Diamond - 9 May 2012
Posted: Wed 08 Feb 2012, 04:15
May 9th, 2012: New release of Diamond. This will probably be the last release built on the 528.004 base. The next release will most likely be built on 528.005 LucidPlus, which will take advantage of the 41 extra drivers. Also have been successful with Diamond beta builds of Slacko. But for now this new version is still based on Lucid Puppy 528.004.
Get it here:
http://revolutionvoice.com/Diamond528_512.iso
MD5: 9807609929DE0ACBA9CCCD31E4682A53
ISO size: 274 MB
May 13th, 2012
Full Version (With LibreOffice 3.5.3 and Java Runtime Environment 1.7u4)
http://revolutionvoice.com/Diamond528_512_full.iso
MD5: 079E37AF1472552AA08E37579DB1E781
ISO size: 465 MB
Whats New in this release:
Lxmenu category icons
Simple Scan---lightweight alternative to xsane. No PET available for this; i lifted the entire program manually from PCLinuxOS and transplanted it into Puppy, along with a hpliplite scan pet, and everything works!
Custom Diamond Openbox theme
Enhancements to tint2, including date tooltip on the clock, as well as mouse-click functions when clicking on the clock. Left click opens the Osmo calendar; right click opens the utility to set the time and date. Also some coloration added to the tint2 theme. Volume control has also been colorized.
The desktops are intuitively laid out and names as Left and Right. Taskbar uses icon view to show tasks, making this a very efficient multitasking system. From the following screenshot, you can see that there are 6 tasks open in the Left desktop, and another 5 tasks in the Right desktop (all tasks minimized for the screenshot)
The Openbox menu has also been improved:
Corrected spelling in Openbox Simple Theme Creator form "Boarders" to "Borders"
Removed Sylpheed and added Thunderbird. Changed defaultemail accordingly.
Firefox updated to version 12.
GetFlash upgraded to version 1.0
Capitalization of tiltles of all first tier subfolders under root (My Documents, Downloads, etc) Several programs such as Pupsnap and Pupctorrent were coded to produce lower-cased versions of these folders, so i have modified all of those programs as well to use the new upper=cased folders.
Moved startup sound to /etc/init.d For those not familiar with the startup sound, it is a female voice proclaiming: "initializing startup sequence" The sound used to load after the desktop was up, which was kind of out of sync since the initialization was already complete at the time the sound played. The startup sound will now play about the time the keyboard wizard appears when using the live cd, and will play before the desktop loads on a full HD install. Have not tried frugal.
New! Now there is also a shutdown sound: the counterpart to the above mentioned sound. For those not familiar with Diamond, it uses the ali-logout python script by forum member alexandrion. I have made a script similar to the startup sound script which now plays the following sound: "initializing shutdown sequence" I added and exec line of code to this script to invoke ali-logout, and then pointed all shutdown methods to point to this script. The entire thing is fluid and smooth.
Added Mixxx (thanks 666philb) you will need nvidia or ati drivers to run Mixxx.
Enjoy! Thanks always to B.K, alexandrion, pri, pemasu, playdayz, and all other forum members who have been of great assistance and influence.
Get it here:
http://revolutionvoice.com/Diamond528_512.iso
MD5: 9807609929DE0ACBA9CCCD31E4682A53
ISO size: 274 MB
May 13th, 2012
Full Version (With LibreOffice 3.5.3 and Java Runtime Environment 1.7u4)
http://revolutionvoice.com/Diamond528_512_full.iso
MD5: 079E37AF1472552AA08E37579DB1E781
ISO size: 465 MB
Whats New in this release:
Lxmenu category icons
Simple Scan---lightweight alternative to xsane. No PET available for this; i lifted the entire program manually from PCLinuxOS and transplanted it into Puppy, along with a hpliplite scan pet, and everything works!
Custom Diamond Openbox theme
Enhancements to tint2, including date tooltip on the clock, as well as mouse-click functions when clicking on the clock. Left click opens the Osmo calendar; right click opens the utility to set the time and date. Also some coloration added to the tint2 theme. Volume control has also been colorized.
The desktops are intuitively laid out and names as Left and Right. Taskbar uses icon view to show tasks, making this a very efficient multitasking system. From the following screenshot, you can see that there are 6 tasks open in the Left desktop, and another 5 tasks in the Right desktop (all tasks minimized for the screenshot)
The Openbox menu has also been improved:
Corrected spelling in Openbox Simple Theme Creator form "Boarders" to "Borders"
Removed Sylpheed and added Thunderbird. Changed defaultemail accordingly.
Firefox updated to version 12.
GetFlash upgraded to version 1.0
Capitalization of tiltles of all first tier subfolders under root (My Documents, Downloads, etc) Several programs such as Pupsnap and Pupctorrent were coded to produce lower-cased versions of these folders, so i have modified all of those programs as well to use the new upper=cased folders.
Moved startup sound to /etc/init.d For those not familiar with the startup sound, it is a female voice proclaiming: "initializing startup sequence" The sound used to load after the desktop was up, which was kind of out of sync since the initialization was already complete at the time the sound played. The startup sound will now play about the time the keyboard wizard appears when using the live cd, and will play before the desktop loads on a full HD install. Have not tried frugal.
New! Now there is also a shutdown sound: the counterpart to the above mentioned sound. For those not familiar with Diamond, it uses the ali-logout python script by forum member alexandrion. I have made a script similar to the startup sound script which now plays the following sound: "initializing shutdown sequence" I added and exec line of code to this script to invoke ali-logout, and then pointed all shutdown methods to point to this script. The entire thing is fluid and smooth.
Added Mixxx (thanks 666philb) you will need nvidia or ati drivers to run Mixxx.
Enjoy! Thanks always to B.K, alexandrion, pri, pemasu, playdayz, and all other forum members who have been of great assistance and influence.