Release Candidates :: DSL v4.0rc5



@mikshaw

You are correct about xtdesk's support of xpm icons. However, I decided to leave well enough alone. The icons in 3.x and prior use 48x48. It would look very inconsistent to have a mix of 32x32. So for aesthetic reasons I am supporting both.

To support a menuless environment, if an extension creates a menu item, a .app will be created. If the extension has no xpm icon then the default "open box" will be use by association.

The goal of 4.0 is to try to support a menuless drag-n-drop environment in the traditional under 50MB size.
As far as I know, xpdf is the lightest pdf reader available. Unless gv was replacing it?

Which spreadsheet should replace Siag? The cli ones are light, but will not be newbie-friendly..
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Hmm.. Robert could you post somewhere a list of apps considered for removal/adding?
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Nothing decided for sure. Just an open discussion.



Hmm, just a though... not sure if this is feasible... would it be possible to get rid of perl? What essential utilities or application requires the perl interpreter?
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Hmm.. Robert could you post somewhere a list of apps considered for removal/adding?
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Nothing decided for sure. Just an open discussion.



Hmm, just a though... not sure if this is feasible... would it be possible to get rid of perl? What essential utilities or application requires the perl interpreter?

Perl: ndiswrapper comes to mind. Over the releases of ndiswrapper their use of perl went from no pms to requiring several.
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To support a menuless environment, if an extension creates a menu item, a .app will be created. If the extension has no xpm icon then the default "open box" will be use by association.
I'm not sure, but this sounds like if there isn't a menu item there also will not be an open box created. Is this correct? That would solve the library/non-interactive-app question.

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xpdf is the lightest pdf reader available. Unless gv was replacing it?
From a glance, it looks like DSL has all the necessary libs for gv, and it doesn't need mowitz. I'm not sure about the size difference, but if both gvu and xpdf were removed for gv, I'm guessing you *might* save a little room. But as I said, I haven't compared gv's pdf quality. I've opened a few and they look fine, but it might not support some pdf features that are found in xpdf.

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would it be possible to get rid of perl?
Personally I wouldn't miss Perl at all, but I think it would be really annoying for all the wireless folks who depend on ndiswrapper. Keep bugging the manufacturer of your wireless card, and of your friends' and families' wireless cards, to release the specs to their hardware so that free and complete Linux drivers can be created for that hardware.


I haven't looked at your (robert's) code yet, but I plan to make a slight modification to exit.lua. Its current behavior, if you uncheck "backup" and then select "reboot" (or "shutdown" if reboot is already selected), is to automatically re-check "backup". This doesn't seem like a logical behavior, and I assume it will be a minor thing to change.
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