myDSL Wishlist
Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: myDSL Wishlist
started by: clivesay
Posted by clivesay on June 26 2004,14:26
I thought I would start a wishlist in case anyone was interested in building myDSL files. I just built my first one but it was very simple. These are more involved.I have a NFP refurbishing old machines for kids and I would like to give these a try if they were available. ThanksSIM (Simple Instant Messenger)
GCompris
Frozen Bubble
TuxPaint
TuxType
Thanks
Chris
Posted by ke4nt1 on June 26 2004,14:58
I've made progress on 'Frozen Bubble', but it is a hungry app.it requires a lot of libs and packages not included with DSL.
Basically, a lot of stuff that you'd get from doing a dist-upgrade
from the unstable mirrors.. yuck..
The others are more promising.....
ke4nt
Posted by clivesay on June 26 2004,15:04
I felt pretty good after my xtet42.dsl so I brought in frozen-bubble. Boy, was I kidding myself! You are right, there is a ton of stuff involved. That experience inspired this post. I will continue to find small apps to play with and leave the big ones for the people like you who really know what they are doing!
Chris
Posted by TheDood on June 26 2004,16:16
To add to the wishlist:XMahjongg
Posted by ke4nt1 on June 26 2004,17:44
I have put together the tuxtype.dsl ...It includes both desktop icon and mydsl-menu choices.
you can find it here for the moment...
< http://www.creativesound.com/ares/ >
tuxtype.dsl
tuxtype.dsl.lsm
tuxtype.dsl.md5.txt
Good idea on the xmahjongg....
Anyone want to volunteer for that one???
73
ke4nt
Posted by clivesay on June 26 2004,18:13
Thank You!
Posted by ke4nt1 on June 26 2004,18:24
Let me know how it works for you...73
ke4nt
Posted by clivesay on June 26 2004,18:38
I don't have a desktop icon but it works perfectly from the menu.Chris
Posted by ke4nt1 on June 26 2004,20:20
I made some further changes...try the download again, please..Moved the icon, added start script, the lsm file should say ver 1.2
as of 3:20 pm CST , the new files are available..
73
ke4nt
Posted by clivesay on June 27 2004,00:37
When I tried to load it into the live CD I got the icon and the menu item but when I try to run it I get "tar: invalid tar magic". Is anyone else getting this or is it just me? ThanksChris
Posted by ke4nt1 on June 27 2004,01:14
Usually, when I get that, it is a bad download...How does the md5sum compare ?
Try the d/l again...
and the xmahjongg is available.....
< http://www.ibiblio.org/pub....testing >
73
ke4nt
Posted by TheDood on June 27 2004,04:40
Regarding your prompt notification of the current availability of the XMahjongg myDSL extension: HOLY MOLY! That was fast. My eternal gratitude.
Posted by Nathanielban on July 11 2004,15:51
I was really wondering if someone could make a windowmaker.dsl? i really love window maker a lot and miss it. other than that i love dsl! please help!
Posted by kh1d on July 15 2004,10:03
i've been testing DSL since its .6.2it has improved ALOT.
and i really like the .dsl functionality.
thanks to john, robert, and others who spent time molding DSL into a small MIGHTY distro.
um... can someone make a .dsl for gnumeric?
good day!
Posted by Tomo on July 15 2004,14:53
I wouldnt mind seeing somebody do a .dsl version of wine.Im just lazy i know
Posted by cbagger01 on July 15 2004,16:34
Don't hold your breath waiting for a wine extension. Wine is notoriously difficult to get working on a regular full featured Linux distro. I think that getting it to work on a stripped down livecd would be a major accomplishment.Good luck to anyone who is working on this one.
Posted by mpie on July 15 2004,18:08
i have seen a debian version so if deps can be met not impossible but would be a massive file too big for a live cd really so not really appropriate to the project
Posted by clacker on July 15 2004,18:24
I believe the KNOPPIX live CD has wine installed. Perhaps you could try that to see how it works. I agree with everyone else, it would make DSL much larger.
Posted by cbagger01 on July 16 2004,01:29
The KNOPPIX live CD has wine installed on the disk.However, getting it to actually WORK is a different story all together...
I'd rather not publish programs that don't work properly for 9 out of 10 people
Posted by Envel on July 18 2004,02:25
how aboot freeciv?
Posted by ke4nt1 on July 18 2004,03:33
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and Civilization II , one of my all-time favs...
It works well when run under the latest stock WINE..
Even network multiplayer playability is good between linux and windows.
That would be worth building a wine.dsl for !
Unfortunately, WINE is a pig when it comes to resources...
73
ke4nt
Posted by Ed Cardinal on Sep. 09 2004,18:59
I would love to see a myDSL for dosemu (including the freedos, of course!)...
Posted by clivesay on Sep. 09 2004,23:32
I would like to have a light version of Powerpoint. Would someone mind trying something like magicpoint? You have to compile and I am not good at that yet. ThanksChris
Posted by reidar on Sep. 10 2004,08:35
I have used DSL for some months, although not contributed much to the forum... But I would also love to see magicpoint as a dsl extension! That would be great!I would also like to suggest antiword. I actually thought DSL had it, but I can't seem to find it, and I don't like wv so much. With antiword you can view M$-word documents, convert them to .txt or .ps. With ps2pdfwr (which is in DSL) you can easily convert .ps to .pdf, which is great, since you already have xpdf! That way you can produce pdf-files from almost anything with the combo: antiword, ps2pdfwr and a2ps (which is also present). Ted can also print to .ps, and then you can convert to pdf. That way the distro would become more complete, IMO.
Another suggestion is pdftk, which I think is great. (I like pdfs...) With that tool you can split pdf-docs into single-page pdf-files, remove certain pages, put together two separate pdf-docs into one new pdf-document, etc.
-r
Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 10 2004,13:39
Magicpoint sounds kinda interesting....so I guess I know what I'll be doing after breakfastRainy days = messing around with software
Posted by clivesay on Sep. 10 2004,18:03
milkshaw -That would be much appreciated! Thanks
Chris
Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 10 2004,18:51
Hmmm...I don't understand this application. I tried compiling it with --prefix=/opt/magicpoint, but it was still installed into /usr/X11R6/...and then I discover I have no idea how to use it
I can't very well test it out if I don't know how it works, or even how to launch it....does it even have a gui?
Posted by clivesay on Sep. 10 2004,18:56
It is an X11 app. Here is the homepage < MagicPoint >HTH
Chris
Posted by Nikolaus on Sep. 11 2004,14:58
As addition to the wishlist I would like to suggest Skype. I used on my winbox and it's really great. I don't want to miss it switching to linux.
Using an older notebook I'm just playing around with DSL - great distro - and thinking about installing it as sole OS (if I'm able to solve some problem with X)
Exits there a howto for newbies to make a mydsl-extension? I did search, but couldn't find it ;)
Thanks for your patiance and please keep the good work up :-)
Nikolaus
Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 11 2004,15:17
There is a skype extension in the testing repository.Keep in mind that "testing" is exactly that...it's not yet been classified as a fully-working package and should be used only with a liveCD for now.
There isn't a how-to, but in this forum are several threads on the subject....all the information you need is here.
Posted by clivesay on Sep. 13 2004,14:30
Mikshaw -I actually found magicpoint in the debian unstable repository under mgp!
I was excited and apt-get'd it. Well, I have it on my desktop but cannot figure out, for the life of me, how to start the darn thing!
I did a whereis mgp and received the locations. When I try to run each one, I just get a list of switches. I looked through the docs but can't find anything about the executable.
This is very embarassing but I need help. Can anyone help me start the darn program?! Thanks
Chris
Posted by reidar on Sep. 14 2004,05:56
If you have installed it through apt-get you should go to /usr/share/doc. Here there is a directory called mgp, and that is the key. It contains README-files, a directory with examples, etc. I copied the entire mgp-directory to my /home/user area, for easier access. If you want to start the program, you go the the /mgp/examples folder. There you find several example-slideshows. You start one of them by typing 'mgp sample.mgp' in a prompt, and the slideshow called sample.mgp starts displaying in fullscreen mode. You can move forward and backward by using the arrow-keys, but you can also use space key, vi-keys (j-k...etc.). It is all explained in the slideshows. It is really a very powerful tool. The drawback is that you need to create the files (or change the files) in a text editor, but to me that seems like more of an advantage What you can do is to make a copy of the /examples folder and start creating your own versions of the slides in a text editor. The slideshows are rather self-explanatory really, and it is really amazing what you can actually do with this application.
If you don't want to start it in fullscreen mode, there are several options, like 'mgp -g 800x600 sample.mgp' should start it in a 800x600 window for instance.
Good luck exploring a wonderful presentation app!!! (I really hope to see a .dsl version of it soon, as it would be great to have access to this tool from a live-cd also. It is already in Knoppix I think, but dsl is so much better in many ways, so we should have it as an extension!)
-r
Posted by clivesay on Sep. 14 2004,12:35
Thank you so much!! I read the docs but I guess I didn't pick up that I needed to start one of the samples. I will play with this tonight. If I understand how to use it, I will work on creating the .dsl unless someone else beats me to it.
I thought magicpoint would be the perfect compliment to siag office in the really old machines (I am talking about PI's). When I showed the schools the OS I had created for the PC's I am going to donate to kids, they really wanted a presentation software included if possible. I am hoping that magicpoint will be that missing link!
Thanks again, reidar.
Chris
Posted by reidar on Sep. 14 2004,12:38
You're welcome Chris! Hope you enjoy magicpoint as much as I do, and I hope you will make a .dsl of it also. Would be great! I also believe it would be a great compliment to siag office, which I have just discovered myself. I just love finding out about "new" linux-apps, especially if they are small, light on resources (as I have an old laptop) and still powerful!
Posted by Guest on Sep. 14 2004,20:43
i need a little Help i try install etherape-0.9.1.tar.gz with mydsl on dsl 0.8.11
but it don't works :-<
i get it with Synaptic and it works fine [but i am not always online]
so what must i do to start it ?
or can anybody make a etherape.dsl file ?
Thanks Andy
sorry my broken english
Posted by Delta-9 on Sep. 17 2004,16:37
I'm curious if anyone has looked at XPde/XPwm? I know some things are virtually impossible because of deps, but this is way over my head. Please, b4 branding me a Linux heretic and organizing a mob to burn me
, consider the fact that many people must constantly switch back and forth from Bill's world to that of Linus and anything that allows them to "just do it" rather than having to spend time figuring out "how to do it" is a real time-saver. I've never really liked Luna myself, it's rather garish. But, it is what probably 80%+ of the world looks at on a daily basis. So, I find the idea of making crossover a no-brainer very interesting .
Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 17 2004,18:32
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=2427 >
Posted by ico2 on Sep. 17 2004,19:15
xpde would be cool,it would make dsl more n00b compatable, personally i think xp sucks, it's not that it isn't stability wise better than some of the crap microsoft has rolled out, it's just the stupid bleeding colours and the balloons telling you stuff you knew when you were 4.
i have never used xpde but i guess it will carry most of the annoyances accross, if you want a n00b compatable wm then how about fvwm, i might use that when i eventually take up the task of introducing my family to linux.
Posted by Delta-9 on Sep. 17 2004,22:40
ico2 -Thanks, but I think you may have missed the point. I can vaguely recall fvwm from the days when it was one of the 3 or 4 WMs that existed, very Win95-ish if memory serves. Probably rather primitive compared to fluxbox or IceWM, both of which I'm actually rather fond of. What I'm looking for is something so that I don't have to stop and think "O.K. Now I'm in Linux, how do I edit a text file again?" No, I'm not stupid, I just consider it very inefficient having to think about how to accomplish such a simple task
! Converting the M$ masses is a great side-project, but not my primary goal.mikshaw -
I haven't seen 0.5.1 yet, but 0.5.0 was more like a proof of concept, really no more than a skeleton of a desktop and window manager. Although it never even occurred to me that it might not be configurable. A number of custom apps are available at < http://kylixapps.narod.ru/ > but I'm waiting for debXPde 1.0.0 (aka Barnix) to get some idea what can be done with it. If it can't be configured, then it'll be utterly worthless as a generic desktop & WM though. Another good idea poorly executed, I guess. Thanks for your link & feedback!
Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 18 2004,03:05
It looked to me like 0.5.1 is still proof of concept....the look is pretty much the same as XP, and it seems like it will eventually have very similar access to configuration, such as a control panel and display configuration that looks like XP, but these features are very limited in its present state.Plus the lack of customization in other areas which are standard in just about any other window manager (start menu for example) makes me think that this is not yet ready for a linux user, much less a windows user.