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« Reply #90 on Feb 2, 2012, 11:05am »

I'm thinking about creating a fork with real time kernel and a little different installer

First I was thinking about Xfce with some other existing WM, but I need a WM that will be a mixture of fvwm with some functionality from fluxbox. If there's none, I need to write/(change fvwm for) my own, and then I would preferably make it a standalone WM. For now I want to call it Salfire

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Re: Lets talk 2.0
« Reply #91 on Feb 14, 2012, 5:19pm »

Speaking of the installer how does this look:

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« Reply #92 on Feb 14, 2012, 7:27pm »

I like the looks of it. Always handy to have a nice set of configs. Everybody likes something different. YAD reallys seems to be a really nice tool for building scripts.

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« Reply #93 on Feb 14, 2012, 8:49pm »

I really do like how YAD does things, and it includes a whole bunch of features I have yet to use for anything. The RAM usage for YAD is actually another big reason to use it. Zenity requires 6 megabytes of RAM per dialog used and you don't regain that RAM until the script exits, YAD uses about 8-10 steadily while the script runs. When it comes to raw efficiency YAD is right up there with text based and NCURSES, as both of the ladder require having a terminal running (Which is 11 megabytes in itself). PyGTK isn't even in the same ballpark.

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Re: Lets talk 2.0
« Reply #94 on Feb 19, 2012, 5:52am »

petrek:
Sorry for the late answer. I don't miss any functionality in XFCE at all, but it is impossible to debate taste, isn't it?

I don't like KDE and some other stuff either so. I could probably install MATE myself, but I don't want to. I am done tweaking like crazy! Nowadays, I let other guys do the tweaking for me.

Anthony Nordquist:
I think you are doing a great work with this

If you are the only developer it is even more impressive!

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Re: Lets talk 2.0
« Reply #95 on Mar 9, 2012, 3:18am »

Just a quick update on the state of 2.0:

Clean has been updated with code to calculate the size of Un-Needed dependencies. Grub doctor has been added to git, ported to yad and code was changed up so that you can now safely run it from the installed system without causing the temporary havoc the current version does. The installer has gone through heavy testing in the last week and a whole host of bugs have been squashed, as well as a bunch of polishing was done. A new icon theme has been added to git and I have fixed the GTK errors and modified some of the icons to better suit SalineOS, you can find it in the Simple folder. Considering the number of changes I have made, I will be renaming it to something before shipping it as a courtesy to the upstream developers of it.

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Re: Lets talk 2.0
« Reply #96 on Mar 13, 2012, 5:06am »

Something I'd like....as would many upstanding citizens of the world.

I have a ton of movies ( all legally acquired, of course)

The file managers have basically tags, permissions and properties. How hard would it be to add "notes". I know I could keep adding details to the original file name but a "description-notes-rating" tab would be cool.

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« Reply #97 on Mar 13, 2012, 3:10pm »

This isn't something you are likely going to see from me, at least not implemented in this way. Having notes information in a tab would require adding a bunch of GTK widgets and another database which would slow Thunar down.

What is more likely would be to write a Thunar Custom action that hooks into a Yad script to allow you to view and edit a text field with all the notes you wanted for a file. This would take only an hour of coding, and wouldn't slow down Thunar when it isn't being used.

The only question left for me to answer is, is this functionality worth a spot in the right click menu in Thunar.

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« Reply #98 on Mar 13, 2012, 4:48pm »

Maybe we could have a library section in the HowTo's with miscellaneos Thunar Custom-actions?

It's going to get unwieldy to include everything that can be done.

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Re: Lets talk 2.0
« Reply #99 on Mar 13, 2012, 8:55pm »

A file notes custom action script is up in git, in case anyone wants to take a look at what it looks like. I am still not sold on it being all that useful personally

To install grab notes-ca from the CustomActions folder in git and move it to /usr/bin then do chmod +x /usr/bin/notes-ca

Open Thunar and go to configure custom actions and add this:
Name: File Notes
Description: Add notes to your files
Command: /usr/bin/notes-ca %n
Appearance Conditions: Select whatever you want.

Edit: Requires yad be installed.

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« Reply #100 on Mar 13, 2012, 11:09pm »

Very cool !. I'm on it !

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Re: Lets talk 2.0
« Reply #101 on Mar 22, 2012, 7:26am »

Don Antonio. Is Midori still on the charts ?

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Re: Lets talk 2.0
« Reply #102 on Mar 22, 2012, 1:52pm »

Mar 22, 2012, 7:26am, murdock wrote:

Don Antonio. Is Midori still on the charts ?

Yes.

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Re: Lets talk 2.0
« Reply #103 on Mar 22, 2012, 2:27pm »

Mar 22, 2012, 7:26am, murdock wrote:

Don Antonio. Is Midori still on the charts ?

I dunna understand, [image]

I remember having to disable proprietary video drivers with remastersys a few years ago and i'm only using stock video drivers, maybe that's why I can move backups between machines, Ill try an install on my laptop when I get a minute. [image]

Sorry about more pics Anthony, it won't happen again

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Re: Lets talk 2.0
« Reply #104 on Mar 22, 2012, 4:32pm »

Mar 22, 2012, 2:27pm, ukbrian wrote:

Mar 22, 2012, 7:26am, murdock wrote:

Don Antonio. Is Midori still on the charts ?

I dunna understand, [image]

Sorry about more pics Anthony, it won't happen again

I use the Propriety Driver for ATI and when I open Terminal and use remastersys dist, it takes it out and then the ISO has Anthony's Magix when you burn it to disk.

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