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tasmod · #1501 Post by **tasmod** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:05

OK here's what's happening.

Clock skin is compressed png at 90%

Ring is totally uncompressed.

Compare sizes and it correlates.

tasmod · #1502 Post by **tasmod** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:07

Need to apply compression in clock-skin chooser. How?

Or fixed in 1.9.10

WhoDo · #1503 Post by **WhoDo** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:08

tasmod wrote:OK here's what's happening.

Clock skin is compressed png at 90%

Ring is totally uncompressed.

Compare sizes and it correlates.

Great catch, Rob!

WhoDo · #1504 Post by **WhoDo** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:10

tasmod wrote:Need to apply compression in clock-skin chooser. How?

Or fixed in 1.9.10

Well, 1.9.10 doesn't use Ring.png as the default any more. It uses Clock-analog.png which resides in /root/.pwidgets/misc directory. Haven't checked to see if Clock-analog.png is inordinately large yet.

EDIT: Just checked and Sigmund has Clock-analog.png as a symlink not a copy of the skin, so 1.9.10 is just repointing the link and not copying. Problem should be solved UNLESS you actually copy something. I'll still look at lzma as a potential source for the problem, too.

Thanks.

01micko · #1505 Post by **01micko** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:11

@davesurrey

Can you try the latest Pwidgets-1..9-10 (available from main post) with your current config and give a report? Please delete "~/.pwidgets" dir before installing.

Thankyou.

trio · #1506 Post by **trio** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:13

Dave
Thank to you too for using pwidgets and glad you like it

Whodo
You're welcome to "hijack" anytime..right guys

01micko · #1507 Post by **01micko** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:18

WhoDo is not the hijacker... I did it last year

tasmod · #1508 Post by **tasmod** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:42

Been unable to post, server throwing debug errors at me.

I've updated this pc with 1.9.10 and so far so good, compared to 1.9.9 which somehow my machines did not like.
I think Z quietly improves pw without saying too much.

Moon phase oddity, web feed has moved to its 4th gif associated with full moon. Throws my guesswork out.

I found and lost an rss feed for local time around 100 locations complete with DST applied. Just need to find it again.

R

davesurrey · #1509 Post by **davesurrey** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:44

Ok I deleted my .pwidgets directory.

Installed pwidgets 1.9.10 pet and the rebooted x server.

Results:
in ~/.pwidgets/clock_skins I have six clocks-skins:
JQ8yell is 77kB
Ring is 6701B
all others are less than 2kB

Confirmed that selecting another clock-skin doesn't change this.

WhoDo suggested to look at clock-analog-png in ~/.pwidgets/misc
It was 77kB.

HTH

Sorry if I have inadvertently put this in the wrong thread.

Again, thanks gang for a really classy project.

Dave

trio · #1510 Post by **trio** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:51

Guys

This forum starting to drive me crazy! On off on off on off ...

tasmod · #1511 Post by **tasmod** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 15:05

Looks like resize png needs -quality (value) to add compression, otherwise no compression but expansion to original quality size.

i.e. resize png (somethings) -quality 90%

Rob

trio · #1512 Post by **trio** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 15:18

rob

Exactly what I meant above, the process of resizing clock skin should try:

resizepng bla.png Clock_analog.png 140 140 80 (something like this)

tasmod · #1513 Post by **tasmod** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 16:24

Forum needs a reboot

Zigbert,

Hope you don't mind. I've created a script executed by a desktop icon that will turn on and off pwidgets plus return background to default, then to pwidgets-background when on.

Needs trial outside of my machine.

Will pet it, hopefully. Not sure about creating icon on desktop?

Rob

tasmod · #1514 Post by **tasmod** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 16:38

Here is the pet, not sure how to make it a desktop exec plus icon.

I dragged it out to desktop and assigned usr/share/midi-icons/shutdown48.png

zigbert · #1515 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:27

The 77kb clock issue
The 77kb is not inside the Pwidgets package and hopefully not inside the Puppy iso. It is built at first run. Whatever clock is chosen is rescaled to 140x140 pixels by 'resizepng'. As some of you pointed out, we can reduce the size by decreasing the quality. I don't see any difference using 100% or 50% or 1% (do you ?). At 50% the size has reached its minimum at 23kb. The other way to do it is to skip resizing, and only make a symlink in /root/.pwidgets/misc/Analog-clock. If keeping the same clock-skins as in the original package we need to resize all the clocks to 140x140. Some skins are scaled down in the pwidgets package, so these must be resized. I don't know exactly what size we would end up with.....

Worse is the fact that /usr/share/background/pwidgets-background is stored without compression because I couldn't figure out that 'blendpics' has such an option. The use of /usr/share/background/pwidgets-background was introduced with Sidebars. Melting wallpaper and sidebar needs (?) to be done in actual size. As a positive side-effect, Wallpaper is always scaled correct (or not scaled), so both rox and conky shows an equal background. This gives us perfect transparency for conky widgets (which was an issue for Pwidgets in earlier days.) But again, - /usr/share/background/pwidgets-background is not a part of Pwidgets package, and shouldn't be inside the Puppy 4.2 iso either.

Sigmund

tasmod · #1516 Post by **tasmod** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:40

There's a slight problem with making all skins 140 140.

I tried this early days when I first downloaded them, it's centering.

You have to be careful when creating them first time, that the clock arms are central, else they look very odd.

Are you OK with the On-Off pet ?

zigbert · #1517 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:53

Mr. Lane
I have used some of your code in my Stop/Start function. Hope you not feel offended.

Sigmund

zigbert · #1518 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 18:07

Rob

I have 'improved' (in my opinion

) the code a bit. Take a look:

if [ you want to start pwidgets ]; then
mv /usr/sbin/fixwidgets /usr/sbin/fixwidgets.bak
for I in `ps -eo pid,command | grep -wE "conky|xonclock|xli|http://rss.accuweather.com" | awk '{print $1}'`; do kill -9 $I; done
for I in `ps -eo pid,command | grep "mplayer -wid " | awk '{print $1}'`; do kill -9 $I; done
rm /usr/share/backgrounds/Pwidgets_background
TMP="`cat $HOME/.config/wallpaper/bg_img`"
/usr/local/apps/Wallpaper/set_bg "$TMP"
fi
if [ you want to stop Pwidgets ]; then
mv /usr/sbin/fixwidgets.bak /usr/sbin/fixwidgets
fixwidgets -wallpaper_setter
fi

This should remove all traces and processes (I hope).

Sigmund

tasmod · #1519 Post by **tasmod** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 18:08

oooo too formal.

I 'm flattered, but seeing as part of it is hacked from your fixwidgets, I suppose it's only fair

Do perl scripts actually work with pwidgets(conky). I've tried two now with no results.

I've borrowed someone else's xml parsing perl script, but cannot get anything.

It's a beaut as well. Does football league tables of choice from around world. Includes individual top scorers in league as well.

zigbert · #1520 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 12 Mar 2009, 18:13

Pearl is only partly supported by Puppy. Barry made a minor pearl package with only the modules that he needed.

football league tables - that's a great idea.
Why not do that in bash ? - Come on, you can do it.

Sigmund

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