World: r3wp

I think I can live with that actually, as long as Aero doesn't port 
it's way over to Debian, I'll be ok.  :)

They're already doing it. What do you think Compiz and such are?

All of that 3D fluff is just as silly on Linux as it is on Windows.

I was just going to add, I wonder if Windows could handle Beryl. 
 :)

Agreed.  Until we get laser beam to the eye HUDs, yep.  Fluff.

Wake me when there is some real point to turning on the WinXP/2003 
Themes service, let alone Aero.

lol

I wouldn't use Themes at all it I didn't dislike grey so much.

lol - oh man ya got me twice ... people sleeping up stairs.  :)

Don't like blue either, so KDE doesn't appeal that much :)

I'm hoping the black in KDE 4 will be better.

Of course this is why I have other people mock up my GUIs, like in 
DevBase - my taste isn't common.

Love the KDE blue ... but to be honest, prefer a white background, 
black text and a CLI

White background, black text can strain your eyes after a while - 
I often prefer the opposite. I like the CLI though.

I grew up on Amber and Green screens.   Take that eyeballs.  :)  
 Especially when you have a couple of each colour (we had four or 
five tubes each ... windowing at it's finest).

btiffin - thanks for pointing me out to runlevel articles. I simply 
expected something as easy as autoexec.bat or startup-sequence :-)

Has anyone much experience with using Wine?  I'm running my application 
under wine and all the decimals are being displayed in scientific 
notation.  So, instead of seeing 14.5, I see 1.4500000 x10^1 etc.

REBOL is using a windows function for decimal to ascii conversion 
that wine implements incorrectly.

there is no workaround other than using your own form function for 
decimals.

In R3 it should be fixed, if I'm not wrong.

Hi guys, I've tested today latest REBOL View on a Eee PC with the 
default Xandros OS, it works flawlessly so far, except for the usual 
small glitches with some default fonts.

Petr;  For you, anything, anytime.  :)

Gabriele .. thanks.  Anyone got a form function for decimals??

Doc, I played with an Eee PC .. didn't realize it was Xandros.

Graham, I'd guess, you can find one at the Library.

graham, Gabriele made form-decimal once.

There's a Xubuntu distribution for the Eee.

I think there's also a printf somewhere

http://www.compkarori.com/vanilla/display/form-decimal.r

That's Gabriele's

I'm relatively new to Linux in general, so this may be a simple question: 
When running REBOL in the terminal, how can I enable the <HOME>, 
<END>, and <DEL> keys? Right now they just print out "OH," "OF," 
and "[3~," respectively. I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper with Gnome.

James, I guess, you're interested in the keys in View. This will 
tell you the actual key in view:


view layout [b: box red feel [engage: func [face action event] [probe 
reduce ["box" action event/key]]] do [focus b]]


Run the code, activate the view window and press the keys. You can 
see the key values in the terminal.

Here under OS X, <Home> returns #"^A", so I can do this to use it:


view layout [key with [keycode: #"^A"] [alert "Home was pressed"]]

I think he means using the keys directly in the console, which correctly 
is limited in Linux.

Ah, of course! :P :)

Yes, I was referring to running REBOL Core or View in the Linux console. 
Sorry for the confusion. Thanks though, Geomol!

Unforunately form-decimal also has problems under wine.

Instead of "64.1" I get "64.100000000000E+00"

Perhaps you should tell the wind developers; that should not be hard 
for them to fix.

It's been reported ... people have suggested patches ...  no luck 
yet on ecvt.  fcvt got  a patch with 0.9.46 but afaik ecvt is still 
hurtin'

Graham, I modified one old form-decimal i had around to work with 
the wine bug; i just needed to test one of my old programs on wine, 
so it's not bullet proof, but it seems to work here. i will paste 
it to you, but you basically just need to parse the output of form 
and make it correct, it's easier than what it seems.

Thanks .. I'll give it a go.

Seems to work ... :)

I just happened to refine my form-money yesterday:

form-money: func [
	m
	/local r
][
	if money? m [m: m/2]
	r: (to-integer (absolute m) * 100 + 0.5) // 100
	rejoin [
		either negative? m ["-"] [""]
		absolute to-integer m
		","
		either r < 10 ["0"] [""]
		r
	]
]

It's geared towards Dutch money, with two decimal positions and a 
decimal comma, but that's easy to adapt

I've been using puppylinux recently.  I notice that from the desktop, 
if I click on console, nothing happens.  Also, if I do a print from 
an encapped application, no console appears.  Ideas?

If you start from a terminal session and use $ rebol    ( or whatever 
command)  and then hit the console, does the REBOL banner show up 
in the terminal?  That's where it should be.  No seperate "windows" 
console required for GNU/Linux.  If there is no banner, then puppylinux 
may be pooched.

maybe I should try starting from console rather then by gui

Yeah, try that, see what happens.  Then the real head scratching 
can start.  :)