If you would like to unsubscribe from LSWeekly at any time, simply "Reply" to this message with the word "Unsubscribe" in the subject line, your e-mail address in the body, and I will remove you from the list. Stop by http://chunkymunky.com/lsweekly for past issues and other LSWeekly specific related news. Got some news? Wanna see it in LSWeekly? Well, shoot me a mail at demigod@meganet.net with the subject LSWeekly-News and I'll post it in the letter. Got a complaint? Got a compliment? Got an idea? I'm open to all rants and raves. Send me a mail at demigod@meganet.net, any subject, and tell me what you think. LSWEEKLY LiteStep Related News 18.09.99 - 24.09.99 ---------------------------------------------------- Sorry for the small size of the letter this week, but aside from some decent core updates, not much has been happening. With that said, on to the rant of the week. On the list a debate was going on about having to register WB. This then lead to having to pay for shareware programs and the like. This is a pretty silly debate if you ask me. If you use the product, like the product, if it's well coded, not bloated, and a reasonable price, shell out the money. On the other hand, if it's a piece of crap, don't bother. For programs such as WB, I have a hard time wanting to shell out cash for it. It isn't really that useful of a program. Yes, it works fine, makes my desktop look just a bit prettier but other than that it's not very useful. Now, I don't want to get into a fight here about how much time and effort went into making the product. I understand that aspect of shareware. Sure, they have slaved over it to make it better and better. Thats why they feel they deserve to get paid for it. Take what I say here with a gain of salt but, $20 for a program, even if I think it's not useful to me, is still worth it. - demigod --------------------------- TOP NEWS STORIES --------------------------- - Fahim's DevJournal Goodies (11:38pm 23.09) "Behind the scenes... Fahim has a new entry posted at The Developer's Journal about progress on his new shell. He's achieved a compilable shell executable and core dll's (hook, bangs, api and lsapi wrapper), but along the way theme.rc support had to be sacrificed due to incompatibilities between the disk-based config system he plans to use, and the memory-based system that LS uses." url - http://members.tripod.com/~Cyberian/LiteStep/LSDJ.htm (source: tinomen.chunkymunky.com) --------------------------- MODULES --------------------------- - Rainminder 0.3 ~ rainy (8:35pm 23.09) "rainy has released Rainminder 0.3 beta. Here are the changes for this version: - Added Bang([BangCommand], [Args]) action function which executes a LS bang command. - Added Quickalarms (used with !RainminderQuickAlarm [MINS] and QuickAlarm()). - Fixed a bug in Date() evaluation - Fixed a bug with the wharf clock transparency - Added RMPixmapPath step.rc-command url - http://www.students.tut.fi/%7Erainy/products.html e-mail - rainy@iki.fi (source: chunkymunky.com/modulo) +---------------+ - Recycler 3.0.1 ~ Joachim Calvert (12:38am 19.09) "The new version incorporate many new features and is now fully customizable. "For those of you who don't know what it is, it's a plug in which gives you full access to your recycle bin, with full support for drag'n'drop, and also tells you if there are files in the 'bin or not. "Thanks to its new Mixed Mode Module (MMM) design, you can now use it either in the old-fashioned way in a wharf tile, or load it directly on your desktop, with whatever dimensions and bitmaps you like! "It now has (almost) full support for transparency, and if you tell it not to stay on top, it integrates seamlessly on your desktop, adapting to your current background even when using the VWMDeskWallPaper# settings. "The supported BangCommands(TM) are !RecyclerEmpty, !RecyclerOpen and !RecyclerToggle, which allows you to toggle its hidden state." %%UPDATE%% (11:21am 22.09) "Due to some mess up on my part the last release wouldn't work on NT, there was also a problem with the state of the Recycler not updating correctly, esp. on systems with Win98. "These problems have now been fixed, so if you downloaded version 3.0.0 and it did not work as expected, please try the new release." url - http://hem.passagen.se/jcalvert/software/ e-mail - jcalvert@hem.passagen.se (source: LS Mailing List ~ Recycler 3.0.0 is released!) --------------------------- THEMES --------------------------- - candyKorn ~ KuhndoG (4:33am 24.09) "Something different for a change, lots of well placed mods for a full functional desktop. 5 vertical warfs, winamp/cd controls, vertical vwm, and tons more.. have fun.." url - chunkymunky.com/lsunlimited (source: LS Mailing List ~ candyKorn uploaded) --------------------------- WEB SITES --------------------------- - Official #litestep Site (5:28pm 18.09) It's official! EFNet's greatest channel, #litestep, has a web site. Listing all the players, pictures, information about Litestep, and #litestep statistics. If you're a regular to #litestep, send you nick, email address, homepage (and homepage name), a picture, and the city/state/country you live in to eleet@netzero.com so you'll be listed, if not so already. All of the information is option, except nick, of course. url - http://www.chunkymunky.com/hosted/poundls/ (source: chunkymunky.com) +---------------+ - LiteStep UNLiMiTED permanent URL (1:13am 20.09) Ok folks, thanks to people from Chunkymunky LiteStep UNLiMiTED now has permanent URL - http://www.chunkymunky.com/lsunlimited. So wherever I move next (although I hope that will not happen) url will always be the same. There's also lsunlimited.cjb.net and lsunlimited.da.ru. Enjoy. url - chunkymunky.com/lsunlimited e-mail - kuhndog@linuxfreak.com (source: chunkymunky.com) --------------------------- PROGRAMS --------------------------- - LiteStep Tweaker 1.50 ~ Epsylon3 (2:43am 21.09) LiteStep Tweaker, a gui litestep config app, has been updated to version 1.49. New in this version: - Hotkey Editor (bug with !bangs and spaces) url - http://tweak.cjb.net e-mail - Epsylon3@ifrance.com (source: chunkymunky.com) +---------------+ - LSSplash 1.1 ~ GeekMaster (1:16am 23.09) "GeekMaster has released (wait a minute, why the hell am I posting this?!@# I!.... ah, nevermind ;) LSSplash 1.1, a cool new program that will let you run a splash screen at startup, ala LiteStep b23 and before (ahh, the good ole days... ;)" url - floach.pimpin.net/utils e-mail - lheddings@geocities.com (source: floach.pimpin.net) .................................... ---- Tips ---- - Just because LS is a sported as a shell replacement doesn't mean that you can't run it as a shell enhancement. Boot into windows as normal and add litestep.exe to your startup group. Add ExplorerNoWarn into your step.rc and you can now have the explorer shell and use litestep as an enhancement program. - Bind !Recycle to as many things dll's as you can. Hotkey, Popup, Shortcut, etc. This way, if one of these dll's fails to load, you will have the ability to fix the problem and still recycle ls instead of having to reboot or kill ls. .................................... ----- Retro ----- Mandel v1 ~ Fredrik Johnsson - CAPO (Sept 14, 1998) This is the only time I have ever seen this mod. I have scoured sites looking to see if anyone else has it and it seems not. From the readme: "Dedicateed to Benoit Mandelbrot, who explored the limits of infinity. "Mandel is a module that will produce and show a classic mandelbrot. The mandelbrot is stopped after 72 iterations, not to big to suck out CPU-power. It's the first module I have ever produced so its not very reliable, complicated or useful :) It has absolutely zero user configurability and it will probably not be followed by a second edition." download: chunkymunky.com/lsweekly/retro/mandel_v1.zip .................................... ------------- Latest Builds ------------- - Official - b24.5 build 230999 Changes - Fixed shortcut groups.. shortcut.dll should now be fully working & compact. with Easycuts (Ender) - Preview - b24.5 230999 Changes - all features of cvs-build 1999/09/23. - with bitmap-importfilter in lsapi.dll - key support for TAB, PAUSE and APPS key - popup-icons can be placed with POPUPTEXTOFFSET from edge - fixed cursormovement in popup. the submenus don't open automatically when moved with cursors. with mouse the will, but you need to press the left mousebutton, when using key before. - return/enter opens now the subfolders correctly - NO !HELP command. if anybody wants it and finds it useful, write me a mail. .................................... ------------- Mailing Lists ------------- - LiteStep To subscribe, e-mail: litestep-subscribe@litestep.ru.ac.za To unsubscribe, e-mail: litestep-unsubscribe@litestep.ru.ac.za Additional commands, e-mail: litestep-help@litestep.ru.ac.za - Offtopic Post message: offtopic@onelist.com Subscribe: offtopic-subscribe@onelist.com Unsubscribe: offtopic-unsubscribe@onelist.com List owner: offtopic-owner@onelist.com .................................... ----------- News Groups ----------- - Server news.emci.com litestep.installation.help litestep.steprc.help litestep.modulesini.help litestep.graphics.help litestep.themes.design litestep.themesrc.help litestep.core.suggestions litestep.general.coding litestep.general.questions