Puppyt wrote:Hey sc0ttman!
Loving your Akita beta3.
Good, glad you like it!
I'm currently having troubles with the Frisbee you had loaded in it
It might be a bit old, bit it's hacked a bit to run in pup4... Will have to look at updating, maybe.. There are a few updated pets on the forums, you could test those, maybe? I have no wireless to test - until I get my damn EeePC wifi working with 2.6.25.16.. Even ndiswrapper seems not to work!! (Not sure I got the right windows drivers though..)
I can copy the working wpa_supplicant.conf across from other pupplets on a given laptop ... and on restart Frisbee is spinning. But not here in Akita, at the moment.
This may have something to do with the version of wpa_supplicant used.. Akita is using the same wpa_supplicant as Wary, so maybe try stealing it from there??
Maybe I have 2 versions loaded and conflicting in the tray (there is the Frisbee aerial icon and the PuppyNetwork Manager
(world+ puppy-connected) icon)?
The Frisbee and Network_tray apps should not cause problems when both are running.. But yes, it does look confusing and a bit messy.
I figured users of Frisbee would load its tray app, users of other network tools would load the other one..
In the Frisbee dialogue, I can't get the "IP Address:" info even though it states "Connected to (BigPondXXXX)" beside it.
"IP Address:" is however revealed if I try Menu> Setup> Wizard> Network Wizard> Network Wizard (old default tool).
If I try to save the new profile, or look at the "Edit wpa_supplicant.conf" from within Frisbee - the connectivity drops out and Frisbee fails to reconnect automatically.
I might PM 01micko, and see if his new Frisbee pet for Slacko might be of use to Akita. I really am a total novice when it comes to networking.. I got auto eth0 connect working (thanks to shinobar), and that's about it..
I don't get jemimah's pop-ups of "etho down" and "wlan down" in Akita like I see in other pupplets, but that's probably just reflecting the underlying misfire with Akita, perhaps?
This is probably an unrelated issue from when I removed all references to gtk-splash, which is not insatlled in pup4 (or therefore Akita)... I should maybe have not been lazy and replaced gtk-splash with yaf-splash, where needed..
You probably are right across these issues with Frisbee2+Akita7 - I think I remember you mentioning some known incompatibilities in an earlier beta.
I only got as far as integrating Frisbee into the network manager choices, as best as I could, but do not have the knowledge to adjust Frisbees inner workings - only the GUI and a few little tweaks.. But without real networking knowledge, I'm a bit stuck!
I can see that you have been incredibly busy with this project. I really like the menu arrangement and the choice of apps...
Good... You can thank
Technosaurus for the menu,
wuwei for Conky and
many other users for all the apps!
as with your Xbindkeys (err - what's "Rover"? doesn't seem to work for me - either from the menu or using Alt+space) to get all my fav M$(spit-toohey) shortcuts up.
Rover is a search tool, jemimah put it together... Type 'rover_run' in the terminal to see it.. The 'Menu>Filesystem>Find>Rover' menu entry works fine in my install.. But yes, I did notice that the xbindkeys shortcut is broken for some reason, I will fix that..
Actually, I was planning on upgrading the xbindkeys and xbindkeys_config setup, and adding as many of the laptop/netbook/Fn key friendly shortcuts as I can.. This will include fixing Rover.
Overall looking "tight as"
. I appreciate very much the suite of rescue apps you've included (e.g., Memtest, swapfile manager, Pdisk, Pudd, Pbackup, Pmirror etc etc) which should help me develop good backup habits. I know I'll have fun with all those timers and alarms. Apart from the Frisbee issue, every thing looks absolutely hunky-dory and I look forward to using this (plus FireDog 3.6) with genuine intent in the coming months.
Good, I hope to get the final version finished within a month or so..
STILL gotta do a QuickPet thing though...
PS Any plans on making a FireDog-Aurora version?
I've not yet checked out the latest Firefox versions... The trouble would be that, at the moment, Mozilla are updating so often in the same 6.x or 7.x or 8.x branches, that whatever version I go for, Mozilla will force an update, which wipes lots of Firedogs setup and settings. It may also make some addons not work, and so on.. But when FF7 or FF8 (or whatever) has a long-term stable version, I will make another Firedog, I think.
Speaking of browsers, I have tried and tried but cannot get a working "Google Chrome" .pet package - I really want to add 'Chrome' to the browser installer, and make it an option in the browser selection. Does anyone know of a WORKING chrome .pet or .tar.gz that works in Akita?
**EDIT:
As for QuickPet - I
might simply create a single HTML page, that is opened using elinks.. The HTML page would contain:
- categorised packages (desktop, internet, fun, system, multimedia, etc)
- package names, file sizes, descriptions and download URL
- translations in French, German, Russian, Spanish
> Any objections to Akitas QuickPet being nothing more than an HTML page???