Now that I have gotten this far, I am open to recommendations on the most important components to upgrade or add, to make Lucid Pup continue to be desirable. Keep in mind, though, that I do not have playdayz' skills at resolving issues with new items. So, we need to focus on components that are safe to add, or can easily be made so, and can be tested/verified by someone besides me. I plan to start with recent woof fixes to add to the ones I have already included.
Dear Rerwin: as a daily user of 528-4, my suggestions for a 528 upgrade would be:
- upgrade Python to the last 2 series (2.73 ?) and add Tkinter (tk-python).
Python is part of the devx, and that is where Tkinter would reside. Tkinter is a simple GUI builder. Alternate, have Tkinter in the PPM.
- 528 runs openbox. Contact one of the guys in "my puppy is more gorgeous" or "eye candy" thread to make a nice selection of wallpaper, icon set, and openbox theme, to have a professional appearance out of the box. Maybe add VICZM's Openbox Plus. It is not my intention to add CPU intense graphics packages, but just to have somebody with good feeling for eye candy look at the appearance. i.e. I personally like the iPAD2 icon theme, and use it on almost all my puppies. And that is a small change to make. And a new wallpaper .... also a small change.
This is openbox:
http://postimg.org/image/d93rou1l3/
Also look at the menu structure in that picture. More levels, and less entries. Better for people that are new to puppy. The terminal could be a little less transparent though.
And this:
http://postimg.org/image/yvono8dhr/
And this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=55907
And this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=50847
And this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=49721
And this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=43438
And this:
(Tinted Slacko)
- Add 01micko's (Sorry...Slacko's) desktop icon templates tool. I useually select to have only 5 icons, and the drive icons. But also the 0 icon selection is good since 528 have a full right-click menu.
- Cups can use an update. Since 528-5 so many new printers have been released.
- Unmounting by clicking on the disc icon on the desktop. Slacko and Precise have this, when you click on the top right corner of the drive icon, it unmounts. In 528 I have to right-click an select "unmount" in the list.
- a terminal program where I can "cut and paste" with the same shortcuts as I can in other programs (either ctrl-C, ctrl-X and ctrl-V, or rightclick copy and rightclick paste).