Re: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7
Hi Michael, On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 14:16, Michael Kairys kai...@comcast.net wrote: ... it looks like a mix of the Vista and XP Blue themes. Thanks for the hint, Kim; I tried a complete reinstall, applying the win7 theme patch before instancing the search bar, and now at least I have consistent results on both machines. The bar doesn't match my taskbar color but at least it is homogenous (see attached). you probably need to dive into the CSS and adapt them to go better with the system look. What puzzles me is that other people (e.g. James Nix on Win 7 64-bit) seem to get a transparent search bar that lets their Win 7 theme colors show through. I seem to recall the themes were designed not to be transparent, but to have the same color as the various themes (there's one Olive, one Silver and one XP blue, for example). Maybe James system color happens to match the DQSD theme color? I could perhaps tweak the search bar color to match the taskbar color but (1) the taskbar is sort of a gradient fill rather than a uniform color, (2) if I changed my windows theme of course the search bar would no longer match, and (3) I haven't found, in my various poking, how to do that! Again, I don't know enough CSS to style my way out of a double-door, so I don't think I can help :) - Kim -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
Re: [DQSD-Users] IMdB issue
OK Kim, I did install the 4.1 beta and of course it works. The "notes" even mention "fixing" imdb or words to that effect. I always stayed away from v4.1 because it talked about 64b support but never mentioned continued 32b support. I'm just naive enough think it takes two programs - one 32b, one 64b - which I have discovered is not true. I am not a software guru, for sure. I still have the erroneous result from "check for update ..." but that is a "don't care" - just a curiosity. Thanks again for your help along the way. I find dqsd to be a fantastic program and would be "lost" without it as I prove every time I go to friends computer. George Kim Grsman wrote: Hi George, On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 20:47, George Hitz h...@hitz.org wrote: Kim, I did the UNinstall and ALL the files in /searches disappeared. I then downloaded and installed dqsd.exe v4.0.0.6 from the dqsd.net website. The same (old) imdb.xml is in that bundle and does what it says to do, but isn't the right "search" which as we know, should yield a specically called out movie. Right you are -- I double-checked the details, and the imdb fix went in just after the release of 4.0.0.6. You could get the 4.1.0.0 beta, which contains a working imdb search. Hopefully we can find some time to get out a proper 4.1 release, the beta has been dangling forever. - Kim -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
Re: [DQSD-Users] dqsd.net webmaster?
Hi all, I think we should just have dqsd.sourceforge.net as the main page - we can see if Dave will redirect dqsd.net back to dqsd.sourceforge.net. I changed the home page to dqsd.sourceforge.net, uploaded the files in dqsdweb to the htdocs for dqsd project and it seems to work. Note, I have not tried every page and every link - also you'll have to clear your browser cache as the old index page on the dqsd htdocs site redirects to dqsd.net I can easily change it back to the way it was but that way wasn't working and I like the idea of having the dsqdweb files hosted on sourceforge so that all the admins can mess with it and avoid the problems we're currently experiencing. Your thoughts? Brent From: Kim Gräsman kim.gras...@gmail.com To: tom.corco...@moonbade.com; DQSD users mailing list dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tue, March 2, 2010 3:14:56 AM Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] dqsd.net webmaster? Hi Tom, I think the most pressing concern is that we seem to have lost control of dqsd.net -- updates aren't bubbling through as they should, and we don't know who has access to the host. - There is a wiki (now defunct, apparently, I can't get to the pages) for developers at SourceForge. Would a user-facing wiki be valuable? - Feature requests can be made at SourceForge. I agree it's not as appealing as the link you posted. My life is busy with two small children, and I don't have all that much time to develop DQSD, but I'd love to see it grow, too. :) If we could get the infrastructural problems sorted, maybe we could kickstart development again, starting with a proper 4.1 release, and then look into the various issues we have? - Kim On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:36, Tom Corcoran tom.corco...@moonbade.com wrote: I did not need another sign to know DQSD was in trouble but no response to my post shows that. We need to do something to keep dqsd alive, the reality is it's slowly dying even though many of us still use it daily. There are problems which need to be addressed, such as the load time when a new google is done, which is often a lot slower that doing a search in the google bar in the open browser. I still get the startup IE error. Shawn has suggested other things in the past which would improve things: http://bit.ly/shawndqsd and http://bit.ly/shawnxml Some other ideas to continue the brainstorming: - turn dqsd.net into a wiki - add a proposed new feature section (such as linking one search to different a browser, floating toolbar, Logins with authentication code, etc) and let people vote like on http://digsbies.org/site/wishlist - add a blog Lots of people out there work on open source software, dqsd needs more exposure to get more users for that to happen. We can start that by linking up the buzz we already have, e.g. adding links to posts such as David Blume's http://dblume.livejournal.com/65402.html Tom. Original Message Subject: dqsd.net webmaster? Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:22:21 + From: Tom Corcoran tom.corco...@moonbade.com Reply-To: tom.corco...@moonbade.com To: DQSD dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, Does anyone know who runs/has control over dqsd.net? Is the domain still David Bau's? I am wondering as I would like to make a change on the http://www.dqsd.net/contrib/ since a domain of mine listed there has changed and will be expired in less than 30 days. I am not a member of the -devel list so am just emailing this user list. Maybe the access could be opened up and we could update the site? Thanks, Tom. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
Re: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7
Michael, Checking back over the emails. Did you confirm that we (you and I) are using the same DQSD Win7 Theme pack developed my Matt? In Windows 7 on the PersonalizationWindows Color page do ANY of the color or tint a or transparency settings have ANY effect on the color/tint/transparency of the DQSD Search Bar? Jim -Original Message- From: Michael Kairys [mailto:kai...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:33 PM To: 'Kim Gräsman' Cc: 'DQSD users mailing list' Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7 I took a look at theme.css (Win7 version) and saw it uses 7toolbar1.bmp to draw the backgrounds, and that turns out to be a 1-pixel wide column of black pixels with a two-pixel decoration at the top. So I made one like it using my toolbar blue. It looks almost perfect, except you'll note the light top-shadow is one pixel thicker over the search bar than the rest of the toolbar (fig. 1). For some reason DQSD is putting two pixels of light blue where the bmp only has one (fig. 2). Anyway my original question remains... how does this work for anyone whose toolbar isn't black to start? -Original Message- From: Kim Gräsman [mailto:kim.gras...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 4:47 AM To: kai...@comcast.net Cc: DQSD users mailing list Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7 Hi Michael, On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 14:16, Michael Kairys kai...@comcast.net wrote: ... it looks like a mix of the Vista and XP Blue themes. Thanks for the hint, Kim; I tried a complete reinstall, applying the win7 theme patch before instancing the search bar, and now at least I have consistent results on both machines. The bar doesn't match my taskbar color but at least it is homogenous (see attached). you probably need to dive into the CSS and adapt them to go better with the system look. What puzzles me is that other people (e.g. James Nix on Win 7 64-bit) seem to get a transparent search bar that lets their Win 7 theme colors show through. I seem to recall the themes were designed not to be transparent, but to have the same color as the various themes (there's one Olive, one Silver and one XP blue, for example). Maybe James system color happens to match the DQSD theme color? I could perhaps tweak the search bar color to match the taskbar color but (1) the taskbar is sort of a gradient fill rather than a uniform color, (2) if I changed my windows theme of course the search bar would no longer match, and (3) I haven't found, in my various poking, how to do that! Again, I don't know enough CSS to style my way out of a double-door, so I don't think I can help :) - Kim -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
Re: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7
Checking back over the emails. Did you confirm that we (you and I) are using the same DQSD Win7 Theme pack developed my Matt? Yes, in fact you've sent it to me. do ANY of the color or tint a or transparency settings have ANY effect on the color/tint/transparency of the DQSD Search Bar? Nossir. Perhaps someone else with Windows 7 installed can confirm this. That's what I been sayin! :) -Original Message- From: James Nix [mailto:ni...@charter.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:55 PM To: kai...@comcast.net; 'DQSD users mailing list' Subject: RE: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7 Michael, Checking back over the emails. Did you confirm that we (you and I) are using the same DQSD Win7 Theme pack developed my Matt? In Windows 7 on the PersonalizationWindows Color page do ANY of the color or tint a or transparency settings have ANY effect on the color/tint/transparency of the DQSD Search Bar? Jim -Original Message- From: Michael Kairys [mailto:kai...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:33 PM To: 'Kim Gräsman' Cc: 'DQSD users mailing list' Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7 I took a look at theme.css (Win7 version) and saw it uses 7toolbar1.bmp to draw the backgrounds, and that turns out to be a 1-pixel wide column of black pixels with a two-pixel decoration at the top. So I made one like it using my toolbar blue. It looks almost perfect, except you'll note the light top-shadow is one pixel thicker over the search bar than the rest of the toolbar (fig. 1). For some reason DQSD is putting two pixels of light blue where the bmp only has one (fig. 2). Anyway my original question remains... how does this work for anyone whose toolbar isn't black to start? -Original Message- From: Kim Gräsman [mailto:kim.gras...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 4:47 AM To: kai...@comcast.net Cc: DQSD users mailing list Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7 Hi Michael, On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 14:16, Michael Kairys kai...@comcast.net wrote: ... it looks like a mix of the Vista and XP Blue themes. Thanks for the hint, Kim; I tried a complete reinstall, applying the win7 theme patch before instancing the search bar, and now at least I have consistent results on both machines. The bar doesn't match my taskbar color but at least it is homogenous (see attached). you probably need to dive into the CSS and adapt them to go better with the system look. What puzzles me is that other people (e.g. James Nix on Win 7 64-bit) seem to get a transparent search bar that lets their Win 7 theme colors show through. I seem to recall the themes were designed not to be transparent, but to have the same color as the various themes (there's one Olive, one Silver and one XP blue, for example). Maybe James system color happens to match the DQSD theme color? I could perhaps tweak the search bar color to match the taskbar color but (1) the taskbar is sort of a gradient fill rather than a uniform color, (2) if I changed my windows theme of course the search bar would no longer match, and (3) I haven't found, in my various poking, how to do that! Again, I don't know enough CSS to style my way out of a double-door, so I don't think I can help :) - Kim -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
Re: [DQSD-Users] dqsd.net webmaster?
I've copied Dave ( david@gmail.com ) on this. I'm sure he'll be happy to do whatever you guys want to do. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Brent Beardsley brentbeards...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi all, I think we should just have dqsd.sourceforge.net as the main page - we can see if Dave will redirect dqsd.net back to dqsd.sourceforge.net. I changed the home page to dqsd.sourceforge.net, uploaded the files in dqsdweb to the htdocs for dqsd project and it seems to work. Note, I have not tried every page and every link - also you'll have to clear your browser cache as the old index page on the dqsd htdocs site redirects to dqsd.net I can easily change it back to the way it was but that way wasn't working and I like the idea of having the dsqdweb files hosted on sourceforge so that all the admins can mess with it and avoid the problems we're currently experiencing. Your thoughts? Brent -- *From:* Kim Gräsman kim.gras...@gmail.com *To:* tom.corco...@moonbade.com; DQSD users mailing list dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Sent:* Tue, March 2, 2010 3:14:56 AM *Subject:* Re: [DQSD-Users] dqsd.net webmaster? Hi Tom, I think the most pressing concern is that we seem to have lost control of dqsd.net -- updates aren't bubbling through as they should, and we don't know who has access to the host. - There is a wiki (now defunct, apparently, I can't get to the pages) for developers at SourceForge. Would a user-facing wiki be valuable? - Feature requests can be made at SourceForge. I agree it's not as appealing as the link you posted. My life is busy with two small children, and I don't have all that much time to develop DQSD, but I'd love to see it grow, too. :) If we could get the infrastructural problems sorted, maybe we could kickstart development again, starting with a proper 4.1 release, and then look into the various issues we have? - Kim On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:36, Tom Corcoran tom.corco...@moonbade.comwrote: I did not need another sign to know DQSD was in trouble but no response to my post shows that. We need to do something to keep dqsd alive, the reality is it's slowly dying even though many of us still use it daily. There are problems which need to be addressed, such as the load time when a new google is done, which is often a lot slower that doing a search in the google bar in the open browser. I still get the startup IE error. Shawn has suggested other things in the past which would improve things: http://bit.ly/shawndqsd and http://bit.ly/shawnxml Some other ideas to continue the brainstorming: - turn dqsd.net into a wiki - add a proposed new feature section (such as linking one search to different a browser, floating toolbar, Logins with authentication code, etc) and let people vote like on http://digsbies.org/site/wishlist - add a blog Lots of people out there work on open source software, dqsd needs more exposure to get more users for that to happen. We can start that by linking up the buzz we already have, e.g. adding links to posts such as David Blume's http://dblume.livejournal.com/65402.html Tom. Original Message Subject: dqsd.net webmaster? Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:22:21 + From: Tom Corcoran tom.corco...@moonbade.com tom.corco...@moonbade.com Reply-To: tom.corco...@moonbade.com To: DQSD dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.netdqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, Does anyone know who runs/has control over dqsd.net? Is the domain still David Bau's? I am wondering as I would like to make a change on the http://www.dqsd.net/contrib/ since a domain of mine listed there has changed and will be expired in less than 30 days. I am not a member of the -devel list so am just emailing this user list. Maybe the access could be opened up and we could update the site? Thanks, Tom. -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users%0adqsd-us...@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601 -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ To unsubscribe visit:
Re: [DQSD-Users] dqsd.net webmaster?
Brent, Thanks for doing that, great idea! If Dave agrees to the redirect then this is a big start in the right direction. Tom. On 02/03/2010 16:40, Brent Beardsley wrote: Hi all, I think we should just have dqsd.sourceforge.net as the main page - we can see if Dave will redirect dqsd.net back to dqsd.sourceforge.net. I changed the home page to dqsd.sourceforge.net, uploaded the files in dqsdweb to the htdocs for dqsd project and it seems to work. Note, I have not tried every page and every link - also you'll have to clear your browser cache as the old index page on the dqsd htdocs site redirects to dqsd.net I can easily change it back to the way it was but that way wasn't working and I like the idea of having the dsqdweb files hosted on sourceforge so that all the admins can mess with it and avoid the problems we're currently experiencing. Your thoughts? Brent From: Kim Grsman kim.gras...@gmail.com To: tom.corco...@moonbade.com; DQSD users mailing list dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tue, March 2, 2010 3:14:56 AM Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] dqsd.net webmaster? Hi Tom, I think the most pressing concern is that we seem to have lost control of dqsd.net -- updates aren't bubbling through as they should, and we don't know who has access to the host. - There is a wiki (now defunct, apparently, I can't get to the pages) for developers at SourceForge. Would a user-facing wiki be valuable? - Feature requests can be made at SourceForge. I agree it's not as appealing as the link you posted. My life is busy with two small children, and I don't have all that much time to develop DQSD, but I'd love to see it grow, too. :) If we could get the infrastructural problems sorted, maybe we could kickstart development again, starting with a proper 4.1 release, and then look into the various issues we have? - Kim On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:36, Tom Corcoran tom.corco...@moonbade.com wrote: I did not need another sign to know DQSD was in trouble but no response to my post shows that. We need to do something to keep dqsd alive, the reality is it's slowly dying even though many of us still use it daily. There are problems which need to be addressed, such as the load time when a new google is done, which is often a lot slower that doing a search in the google bar in the open browser. I still get the startup IE error. Shawn has suggested other things in the past which would improve things: http://bit.ly/shawndqsd and http://bit.ly/shawnxml Some other ideas to continue the brainstorming: - turn dqsd.net into a wiki - add a proposed new feature section (such as linking one "search" to different a browser, floating toolbar, Logins with authentication code, etc) and let people vote like on http://digsbies.org/site/wishlist - add a blog Lots of people out there work on open source software, dqsd needs more exposure to get more users for that to happen. We can start that by linking up the buzz we already have, e.g. adding links to posts such as David Blume's http://dblume.livejournal.com/65402.html Tom. Original Message Subject: dqsd.net webmaster? Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:22:21 + From: Tom Corcoran tom.corco...@moonbade.com Reply-To: tom.corco...@moonbade.com To: DQSD dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, Does anyone know who runs/has control over dqsd.net? Is the domain still David Bau's? I am wondering as I would like to make a change on the http://www.dqsd.net/contrib/ since a domain of mine listed there has changed and will be expired in less than 30 days. I am not a member of the -devel list so am just emailing this user list. Maybe the access could be opened up and we could update the site? Thanks, Tom. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
