantime, instructions and links about how to achieve a new look would be appreciated by people I think--either in this thread or in the Eye Candy thread.

As Sage says in his plain-spoken way I have found it best to resize my desktop images to 599 pixels across--in fact, that is the only way I can get them to show up--I am not sure how you did it with larger images. Thanks.

Bigpup and Volhut, The new TESTING ISO is almost ready. It has Patch-7, usb-modeswitch 1.2.2, Pmusic 2.3.0, ffmpeg 0.8.9, ffconvert 1.2, sfs-load 1.3, PupControl 1.8.8, Sylpheed 3.1.2, mrpaint 3.40, PupApps 1.6.2, PupSnap 1.6.3, pprocess 2.2.4, Pburn 3.4.3, and all those drivers. By all those drivers it is meant that almost all of the extra drivers for Lucid that tempestuous has prepared--and it is quite a few, 41 actually! Because the drivers are placed in a "z-drive" the TESTING ISO can even boot in ram on a 256MB machine.

BTW, Pmusic 2.3.0 is already available as an upgrade for 5.2.8 in the first message of this thread. It is a largish pet because it also contains some dependencies (ffmpeg 0.8.9).

Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 244

Sorry to have caused so much trouble with these larger pictures.
I did not upload them, I merely placed links in this post from these pictures that where already posted earlier in the Eye Candy thread.

Sage, I know bandwidth problems (had a few myself) and cost associated with large size files. I will edit the previous thread, and replace the pictures with links.

Playdayz, I understand your position, in not volunteering for the work. Although it would (potentially) only involve a different set of themes, wallpapers, icons, and maybe a different default lineup of icons on the desktop.

Volhout

P.S. I noticed that when you manually move the drive icons, you can never get them back in the position they where originally. If the snap grid is different.

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 2980 Location: Sydney Australia

playdayz:

Any chance of updated Broadcom >> b43.

>> Dell Studio XPS in my post below....about the 9th.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=75209&start=240

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Maybe pemasu could help out as he did with Slacko.

b43-firmware-5.100.138.pet

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=51236

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Many thanks..............Chris.