The Ambient Desktop website www.ambient-desktop.com have been updated.

There is also now a complete version of Ambient 1.43.0 (non-debug) available to download in downloads. This new version comes with a installer script that install all files in their proper locations. There is no filetypes scripts or other scripts included in the archive. If You already is using and have filetypes scripts installed in Your system, they will be kept intact. There is also some contributions available at the website containing filetypes scripts as well as some packages containing images for the toolbar and context menues.

Please note, this is a snapshot of current development in progress, and some functions aren't yet completed or fully functional. It is recommended to use MUI 4 alpha with this version.

The daily builds will from now on be made as complete archives with the installer included. And they will continue to be made as debug versions.

Enjoy !

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Which one of them?

The first one.

takemehomegrandma,

What You might notice is that the Action Editor not is completed yet. It depends on that the person developing this is busy with school-work for the moment.

In all other aspects Ambient is very good and nice to use.

There is a lot of filetypes script as contributions. You just need to edit them You want to use manually to suite your system. Easely made in any text editor.

Have You tried it ?

You do have something to look forward too, if you haven't

[ Edited by gunne on 2006/3/15 17:59 ]

Ambient gets better and better! :)
Thank you for your work!

the Ambient team are all about talented and brilliant coders, their work is amazing, and they go so fast. Thank you for bringing us this amazing piece of software.

i must say, that for me, this is the first really usable release, thanks guys, You are doing great work! keep on

bye, MarK.

Really, this release runs perfectly and is very
usable! Thanks for your great work!

@ Wishmaster

Thanks!


@ gunne

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No I haven't (yet).

I'm just about to whipe my hard drive and do a fresh install, with all the latest OS components, applications, etc, and get rid of a lot of junk that's just lying around everywhere.

Hmm, I just realized that I wish all developers would use MorphUP when they publish their software!

takemehomegrandma,

Try it !

It might be made as archives for MorphUP later on.

all,

I would like to take up another thought here. Sorry for being little bit of topic.

Right now archives is made as tar.gz. I feel this is very good to use for MorphOS.

As I understand also MorphUP can handle archives up to DOS-limit (filesize 2GB)

lha (or any other Amiga-format) has it disadvantages. Two things that comes to my mind:

# They need to read in all data in memory before writing to disk.

# They cant archive soft-links properly.

Btw, Daily builds is now on made as nightly builds, with additional information in the screen title bar.

Only two things:

+Ambient ROCKS! Keep up the good work, and THANK YOU!
+ Gunne_the_bringer_of_great_news_and_snapshots for president!

Wow, what a brilliant release. But is it a known bug that usb
msd devices possessing an own icon (disk.info) are not shown at the
Ambient desktop while they are under "My MorphOS"?

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Yes it's a known bug, not easy to fix actually. It's not related to devices having icons or not, it can happen in any case.
It's a long-time standing bug, which was made visible with the introduction of my morphos.




[ Edited by Fab on 2006/3/21 0:36 ]

Ah - thought it was dependant whether there was a file 'disk.info'
present or not. Hadn't probed it, but one device showed up, another
didn't (which had a nice custom drive icon).

Anyway, that bug is really of minor impact...

@Gunne

Where does one report bugs to ? sf.net bugtracker ?

I'm using the daily builds but can imagine it would get very annoying, very quickly if I report things that aren't completed etc.

Hi guys. Yessum, some new features in this new snapshot, and so far I have only found one bug - sometimes when you move icons the system will lock up completely, but only sometimes.

Just one question if someone wouls be kind enough to help... How do I access the browser icons in Ambient Settings? The only buttons available all look the same (bar 2) - blue spheres. Even when I download browser button gfx and install them in SYS:Mossys/Ambient/images they still do not show up in Ambient Settings.

I am probably doing something stupid, so please dont be shy pointing it out. :)

Thanks again for any help offerred.

koan,

Yes, you can report to the bugtracker, or there is also a public mailinglist You can join.

Everything is to find on: www.ambient-desktop.com

Where are the scripts and other contributions located on the site?

Acill,

- http://daily.ambient-desktop.com - or - http://daily.ambient-desktop.org - or - http://daily.ambient-desktop.net - Choose which one You prefer.

There is also other sub-domains you can use if You would like to:

Bugtracker: - http://bugs.ambient-desktop.com - or - http://bugs.ambient-desktop.org - or - http://bugs.ambient-desktop.net

CIA: - http://cia.ambient-desktop.com - or - http://cia.ambient-desktop.org - or - http://cia.ambient-desktop.net

Download: - http://download.ambient-desktop.com - or - http://download.ambient-desktop.org - or - http://download.ambient-desktop.net

Mailinglist: - http://mail.ambient-desktop.com - or - http://mail.ambient-desktop.org - or - http://mail.ambient-desktop.net

Sourceforge Projectpage: - http://project.ambient-desktop.com - or - http://project.ambient-desktop.org - or - http://project.ambient-desktop.net