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Documentation

Needs a default homepage - Provide your design(s) here∞ (Lobster's Submission, )
Offline English Version of Oli's Manual∞ (Suggested by Lobster∞)

Speed Optimizations

Minimize Puppy components that loads to RAM (Suggested by Rarsa∞, )

Window Manager Inclusion

Only JWM (suggested by ,
Only IceWM (suggested by puppyfan12∞, )
Just IceWM & JWM (suggested by Nathan∞, pizzasgood∞, Eyes-Only∞)

IceWM Settings in /root/.icewm/preferences

# Manage root window (EXPERIMENTAL - normally enabled!)
GrabRootWindow=1 # 0/1

Bundled GTK theme Names

No Specific Theme Names Mentioned For Inclusion Yet

Hardware Interaction

SCSI Support (suggested by bobn9lvu∞)

Codec Support

All FOSS Codecs (suggested by Lobster∞
Bundle Proprietary Codecs (suggested by Smokey01∞

Software Usability Improvements

Generic Windows Desktop Look (suggested by puppyfan12∞, Lobster∞, )
Same Keyboard Shortcuts as Windows (suggested by puppyfan12∞, Lobster∞, )
App Association - Open files with specific app (suggested by Pizzasgood∞, Nathan F∞, WhoDO∞)
App Auto Start Manager (suggested by WhoDo∞, amish∞, )
Boot Splash Screen / Verbose Mode Toggle (suggested by Pizzasgood∞, puppyfan12∞, )
MurgaLUA Control Panel Alternative, developed in Gnocl or GINS (suggested by WhoDO∞, )
mouse wheel activating window shade mode (suggested by Previously known as Guest∞, pizzasgood∞, )
Keep old settings during an upgrade, ie: Browser Bookmarks, Icons & links, Wallpaper, Network settings, Modem settings (suggested by Smokey01∞, )
Universal Search Feature on desktop, menu or taskbar (suggested by Zigbert)
A completely unified icon theme (Suggested by Nathan∞, pizzasgood∞, Eyes-Only∞, Lobster∞, )
Fix existing bugs (Suggested by Rarsa∞, )
Fix the universal installer (Suggested by Rarsa∞, )

Wizards Additions & Improvements

New Network Wizard UI (Suggested by Rarsa∞, ) link1∞ & "Network Not Saving Parameters" link2∞
Add other WPA encryption to Network Wizard (Suggested by Rarsa∞, )
An appearence manager (Suggested by Rarsa∞, )

Menus & Dialogs

Cleanup XDG Menu Categorization (Suggested by Rarsa∞, )
Provide alternative menu structures (Suggested by Rarsa∞, )

Feature Requests

Multi User Capabilities (suggested by Nathan∞, pizzasgood∞, [[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=98211#98211∞ Eyes-Only, )

Hardware Usability Improvements

Automount Drives (suggested by Smokey01, ∞)

Tiny Bundled Libraries / Programming Environments

GINS (suggested by BarryK, WhoDO∞, Rarsa∞, )
Gnocl as the UI toolkit for tcl development (suggested by BarryK, WhoDO∞, Rarsa∞, Nathan∞, )
Exclude Java, leave as a dotpup (suggested by Lobster∞, )

Final Size of Standard

70-85 mb (suggested by pizzasgood∞

Final Size of Office Edition

Feature Requests

From puppyfan12
These ideas are for my own Puplet∞ for Xplatform use and easing migration from win32 to linux. They were brought over by Lobster but need to be sorted still as some may not apply to Puppy 215CE.

let the user know a program has been executed and is loading for older/slower computers to avoid opening the application several times - requested by mossenuba & Leon∞, VariEze ∞ Done? Guesttoo's dialogue∞ work around - pop's up when executing scripts.
a way to toggle a 'loading bitmap' vs the default verbose mode when loading puppy
Encrypted pup_save file∞

Rarsa's Improved RDP Client∞
Rarsa's Tray Volume selector∞
Rarsa's Puppy Volume Mixer∞
Rarsa's puppy Measurement/Units Convertor∞
Rarsa's TkMines∞ (with a cleaned up UI)
Sunburnt's .sfs management utils∞
Drag and Drop Features investigate this post by MU∞
'mimic' win32 'recent documents' in the puppy menu using symbolic links with a simple gui checkbox somewhere to enable/disable that feature
Make windows key + L start xscreensaver/xlock/xlockmore type function (same shortcut as windows for locking the screen before walking away from pc)
My dotpup/petget requests..hopefully I can learn to compile these myself (link∞)
troubleshoot issues with the shutdown icon in puppy | (link to forum post)∞
'mimic' win32 'recent documents' in the puppy menu using symbolic links
a right click on the desktop should give a menu option to change at least the following: the resolution, refresh rate, themes, desktop background, screensaver, power management.
Implementing a control panel that gives similar configuration options as OSX and windows control panel.
Make double clicking the clock bring up a calendar. Ability to adjust time/date/timezone is a plus.
Multi-User Puppy?
Fonts overlap when printing thunderbird emails using Cups
Make windows key + L start xscreensaver/xlock/xlockmore∞ type functions
Lightweight screensaver that plays avi file & optionally play slideshow of images in a directory
Create howto for enabling thunderbird spam filter and moving it from inbox into Junk Folder
Create howto for enabling thunderbird auto responder (reply with template filter)
GUI wizard to select alternative (existing) directories containing data profiles (for firefox, thunderbird, gaim)

puppyfan12 - useful tools

the 1.9mb ppviewer.exe∞ to view powerpoint stuff with wine would be helpful.

From XandaS

* please include opera - Opera can be added but will not likely be the default. -- CrustyLobster
* please include adsl-start - Adsl autostart would slow Puppy down - it only has to be set once . . . -- -- CrustyLobster

From Oli

I suggest to add the following software:

For music:

easytag (mp3-editing)

audacity

id3v2

lame For pictures:

jhead

imagemagick For encryption:

bcrypt
For deleting files:

shred
For backup:

rsync
For multimedia:

flash9

mplayer + codecs

xmms
For network:

nmap

LOF∞ as a photoshop user, wants gimp over gimpshop.

Smokey01∞ questioned inclusion of webcam software in CE standard

Code Submissions
Code for auto DHCP

#from MU
rm -f /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-*.pid
dhcpcd 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null &
update-mime-database /usr/share/mime 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null &

The fix for flash-9 is tested and working: (thanks to Billcnz∞ and desertpuppy)
link#1∞, link#2∞. link#3∞.

# Include /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins in the plugin path:
if [ "$MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH" ] ; then
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=$MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH:${moz_libdir}/plugins:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
else
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=${moz_libdir}/plugins:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
fi
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH

Something that desertpuppy and I noticed is when firefox updates itself it will overwrite this script and loose customizations, to overcome this I renamed the firefox start script to mozilla-bin (also for consistency with what we were doing with seamonkey). You do need to edit another line in the script for this to work:
MOZILLA_BIN="${progbase}-bin"
change to MOZILLA_BIN="firefox-bin"

Suggestions:
1. Add multi-user capability similar to what they have in GrafPup 2.0 so we don't have to run as root all the time.
2. It seemed very difficult to add applications to the taskbar in this beta so they can be launched without having to minimize everything on your screen. Would it be possible to have a slimmed down version of KDE like they had a few months ago? This would also enable us to install popular programs like K3B.
3. Most people need a good browser like Firefox or Seamonkey and a good office program like Open Office. Many of the other programs like photo editors, calendars, games, html editors, paint, draw, chat, contacts, etc. could be left out as long as there was a easy, user friendly way to add them if needed. This would help cut down on bloat that many persons might not need.
4. Our 0ac8:305b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Vimicro webcam and our 046d:08d7 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX webcam now work on Kubuntu 7.04 A5 . Can we get this capability into Puppy?

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