18.03.00 – 24.03.00
Well things have been a bit slow going this week. No big
hassles or fights, kinda nice. One thing I would like to bring up
though creation of web sites with multiple people involved. Usually,
the reason all these people are working on the same project is for
very basic reasons such as enjoyment and love of the project. They
are not getting paid to do this. Many of them have jobs and do the
work in there spare time. With this said, I can understand wanting
to have organization within the site and it’s people but trying to
run the site as if its a company will lead to nothing but a failed
site. Why? Because it is NOT a company but a group of people
working towards a common goal for fun and enjoyment. If you are either
running a site or considering running one with some people keep in
mind that the people you are working with do this for nothing. Telling
them what to do, imposing strict rules and regulations, and other
company like actions will do nothing but destroy the project. I have
seen it happen alot. Take my words lightly if you want but I promise
you, what ever site you are working on will not be around long if
you run it like that.
- demigod
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TOP NEWS STORIES
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- New Dev Team Member dissipate (12:49pm 20.03)
Saw this little tid bit on fpn. Seems as if dissipate has
been added to the dev team to do the docs. Let’s hope he
can make something out of nothing.
url – http://lsdev.litestep.net
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net)
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- Dissipate Wants To Know (9:58am 21.03)
Found this cruising by the lsdev site:
“As you might have noticed, the base Litestep distribution is
lacking a solid set of docs. To finally get the documentation
for Litestep up to par, I’d like to ask for suggestions on
the documentation. What do you want to see in them? What
format? (Windows Help, HTML, online?) Let me know what you
want.”
e-mail – dissipate@subdue.com
url – http://lsdev.litestep.net/
(source: http://lsdev.litestep.net/
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MODULES
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- LsTransparent 1.0.0.9 ~ Carluchi (9:33am 20.03)
- Fixed problems with the 2.4.5 class of builds not doing
anything
- Fixed problem where nothing would happen if you only made
1 module Transparent
url – http://floach.pimpin.net
e-mail – carluchi@stratos.net
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net)
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- MidPop 1.6 ~ Spectra9 (9:36am 20.03)
- Much better Win2k support
- Remove Win2kAlternate option since it’s no longer needed.
Popup can now be pinned as usual.
- Some documentation fix :-(
url – http://floach.pimpin.net
e-mail – illusion@cryogen.com
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net)
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- grdTray 2.0 b3 ~ Gustav Munkby (10:50am 13.03)
- grdTray can now load icons saved from systray during
recycle, so it’s easier to switch to grdTray
- changed the effect routine slightly to improve speed
- corrected some bugs to get rid of the “known issues”
url – http://home.swipnet.se/grd/ls/
e-mail – grd@swipnet.se
(source: LS Mailing List ~ grdTray again… tweaking into …)
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- 0irc v1.0.10 r4 ~ murphy (10:42am 21.03)
“I’ve released the new version of 0irc, the small irc-client.
it is now an exe (standalone) and a dll (for litestep). the
litestep module can be load as desktop module. this is the
first irc-client that runs as a desktop module in litestep.”
“here are the news for the new version:”
+ dll: added litestep desktop module
+ dll: added full step.rc configuration including some
skinning options
+ dll: added 5 bangcommands: !0ircHide, !0ircShow,
!0ircToggle, !0ircFocus, !0ircCommand
+ exe/dll: added functional fingerclient
+ exe/dll: added /log for logging of chat
+ exe/dll: added /F and /w one shot commands
+ exe/dll: added hottracking to buttons
+ added more documentation :-)
url – http://www.dev0.de
e-mail – murphy@dev0.de
(source: LS Mailing List ~ 0irc v1.0.10 litestep module)
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- LSNews 2.3 ~ MrJukes (9:07am 23.03)
- Added Bang Commands:
!LSNewsShow
!LSNewsHide
!LSNewsToggle
!LSNewsUpdate
!LSNewsNextSite
!LSNewsPrevSite
!LSNewsFocus
!LSNewsStartScrolling
!LSNewsStopScrolling
- New step.rc commands:
LSNewsBackColor 000000
: Sets a background color. No transparency if you
use this.
LSNewsLinkColor RRGGBB
: Sets the color of the links
LSNewsLinkSize 8
: Sets the font size of the links
LSNewsLinkUnderline
: If this is set LSNews will underline links.
: Otherwise they are not underlined.
LSNewsAutoScroll
: Makes LSNews automatically scroll the text
LSNewsScrollSpeed 500
: The number of milliseconds between scrolls
LSNewsAutoSwitch
: If this is set LSNews will switch to the next
: news site when it is done scrolling.
: Otherwise it will keep scrolling the same site
url – http://floach.pimpin.net/modules
e-mail – mrjukes_at_purdue_dot_edu
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net)
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- lsxcommand ~ Visigoth (9:11am 24.03)
- Fixed CommandNoWarnOnError bug
- Fixed locality stuff (for international users)
url – http://floach.pimpin.net/visigoth/
e-mail – gandhimail@worldnet.att.net
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net)
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THEMES
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- my mondrian ~ odt (10:53am 21.03)
“A clean and easy to learn theme. Comprehensive documentation.
(no i didn’t released the theme, just because to write long
docs =). Has many features. Download if you want to see it
yourself. No modules included, but read the step.rc to see
which are needed. All are the latest versions. Best used with
a daily build.
“Based on the concept of neoplasticist theories developed
in the beginning of the 20th century by the famous Dutch
artist Piet Mondrian.”
url – http://www.litestep.net
ss – http://www.litestep.net/themes/ss/mm_desktop.gif
e-mail – odt@hot.ee
(source: http://www.litestep.net)
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MISC
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- New Scorpion IE Throbbers ~ Eric418 (9:18am 24.03)
Looks like someone else stepped up and made some nifty
neeto IE throbbers. If you into customizing everything
possible on your system, get these.
url – http://4w1r8.virtualave.net/creation/misc/
e-mail – 4w1r8@i.am
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net)
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Tips
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- For beginner themers. When zipping up your theme, try to keep
the folder info intact. I have seen quite a few themes that just
dump the entire contents of the zip into one dir. For new users,
make you have Use Folder Name check off in Winzip or recurse
folders flagged in dos programs.
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Retro
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- Still no submissions, I wonder who actually reads this?
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Latest Builds
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- Official – b24.5 build 031300
Modified [lsapi, workspace, popup / Message / 03-12-2000]
o Fixed lsapi crashing with an undeclared variable
(envvar was being set to NULL, and then was being
added to the map)
o Removed lsutil from the desktop2 dependencies (per
noodge)
o Added MessageBox warning if lsapi finds an
unitialized variable, will tell the variable, and
the line
o Fixed !popupdynamicfolder not displaying folders
more than 3 levels deep
o Fixed !popupdynamicfolder using the combined paths
when executing
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