Fatdog64-600 alpha2

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mories · #151 Post by **mories** » Sun 27 May 2012, 11:59

Please, as set locale other than english?
The Fatdog64 Locale Selector only offers English.
Thanks in advance.

kirk · #152 Post by **kirk** » Sun 27 May 2012, 12:33

01micko wrote:
Ok.. there is a "bug" with your nifty samba share rox app.. and it only occurs when mounting a Mac share [ ]. ( I might "steal" this one )

My wife has a macbook and the sharename is "Kriista's Public Folder" .. yeah trust mac devs to whack in spaces and an apostrophe for good measure!

Any way, I patched the rox app for my purposes and it seems to work fine. I'll offer the patch FWIW, so anyone who knows what they're doing can patch and use with a mac. It doesn't break windows share mount with my limited testing, but, I could have introduced something.. as there appear a lot of "mounts" for my son's windows 7 machine which aren't really shares.

Also, I made a cool overlay that I use as a "mount" icon. Attached.

Glad you like the Samba browser, I thought it turned out pretty well too. Thanks for the patch, didn't think about the name having a apostrophe. Feel free to use it, that's why it's public domain

. Yes, with Windows smbclient returns a list of shares that sometimes contain shares that don't share anything. I guess we could add a loop that tries to mount each share, and if the mount fails, don't make a rox app for it.

A couple things to note if you're going to use it in another distro. If the user does not umount their shares the shutdown may hang and the mounted/unmounted icons will be left in the wrong state. The icon state problem is just cosmetic though and will fix it self after a cycle. You'll want to have something in your shutdown script or init.d that takes care of umounting and the icons. We put it in rc.shutdown. Also, mpsan is hacked to timeout faster, there are some command line switches you can use if you want to make the un-hacked version of mpscan do about the same thing. The patched source is on ibiblio if you need it.
What does the new mount icon do or look like?

Please, as set locale other than english?

Sorry mories, it's english only.

01micko · #153 Post by **01micko** » Sun 27 May 2012, 13:03

Thanks for the info kirk.

The original idea for the overlay is in this post where I made my mount a desktop icon. I scripted the overlay to cover all icon themes installed at the time with pngoverlay (iirc), a script of Barry's using the netpbm suite. There's a screenshot at the link. It may or may not be useful to you.

Maybe you could set an icon for the share folder on the desktop, but I guess you may already have ideas of that?

Cheers

kirk · #154 Post by **kirk** » Sun 27 May 2012, 13:23

Maybe you could set an icon for the share folder on the desktop, but I guess you may already have ideas of that?

I thought users could just drag the created rox apps to the desktop if they wanted.

I added a few lines to test mount each share to see if it's real. This weeds out the bogus shares from my daughter's Vista laptop. I've attached a pet with that along with your fixes.

If you've been using the Samba Browser on the desktop, please test this pet. Thanks

01micko · #155 Post by **01micko** » Sun 27 May 2012, 20:32

Thanks kirk,

Samba sharing working well

On my son's win7 lappy I get a more sane list of shares now, "dad" (my account), Public and Users. I can only login to my account because that is the only one I have a password for which is the expected behaviour.

I thought users could just drag the created rox apps to the desktop if they wanted.

great idea, and if you overlay the stock drive icons you have, then the user has a distinction

(you could probably get real fancy, but I guess sanity has to prevail!)

jamesbond · #156 Post by **jamesbond** » Mon 28 May 2012, 01:03

01micko wrote:great idea, and if you overlay the stock drive icons you have, then the user has a distinction (you could probably get real fancy, but I guess sanity has to prevail!)

I think this this http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 431#619136 is a better idea. It does use SVG so it is probably a tad slower; but I don't notice it

I'll what I can do with this.
PS: The drive icons are using these. No multiple versions of the same icons are involved.

cheers!

01micko · #157 Post by **01micko** » Mon 28 May 2012, 01:55

jamesbond wrote:
01micko wrote:great idea, and if you overlay the stock drive icons you have, then the user has a distinction (you could probably get real fancy, but I guess sanity has to prevail!)
I think this this http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 431#619136 is a better idea. It does use SVG so it is probably a tad slower; but I don't notice it I'll what I can do with this.
PS: The drive icons are using these. No multiple versions of the same icons are involved.

cheers!

Svg ... even better

jamesbond · #158 Post by **jamesbond** » Mon 28 May 2012, 02:46

01micko wrote:Svg ... even better

You can overlay as many images as you want. I took your "SMB" icon, change the color to red, make it bolder a bit, and thanks to technosaurus' SVG icon technique, now samba shares features the "SMB" word there

jamesbond · #159 Post by **jamesbond** » Mon 28 May 2012, 11:55

kirk wrote:JWM is still in there, but we don't really support it. Mainly because nether one of us use it. It probably should be removed, unless James wants to do something with it. I haven't tried JWM for a while, maybe it's better now?
Anyway, please use Openbox. Sorry for the confusion.

We'll probably keep JWM as an alternative but as kirk said - it's basically an unloved child, not fully tested etc. Both myself and kirk definitely don't use it. Do report any problems with it (even better with the fixes), we'll look at them and fix the easy ones. The difficult ones will probably stay there for a (long) while

Note: JWM configuration is not working. As far as I know, this is basically an unmaintained piece of software. The author ("thoughtjourney") last post in the forum is from 2006. It's a nice piece of software, well-written too but JWM probably has changed since then. Unless I have a better option we will probably have to drop it.

Jim1911 · #160 Post by **Jim1911** » Mon 28 May 2012, 12:57

jamesbond wrote:Note: JWM configuration is not working. As far as I know, this is basically an unmaintained piece of software. The author ("thoughtjourney") last post in the forum is from 2006. It's a nice piece of software, well-written too but JWM probably has changed since then. Unless I have a better option we will probably have to drop it.

It works well in Slacko and I believe that 01micko refined it with code that launches an improved JWM Panel Button application, I'm sure Mick will share his code improvements.

01micko · #161 Post by **01micko** » Tue 29 May 2012, 03:59

Hi Jim

gtkdialog is at version 0.7.20 in FatDog so the newer mods I have made to jwm-config won't work. It's up to kirk and jamesbond whether they update gtkdialog, so for now I'll leave it alone.

-

kirk and jamesbond

Jemimah developed a 2 patches for glib .. adds support for help with apps like geany, abiword and gnumeric and also adds the currently mounted drives to any gtk filebrowser widget. Just FYI, patch HERE

Cheers

jamesbond · #162 Post by **jamesbond** » Tue 29 May 2012, 04:56

01micko wrote:Hi Jim

gtkdialog is at version 0.7.20 in FatDog so the newer mods I have made to jwm-config won't work. It's up to kirk and jamesbond whether they update gtkdialog, so for now I'll leave it alone.

Mick, thanks for the info. 600a2 actually (or finally! depending on how you see it) has gtkdialog4 there (0.8.0), but it is not the default. Default is still gtkdialog3 as many scripts in Fatdog have not been updated for gtkdialog4. Before I dig in and look around, just one question: is it non-root clean? (ie doesn't try to write to /root (use $HOME instead), and don't assume it can overwrite stuff in /etc /var etc (only in $HOME or /tmp)?

Jemimah developed a 2 patches for glib .. adds support for help with apps like geany, abiword and gnumeric and also adds the currently mounted drives to any gtk filebrowser widget. Just FYI, patch HERE

Thanks, I have been wondering where to find these patches. I have plans to do the first one when GTK is re-compiled; I wouldn't be able to find the 2nd one myself ... but I'll leave it to kirk whether he wants to rebuild GTK

cheers!

Billtoo · #163 Post by **Billtoo** » Tue 29 May 2012, 05:39

Openbox + Icewm - Can't get one or the other but this is okay too

Edit: Make that Icewm + Lxpanel - too much fun today!

01micko · #164 Post by **01micko** » Tue 29 May 2012, 11:19

jamesbond wrote:Mick, thanks for the info. 600a2 actually (or finally! depending on how you see it) has gtkdialog4 there (0.8.0), but it is not the default. Default is still gtkdialog3 as many scripts in Fatdog have not been updated for gtkdialog4. Before I dig in and look around, just one question: is it non-root clean? (ie doesn't try to write to /root (use $HOME instead), and don't assume it can overwrite stuff in /etc /var etc (only in $HOME or /tmp)?

Oh dear! (my lack of finding gtkdialog-0.8.0

)
Oh well!

Here (attached) is an updated jwm-config for FatDog. This is for testing, contains no binaries, no hard coding to /root, only hard coding is the original stuff (thought-journey and plinej) where puppy believed it wanted to be root forever! (Nice notion but some are deterred.)

The pet adds a couple of extra themes and changes the menu button a little.

Cheers!

Jim1911 · #165 Post by **Jim1911** » Tue 29 May 2012, 15:21

Hi kirk and jamesbond,

Thanks for keeping the JWM desktop.

Mick's jwmconfig2-120529-fatdog.pet works good. Thanks Mick. It will be a fine addition. I used it to add a couple of radky's fine little applications to the panel. PupControl and PupShutdown.

Cheers,
Jim

Jim1911 · #166 Post by **Jim1911** » Tue 29 May 2012, 17:24

I downloaded install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64,tar,gz but can't get flash to work. I placed libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib64, is that correct? I believe that everything that goes in the /usr/ directory is correct.

Thanks,
Jim

Billtoo · #167 Post by **Billtoo** » Tue 29 May 2012, 17:54

Jim1911 wrote:I downloaded install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64,tar,gz but can't get flash to work. I placed libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib64, is that correct? I believe that everything that goes in the /usr/ directory is correct.

Thanks,
Jim

Mine is in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Edit: It's also in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

Jim1911 · #168 Post by **Jim1911** » Tue 29 May 2012, 20:57

Billtoo wrote: Mine is in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Edit: It's also in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

Thanks!

jamesbond · #169 Post by **jamesbond** » Tue 29 May 2012, 23:00

Jim1911 wrote:Hi kirk and jamesbond,

Thanks for keeping the JWM desktop.

Mick's jwmconfig2-120529-fatdog.pet works good. Thanks Mick. It will be a fine addition. I used it to add a couple of radky's fine little applications to the panel. PupControl and PupShutdown.

Cheers,
Jim

Mick and Jim,

Thank you for the pet and for testing it. I will put this pet into main sfs - experimental beats non-working versions

cheers!

Billtoo · #170 Post by **Billtoo** » Wed 30 May 2012, 04:00

Here's Audacious 3.2.3, a music player with plugins such as extra
stero etc.

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