Re: WPSWizard, an icon theme and problems

Pete,

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:16:28 +0000, Peter Brown wrote:

>Part1 of the install ended with a WPS reset then Part2 ran without any 
>error messages. The Properties notebook for createfd.cmd appeared 
>onscreen for whatever reason though...
>
>Desktop text stayed the colour I had set it (Red) - Until after the 
>reboot when it turned Black.
>
>I opened the WPSWizard Desktop folder and several folders within that 
>folder. The system locked and required using WatchCat to force a reboot.
>
>Having rebooted I find that the system has minor bouts of
"pausing"; it 
>seems like it has locked but after about 10 to 20 seconds comes back to 
>life. This "pausing" is very infrequent with no obvious cause at
the 
>moment - did not happen before installing WPSWizard though.
>
>I used the Desktop Properties to change the text colour back (from 
>Black) to Red - of interest here is that when WPSWzard reset the Desktop 
>text colour to Black that setting was not reflected in the Desktop 
>Properties notebook which still showed Red! It was necessary to change 
>from Red to another colour and then reset to Red before the Black 
>Desktop text would go away.
>
>
>As I am only just starting to investigate the capabilities of this 
>package I have to ask a question about the Command lines context menu 
>option:
>Why is it that the menu offers Command lines when using RMB on a folder, 
>on the Desktop and on the Drives (folder) object but not when on a drive 
>object? - I think that is a bad omission. Any chance of changing that in 
>a later version?
>
>I just tried to Move the WPSWizard folder from the Desktop to a 
>subfolder Desktop\Programs\Installed Software and the system issued an 
>error message "SYS0251: The move or rename operation is not
allowed." I 
>guess the folder location is hardcoded to the Desktop?
>
>
>After about 2 hours of using the system with WPSWizard installed and 
>only 1 obvious "pause" I decided to install a theme. I downloaded

>wps-wizard-icons-darkglass-skyblue-v1_3 and unzipped to 
>\wpswizard\dark-glass-skyblue directory and ran the set-icon-theme.cmd 
>script. After a WPS reset the scheme was active and looked good.
>
>Sadly, installing an icon theme seems to have upset something because 
>when I opened the WPSWizard directory the system did a WPS reset and 
>lost sound.
>
>I rebooted and tried the above again: WPS reset and sound now missing. 
>Also of interest was that it now became impossible to use the system. 
>Any attempt to open a folder or run an app resulted in an error about 
>not enough memory - on a system with 1 GB RAM. Maybe this is a Resource 
>error rather than a lack of memory?
>
>Ok, time to sack the theme; Easier said than done!
>
>I ran the uninstall-icon-theme.cmd in the WPSWizard directory and 
>followed that with a reboot.
>
>When the Desktop should have appeared I got the dreaded message that 
>goes something like this: "Could not find the Desktop in the User ini
file".
>
>

  I had a similar experience the first time I tried WPSWizard. I ended up
un-installing it and XWP, then scrubbed my INI files with cleanini and
checkini multiple times, then re-installed first WPSWizard, then XWP and
everything has been fine since (don't know if the order matters or not...).

  I have to say I don't think I could ever go back to old icons....

Dave McKenna

Peter Brown wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Following a suggestion elsewhere in these ngs I installed the later 
> cairo 1.4.14 package.
> 
> With the WPSWizard V0.6.0 unzipped I updated wpswizz.dll and wpswizz.sym 
> with the 6.1.a1 files and then ran the install.cmd
> 
> Part1 of the install ended with a WPS reset then Part2 ran without any 
> error messages. The Properties notebook for createfd.cmd appeared 
> onscreen for whatever reason though...
> 
> Desktop text stayed the colour I had set it (Red) - Until after the 
> reboot when it turned Black.
> 
> I opened the WPSWizard Desktop folder and several folders within that 
> folder. The system locked and required using WatchCat to force a reboot.
> 
> Having rebooted I find that the system has minor bouts of
"pausing"; it 
> seems like it has locked but after about 10 to 20 seconds comes back to 
> life. This "pausing" is very infrequent with no obvious cause at
the 
> moment - did not happen before installing WPSWizard though.
> 
> I used the Desktop Properties to change the text colour back (from 
> Black) to Red - of interest here is that when WPSWzard reset the Desktop 
> text colour to Black that setting was not reflected in the Desktop 
> Properties notebook which still showed Red! It was necessary to change 
> from Red to another colour and then reset to Red before the Black 
> Desktop text would go away.
> 
> 
> As I am only just starting to investigate the capabilities of this 
> package I have to ask a question about the Command lines context menu 
> option:
> Why is it that the menu offers Command lines when using RMB on a folder, 
> on the Desktop and on the Drives (folder) object but not when on a drive 
> object? - I think that is a bad omission. Any chance of changing that in 
> a later version?
> 
> I just tried to Move the WPSWizard folder from the Desktop to a 
> subfolder Desktop\Programs\Installed Software and the system issued an 
> error message "SYS0251: The move or rename operation is not
allowed." I 
> guess the folder location is hardcoded to the Desktop?
> 
> 
> After about 2 hours of using the system with WPSWizard installed and 
> only 1 obvious "pause" I decided to install a theme. I downloaded

> wps-wizard-icons-darkglass-skyblue-v1_3 and unzipped to 
> \wpswizard\dark-glass-skyblue directory and ran the set-icon-theme.cmd 
> script. After a WPS reset the scheme was active and looked good.
> 
> Sadly, installing an icon theme seems to have upset something because 
> when I opened the WPSWizard directory the system did a WPS reset and 
> lost sound.
> 
> I rebooted and tried the above again: WPS reset and sound now missing. 
> Also of interest was that it now became impossible to use the system. 
> Any attempt to open a folder or run an app resulted in an error about 
> not enough memory - on a system with 1 GB RAM. Maybe this is a Resource 
> error rather than a lack of memory?
> 
> Ok, time to sack the theme; Easier said than done!
> 
> I ran the uninstall-icon-theme.cmd in the WPSWizard directory and 
> followed that with a reboot.
> 
> When the Desktop should have appeared I got the dreaded message that 
> goes something like this: "Could not find the Desktop in the User ini

> file".
> 
> 
> Yes, I did have current backups of both ini files.
> 
> No, I will not be reinstalling the current WPSWizard. There is obviously 
> something not quite right with that software when installed on my system.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pete

Hi Pete

I hate to hear it does not work for you.  If my system did like yours, I 
  would never have been able to create my first icon theme.  Since I 
manually edit the theme's ini file when I create each theme, I restart 
my desktop many times without any system problems.  One thing I have 
noticed is that the WPS can only be restarted so many times before the 
system hangs.  It is in the neighborhood of 8 to 10 times.

What I can't figure out is why you lose your sound.  If I understood 
Chris correctly, WPS adds an entry to the OS/2 ini which points to the 
locations of the WPSWizard theme ini file.  Thus another way to made the 
system default to the systems itheme is to move the present theme to a 
different location.  Once moved, the pointer can't find the theme ini 
file and defaults to the itheme icon theme installed.

I tried moving the WPS Wizard directory to my programs folder.  One of 
my programs kept starting.  What I found was that the moved program 
object must have plenty of white space to move it too.  Once I expanded 
the window and gave the moved object plenty of white space to move it 
to, it moved without a problem and the system continued to operate as it 
should.

There must be something about your system WPS Wizard does not like.  I 
have it working on eCS 2 RC2 on one partition and eCS 2 RC4 on another.

David McKenna wrote:

>   I had a similar experience the first time I tried WPSWizard. I ended up
> un-installing it and XWP, then scrubbed my INI files with cleanini and
> checkini multiple times, then re-installed first WPSWizard, then XWP and
> everything has been fine since (don't know if the order matters or
not...).
> 
>   I have to say I don't think I could ever go back to old icons....
> 
> Dave McKenna
> 
> 

Hi Dave

Have you had a chance to try all the themes?  What are your favorites. 
I like the dark-glass lime on one partition and use the new snowish kde 
brown theme on another.  But if the truth be told, I like them all.  If 
I get tired of the same old theme, I switch to another.  And yes, I 
agree with you.  There is no going back for me to using the old ithemes, 
even with the nice one I created not too long ago.  I think what is 
good, people now have many options on how they want to set up their 
desktops.

Hi All

Following a suggestion elsewhere in these ngs I installed the later 
cairo 1.4.14 package.

With the WPSWizard V0.6.0 unzipped I updated wpswizz.dll and wpswizz.sym 
with the 6.1.a1 files and then ran the install.cmd

Part1 of the install ended with a WPS reset then Part2 ran without any 
error messages. The Properties notebook for createfd.cmd appeared 
onscreen for whatever reason though...

Desktop text stayed the colour I had set it (Red) - Until after the 
reboot when it turned Black.

I opened the WPSWizard Desktop folder and several folders within that 
folder. The system locked and required using WatchCat to force a reboot.

Having rebooted I find that the system has minor bouts of "pausing";
it 
seems like it has locked but after about 10 to 20 seconds comes back to 
life. This "pausing" is very infrequent with no obvious cause at the 
moment - did not happen before installing WPSWizard though.

I used the Desktop Properties to change the text colour back (from 
Black) to Red - of interest here is that when WPSWzard reset the Desktop 
text colour to Black that setting was not reflected in the Desktop 
Properties notebook which still showed Red! It was necessary to change 
from Red to another colour and then reset to Red before the Black 
Desktop text would go away.


As I am only just starting to investigate the capabilities of this 
package I have to ask a question about the Command lines context menu 
option:
Why is it that the menu offers Command lines when using RMB on a folder, 
on the Desktop and on the Drives (folder) object but not when on a drive 
object? - I think that is a bad omission. Any chance of changing that in 
a later version?

I just tried to Move the WPSWizard folder from the Desktop to a 
subfolder Desktop\Programs\Installed Software and the system issued an 
error message "SYS0251: The move or rename operation is not allowed."
I 
guess the folder location is hardcoded to the Desktop?


After about 2 hours of using the system with WPSWizard installed and 
only 1 obvious "pause" I decided to install a theme. I downloaded 
wps-wizard-icons-darkglass-skyblue-v1_3 and unzipped to 
\wpswizard\dark-glass-skyblue directory and ran the set-icon-theme.cmd 
script. After a WPS reset the scheme was active and looked good.

Sadly, installing an icon theme seems to have upset something because 
when I opened the WPSWizard directory the system did a WPS reset and 
lost sound.

I rebooted and tried the above again: WPS reset and sound now missing. 
Also of interest was that it now became impossible to use the system. 
Any attempt to open a folder or run an app resulted in an error about 
not enough memory - on a system with 1 GB RAM. Maybe this is a Resource 
error rather than a lack of memory?

Ok, time to sack the theme; Easier said than done!

I ran the uninstall-icon-theme.cmd in the WPSWizard directory and 
followed that with a reboot.

When the Desktop should have appeared I got the dreaded message that 
goes something like this: "Could not find the Desktop in the User ini
file".


Yes, I did have current backups of both ini files.

No, I will not be reinstalling the current WPSWizard. There is obviously 
something not quite right with that software when installed on my system.


Regards

Pete

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:37:07 -0600, David Graser wrote:

>
>Hi Dave
>
>Have you had a chance to try all the themes?  What are your favorites. 
>I like the dark-glass lime on one partition and use the new snowish kde 
>brown theme on another.  But if the truth be told, I like them all.  If 
>I get tired of the same old theme, I switch to another.  And yes, I 
>agree with you.  There is no going back for me to using the old ithemes, 
>even with the nice one I created not too long ago.  I think what is 
>good, people now have many options on how they want to set up their 
>desktops.
>

  I have been switching around a lot.... but of the ones you created I like
the snowish-brown and the darkglass-flataqua the best. I tend to like more
pastel shades over more 'neon' ones. I still think my favorite is the
Noia-warm though. Would be nice if it were updated with all of the icons your
sets provide....

  Thanks for all you have done with the icon sets... you make it seem too
easy. I've tried creating some icons myself but it becomes very laborious for
me - guess I just don't have the knack for it.....

Dave McKenna