I've been quietly using diff Puppies for quite some time. The reason that you don't see me on forums is that, unlike many of you, I am a common linux user/ not a programmer. So when you're discussing some geekie- I only read your thoughts and try to follow.
Let me thank you all (1st of all Berry and developers of slacko, presise and other puppets' ). You're doing a massive load of work. You've already created great distros and cater to a tiny and faithfull audience
As a user, I pay attentin to details you geeks don't. Recently I tried a simple task to beautify the desktop, but failed to
The idea is simple - to visually improve JWM right-click menu (right on desktop) and a panel. I’m a fan of lightweight WMs: jwm, flux, openbox etc What I mean? To picture my idea, pls look at, say, crunchbang openbox concept: no icins/clear desktop, nice right-click menu, nice tint2 panel. 1) So what I did was - went to different files (one by one) and tried to configure them (I read instructions when those are present). But see NO result
So (i.e. I’m on precise 5.7. right now) my path is like: ~ .icewm/menu --> usr/bin/fixmenus --> etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc. I want to change the appearance, the naming, maybe the icons but I can NOT see the outcome:(
For example, you right-click - the MENU pops-up, you choose there -> the other menu follows. Now we can make even 3 menus (like the mentioned two, plus the third one - transfer some items from 2nd menu to 3rd one,); we can change the naming in menus; we can delete(!) all words in 1st menu leaving only beautiful icons there – what a nice idea, ah? – to have just a slicky 1st menu with nice icons and no words; and 2nd and 3rd menus modify as we like. That would look really nice. Anyway, I couldn't do anything in those files; I couldn't even find the 2nd pop-up menu commands there – to try and change them. Needless to mention icons in 1st right-click menu – where and how to find them, to begin with?
2)My second task was to make that ugly panel (bottom one) look nicier: make it, say transparent, change the dog-face on a super-key, rearrange stuff or better – make it DISappear to pop-up only when I point my cursor there: quite standard option today. But I can NOT do that: there are strange options inbuilt: only color and style differ.
Bottomline:
guys, could you come up w your suggestions on HOW TO make changes in our beautiful puppies? I mean 2 abovementiond points.
Hope to hear from you soon. Oh yeah... and don't forget to include these changes in your upcoming releases - our little puppies will bark 'big advertised distros' unconsciously : ) Our puppies are mighty; what they lack is a bit of style to bite
