Commodore OS Vision Forum

Hallos, few suggestions:

1) Can worker (filemanager) be added. It is a valueble tool i always use and it hardly takes any space at all.
2) Can Gambas 3 be updated to the latest version. I worked on a program in Endeavor OS (uses archlinux) wich uses a newer version apperantly so i cant work on my program right now.
3) the minimization of programs as it is handled by cairo atm is poor. would have been much better if that would be handled by the top bar and let cairo just be a program starter imho. I am not a Mate nerd so not sure if thats possible.
4) install of a nvidia package went wrong on my install (laptop with duall gpu) and it cant be fixed it seems (goto figure thatone out still). This prevents me from installing software with the package manager.

my 2cp
Caved

Hi Caved,
Thank you for your suggestions....
I'm just doing some research on your suggestions, and will get back to you with an answer shortly.

I would suggest adding K3b for a CD/DVD burning application.
Taking a general look before installing it - Synaptic says that Brasero is installed, although it is not apparent in the menus, nor does it launch from console. When installed and launched, Brasero has problems getting a lock on the drive to write to it. xfburn has the same problem.
I decided to just install the old standby K3b and it works perfectly. No muss, no fuss. I'm one of those weird people that like to have physical copies of my stuff, and I still burn DVDs and make sleeves for DVD cases that have spots for two discs. Yeah, it's only 4.7GB on a standard DVD, but to me... it's nice to just have my stuff organized into video, audio, software, backups, etc. and just be able to grab a case, pop it open, and slap a disc in.

#caved
Worker....Absolutely yes!!! I've been looking for something like that.
I had, I think DirOpus or a clone of it on my Amiga 1000 in the 80s.
The closest I could find on linux was Midnight Commander which is text based.
If you go to a terminal and type "mc" you will see it is like a simplified version of worker.

To install worker is as simple as and following the prompts.
It will definitely be included in the the next Commodore OS version.
FIXTODO

You're right, Gambas3 v3.18 isn't the latest version. It is up to v3.20 by the looks of it.
It would appear that the Debian repository hasn't been updated which is a surprise.
Here's some commands that will update Gambas to the latest version.
I will automate this update soon.
FIXTODO

"the minimization of programs as it is handled by cairo atm is poor. would have been much better if that would be handled by the top bar and let cairo just be a program starter imho. I am not a Mate nerd so not sure if thats possible."

Yes, cairo dock was substituted for the avant dock which was far better, but was no longer supported.
The dock was used in the first place, as there was a feeling at the time circa 2011 to follow Apple with a dock, rather than MS Windows with a taskbar.

There's a substitute app bar that works very much like Windows if that is your thing.
You could add a panel at the bottom if you wanted, and add the "Advanced Mate Menu" and "Window List" widgets to it.
I guess I could create the ability to turn off the launching of the dock entirely in settings to enable people to use that instead.
FIXTODO

Then again, it would take some testing, but it is not inconceivable to create an option that would allow the user to select their launching mechanism, as either a taskbar or dock. It kinda negates the look I was going for in COS, and it wouldn't be the default, but I can see how people might find that useful coming from Windows, and there's probably going to be a lot of switching to linux happening around the next version of Windows.

@mandrake
I will take a look at k3b. Thanks.

Hallos,

Can the stop music button on top be a toggle to start music aswell and randomize those C64 tunes that
were played during install or make nother button for that? I kinda liked that...
I know am weird like that

Caved