Hello, everyone.
Ok, here's a report on my 1st try of dpup-beta5. This is the 1st time I'm doing this systematically, reflexively, with note-taking. So I don't how much of what I'm reporting are lacks / oversights in dpup, and how much of it are lacks / oversights upstream... NB This test is very incomplete.
WARNING [mimicking what is said on Canadian TV for some programs]: This post may provoke depression in viewers so inclined. Viewer discretion is advised.
In any case, here goes. Some good, some bad, some annoying.
Positive:
* screensaver (nice!)
* save to 1.5 Gb DVD-rw ok (great!)
* Abiword 2.8 (with conversion)
* new screenshot script & mini-window for choice of timing (very convenient)
* All programs under calculate sub-menu work fine. (Did this one as a spotcheck. Will check others later.)
Negative:
* Time zones
Canada/Eastern != GMT-5 (shoud be) Canada/Eastern takes me back 6 hours, indicates 12 pm when it should be 6 pm.
( Mind you, ZenWalk and a few others put the Montreal, Canada time zone in the middle of the Atlantic. Oh, well, our ancestors were mariners ! )
* CUPS: no USB port connection available for such printers. So still no printer available other than the CUPS-PDF.
* Asking for a clear screen at Startup still leaves all the disk icons. If you ask the pup-event script to leave only the "drives" icon in this "empty screen", it doesn't put it on, only the trash can remains.
Hm... Strange; it should be simple enough to have / create a completely empty PuppyPin in ROX using head and tail or echo and >>. Something like this structure:
head 3-4 first lines of PuppyPin > EmptyPuppyPin
tail last line of PuppyPin >> EmptyPuppyPin
rox -p=/root/Choices/ROX-Filer/EmptyPuppyPin
(Whatever programs that are on screen will stay there.)
jwm
* the jwm "add a button" feature does not seem to work
* script gives a "corrupt" message after 5 -6 times of changing and validating changes. So you have to do things manually again. (In all Puppies I've had, so this is not a dpup thing.)
* if you put jwm at top, title bars of programs slide under it, and programs become difficult to manage.
* right click on time in jwm bar does nothing. Checked ".jwmrc-tray" : clicking on the time should launch minixcal... Osmo's there, but where's minixcal?
* using htop, clicking on close button of jwm window does nothing. Luckily htop provides F10.
(If ever you were wondering why I prefer the echinus wm!
Well, now you know!)
Annoying:
* double eject of CD or DVD with save-to-CD option
* no item in control panel works... (work in progress?)
* nano editor not included (yikes!)
* only pburn as CD/DVD burning utility. I never had any luck burning isos to 1.5 Gb DVD's with it. Regression here since Puppy 3.01? It had 3 or 4: burniso2cd, tkburn (correct title?), and a couple of others?
* this posting, unfortunately...
That said, you still did a great job, gposil. Putting together a Puplet is never easy, as we all know. Thanks for accepting the task. Take heart. Italians have a proverb which applies nicely: "Criticism is easy, but art is difficult."
BFN