Release Candidates :: DSL v4.0rc3



With v4.0 we have four systems competing for controls of the background.

1. dfm, which the dslpanel/backgrounds should now call. wallpaper.lua is deprecated. It will be removed in the next RC

2. jwm: by specifying it in the .jwmrc

3. fluxbox: styles which could have an embedded bgset or xsri command

4. xinitrc: which could also have a manually issued xsri command.

When switching desktops and/or themes who wins control of the background?

Personally, with v4 I try to only use dfm and let it control the background.

I did not remove the embedded backgrounds in certain fluxbox styles as some may wish not to use icons and therefore dfm is out.

Since DSL can be run in so many ways, you may experience this war of the backgrounds.

Quote (roberts @ Sep. 15 2007,10:02)
I will attempt to make it automatic as part of the extension loader.
We will need to adopt a convention similiar to that of the menu item. That being I will look for a directory of the form /opt/extname/lib/

Where extname must match as the menu item currently does.
Example: abiword-4.uci

I will look for /opt/abiword-4/lib/

Doing this should make it easier to build self contained applications.

Update: I have automatic /etc/ld.so.cache working for uci .so libraries .
I will release one more RC with this and a few more new features including a GUI dfmext editing tool
Hi again Robert!

Thanks for responding. I know it's hard to combine three desktop managers and the only wish with my post was to notify you about the things I mentioned. Looking forward to the next RC!

Have fun working along with DSL,
meo
was there any change to 'less' ?
i think i remember  (dsl 2.1b) when using 'less' from aterm, that it auto resized the number of text lines if resized the shell window. but it now it stays stuck at 25 lines.
(it works okay with 'vi').

i can confirm emelfm works like a dream. i really would vote for the
it's icon to be default on the distro desktop. i've been using dfm
everyday for a week now, it's great for dragNdrop but it doesn't quite substitute for a file manager.
Using busybox less, gnu less costs 104K. Is it worth it?
I will put emelfm in jwm taskbar instead of the folder to dfm.
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