Hi there, I wrote a program that sort of allows you to change the menu, naming and categories in some puppy linux distros. The ideas I had was it would be nice to sort of change the all the naming and menu styling in big batches. Like to be silly, change all the names of your programs to fake windows names, and make a windows style menu. Or change some puppy names to more generic names so newbies might not be overwhelmed.
So I took the Linux mint cinnamon menus, categories, and icons, and made a program that merges them into Puppy disrtos. I tested on 32 bit Xenial and Bionic, and I think the FossaPup 64 bit. So far it seems to work. The program actually allows for a fair amount of customization, and it reads in .txt files to make the configurations. I just use Linux Mint as an example of what can be done, and there is a windows like example written into the program.
It is brand new, and I actually started learning basic bash scripting for this project 3 days ago. I took python course at a community college less than 1 year ago, so I'm not a veteran by any means. What I'm getting at is I think the program will not harm your system, but since it is brand new and I am still learning, I would probably try on a usb live system or a system you are not too worried about losing if you are willing to test and give me feedback.
Thanks to anyone who will give it a try!
The file is located at: https://github.com/garydavenport73/puppymint/
The filename is:
puppymint.tar.gz
When you unpack it, there will be 2 programs, run.sh, and installToSystem.sh. Its really intended to use the installToSystem.sh script, because this writes a copy of the necessary files for rolling back the system to the /usr/local/puppymint folder. It is also nicer because it adds the program to your menu and makes a .desktop file.
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