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DJGM's NS7 Rocks!
by Josh » Sat 22 Mar, 2003 10:13 am
Just tried your NS7 distro. It's very, very, good...Keep up the good work!
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by DJGM » Sat 22 Mar, 2003 11:25 am
Thanks. Did the bundled Home Button add-on install with it ok?
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by DJGM » Sun 23 Mar, 2003 6:07 am
Hmm, that's a bit strange. In all my tests of the new builds, on different
configurations of Windows, including a vanilla installation of NT4.0, that
had no browser other than IE2 pre-installed, the Home Button add-on
that I've bundled with these updated distros, was installed just fine.
configurations of Windows, including a vanilla installation of NT4.0, that
had no browser other than IE2 pre-installed, the Home Button add-on
that I've bundled with these updated distros, was installed just fine.
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by Antony » Sun 23 Mar, 2003 5:06 pm
DJGM-i Distro is good.
However I did not install Home button.
However I did not install Home button.
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by DJGM » Tue 25 Mar, 2003 12:18 am
I've just installed the latest DJGM-i Distro Lite Edition on a fresh vanilla installation
of Windows 95 OSR2, and the Home Button installed properly, just as I expected.
I really can't see how the bundled Home Button add-on would fail to install and/or
work, unless you either installed the new DJGM-i Distro over an existing install-
ation of NS7.x, or an earlier DJGM-i Distro, without first uninstalling the old build.
At the end of the day, it's worthwhile to install the Home Button Add-on as it puts
a home button in the place where IMO it really should be placed by default, on the
navigation bar, instead of unnecesarily taking up space on the personal toolbar!
of Windows 95 OSR2, and the Home Button installed properly, just as I expected.
I really can't see how the bundled Home Button add-on would fail to install and/or
work, unless you either installed the new DJGM-i Distro over an existing install-
ation of NS7.x, or an earlier DJGM-i Distro, without first uninstalling the old build.
At the end of the day, it's worthwhile to install the Home Button Add-on as it puts
a home button in the place where IMO it really should be placed by default, on the
navigation bar, instead of unnecesarily taking up space on the personal toolbar!
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by Antony » Tue 25 Mar, 2003 12:32 am
I have different view... Since I have it in personal toolbar, why do I need a duplicated button in toolbar? And by not having it in main toolbar, I can have wider URL address section.DJGM wrote:At the end of the day, it's worthwhile to install the Home Button Add-on as it puts
a home button in the place where IMO it really should be placed by default, on the
navigation bar, instead of unnecesarily taking up space on the personal toolbar!
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by DJGM » Tue 25 Mar, 2003 1:43 am
It isn't really a duplicate button. When you've installed the home button add-on, you can
go in to the Prefs panel, and uncheck the "Home" checkbox to remove it from the personal
toolbar. As for the URL bar, IMO, that really is more than long enough! If you want to make
room on the navigation bar for the home button, and not reduce the length of the URL bar,
just turn off the "Smart Browsing", feature that provides the pointless "Internet Keywords"
button that links to stuff like stock quotes, get a job, shop online, and other unnecessary,
advertising links. Much better to have a button there that links back to your homepage,
rather than one that just links to a bunch of (IMO) rather irrelevant advertising sites!
go in to the Prefs panel, and uncheck the "Home" checkbox to remove it from the personal
toolbar. As for the URL bar, IMO, that really is more than long enough! If you want to make
room on the navigation bar for the home button, and not reduce the length of the URL bar,
just turn off the "Smart Browsing", feature that provides the pointless "Internet Keywords"
button that links to stuff like stock quotes, get a job, shop online, and other unnecessary,
advertising links. Much better to have a button there that links back to your homepage,
rather than one that just links to a bunch of (IMO) rather irrelevant advertising sites!
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by Antony » Tue 25 Mar, 2003 2:13 am
I know I can "shift up" the Home button from personal toolbar to toolbar, but why bother? Four rounded buttons (back, forward, reload, stop) look good to me.
As for the "Internet Keyword," it is not useless. It is very useful... and there will be an article about "Internet Keyword" and "bookmark keyword" in SillyDog701's Knowledge Base soon (after Mr. Tinkles is back).
As for the "Internet Keyword," it is not useless. It is very useful... and there will be an article about "Internet Keyword" and "bookmark keyword" in SillyDog701's Knowledge Base soon (after Mr. Tinkles is back).
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by DJGM » Sat 29 Mar, 2003 10:36 pm
No, most of the choices on the "Internet Keywords" feature are completely
useless if you live outside the USA. The "Local Information" prompts you
to enter a US zipcode. This is pretty much useless, if you live outside,
and is far from "Local" if you reside in say Europe or Australia!
Similarly, the "Get a job" option is only useful if you're an unemployed
person and living in the USA, but useless for anyone else. Of course, if
it can be easily reconfigured to link to job sites in your own part of the
world, only then would it be a viable option for all. Same goes for the
option for "Local Information". If that cannot be be reconfigured to
reflect your own home country, it's as much use as a chocolate
fireguard to anyone living outside America!
As for the "Shop Online" option, it's usefulness is debatable. It may well
help you find items you want to buy, but you only get links to buy them
from, you guessed it, the US of A! Not much good if for instance, you
wanted to buy someone some flowers via the internet, unless that
person lives in the US themselves, or if any of the online florists
actually have the option to send bouquets and arrangements to
addresses overseas. Which would be kinda silly, as the flowers
would probably be dead before they reach their recipient!
As far as I can see, the only useful options in the "Internet Keywords"
list are, "Get a stock quote" and "Check your email", and even then,
they have only relatively limited usefulness. The "Get a stock quote"
is fine if you have shares in a company floating on the NASDAQ or
the NYSE, or if you're interested in following the share values of
certain companies. The "Check your email" option is only useful
for anyone with a Netscape Webmail account, but then if you're
accessing this particular option with NS7, you can easily check
your Netscape Webmail account via the Mail and Newsgroups
client that came with the browser package. I'd imagine that a
fair few people would have clicked on the "Check your email"
option, expecting to be able to access their Hotmail account,
only to find that it only goes to NS Webmail. After which,
they'd most likely never bother clicking it ever again!
useless if you live outside the USA. The "Local Information" prompts you
to enter a US zipcode. This is pretty much useless, if you live outside,
and is far from "Local" if you reside in say Europe or Australia!
Similarly, the "Get a job" option is only useful if you're an unemployed
person and living in the USA, but useless for anyone else. Of course, if
it can be easily reconfigured to link to job sites in your own part of the
world, only then would it be a viable option for all. Same goes for the
option for "Local Information". If that cannot be be reconfigured to
reflect your own home country, it's as much use as a chocolate
fireguard to anyone living outside America!
As for the "Shop Online" option, it's usefulness is debatable. It may well
help you find items you want to buy, but you only get links to buy them
from, you guessed it, the US of A! Not much good if for instance, you
wanted to buy someone some flowers via the internet, unless that
person lives in the US themselves, or if any of the online florists
actually have the option to send bouquets and arrangements to
addresses overseas. Which would be kinda silly, as the flowers
would probably be dead before they reach their recipient!
As far as I can see, the only useful options in the "Internet Keywords"
list are, "Get a stock quote" and "Check your email", and even then,
they have only relatively limited usefulness. The "Get a stock quote"
is fine if you have shares in a company floating on the NASDAQ or
the NYSE, or if you're interested in following the share values of
certain companies. The "Check your email" option is only useful
for anyone with a Netscape Webmail account, but then if you're
accessing this particular option with NS7, you can easily check
your Netscape Webmail account via the Mail and Newsgroups
client that came with the browser package. I'd imagine that a
fair few people would have clicked on the "Check your email"
option, expecting to be able to access their Hotmail account,
only to find that it only goes to NS Webmail. After which,
they'd most likely never bother clicking it ever again!
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