^^Correct!

But really, it isn't similar to the ones he mentioned at all. Plus, go ahead and search for a simple gui frontend to ffplay to only play music and nothing else. There's some bits and chunks here and there, but most are full-on MP's or video players, converters etc. ffmpeg does a lot of stuff, easy to get caught up in "what if I added blah blah?" Then comes the feature bloat.

But it seems like most times when I start a project or even think out loud about one, there's always gonna be that guy that has to post "why don't you just use blah blah?"

Really no point in trying to explain myself to 'em.

Made an updated version that I need to upload, I expanded the search function from title-only to title and description, should have done that from the get-go. Also made a kind of companion app, a manual for Vuu-do, which was previously all in the release notes which was one giant text file. Was able to re-use a lot of the code from the VAI app, the basic GUI code is very simple and works great for any simple app that's intended to display info.
Screenie ( you'll need to click the image to get full-size view or else it looks blurry):
https://imgdump5.novarata.net/no5cx2.png

^^ That's an interesting article, but the author said his program is available now using apt, but I don't see it in the repo. I wouldn't mind trying it.

So for the upcoming excalibur, the qt5-gtk2-platform theme is going bye-bye, The current package might still work, haven't tried it yet.

But going forward I and hopefully some folks smarter than me may have a solution in the works.

The qt6gtk2 package I mentioned above also has a version for trixie, that I have tested on Devuan excalibur and it works fine.

The same author has a qt5 version as well, qt5gtk2, no .deb package yet though, but I did a local make/install from source and it works great in daedalus, just not in excalibur/trixie yet. So hopefully I can get some real ninjas to take a look and maybe fix it. The fellows who packaged the .debs for the qt6gtk2 had to make some changes to get it to work for trixie, i'm hoping they can work that magic for this package as well.

So going forward it's a nice solution as those programs are currently maintained even if they aren't in Debian.

Somebody smarter than me will likely be along directly, but my first thoughts were:

1. xwayland???? Does that even work on 32 bit?
2. KDE on a low spec 32 bit machine? That's like the most complex and resource-intensive DE.

Uploaded .debs of the new apps mentioned in the last post (forgot to mention in that post that I included Fatstick on those new iso's too).
Basically all the stuff in my various DIY threads of late.

They can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … eous/apps/

Hope they're useful for folks, it was a lot of long hard work, but man did I ever expand my working knowledge of these kinds of things!

So for the life of me I cannot find another iso that does that stuff the #!++ 32 bit does. But still, need to deal with it. Pragmatism won out in the end, I just modded the script to check for additional partitions, and if it has one or more extras, it generates an error dialog and exits the script performing no actions on the liveUSB. Done. Going into the new Vuu-do iso's i'm working on today.

^^Yeah I got sound in FF just using alsa-only, even in my Mate systems which throw a fit when you first rip out Pulse, lol.

@tux_99 Thanks so much for testing!

Surprised nobody mentioned Mate, Devuan's Mate version is very nice. Not sure about the touchpad stuff as I never use it.

FFS knock it off. Put that energy into creating something. I know Steve does some amazing work, and you've both been with us since the early days, can we just put differences aside and focus on making Devuan the best that it can be?

Lawd knows i'm no paragon of virtue, but i'm trying to be better. Can we not work together to create new and better things?

Version 4 uploaded.

No bugs, just moved some files around to comply with Debian's FHS policy,  added a readme in /usr/share/vai with some info,
and cleaned up some superfluous code in the postisnt script in the .deb package. Looking great!