<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pablo Angulo</b> <<a href="mailto:pablo.angulo@uam.es">pablo.angulo@uam.es</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello all,<br> I wonder whether it would be possible (easy) to build a component that<br>essentially contains xfdesktop. I mean: so that you can build an<br>application with gtk windows, gtk menus, gtk toolbars, etc, and a fully<br>
functional xfdesktop contained inside a gtk container.<br> What for? Think of the gimp. It has several windows that are directly<br>managed by the window manager, and that's the way I like it, and that's<br>probably the way you like it, but many people prefer a single window<br>
that contains all the application. When I used windows I preferred this<br>way, because there aren't virtual desktops, and it's a mess to have a<br>bunch of windows in your only desktop.<br> To be even more explicit, ultimately I'd like some pygtk code like<br>
this to work:<br><br>import gtk, pygtk...<br>wini=gtk.Window()<br>toolbi=gtk.ToolBar()<br>boxi=gtk.VBox()<br>...<br>xfdeski=xfce.xfDesktop(folder,options...) #where folder is the<br>equivalent of ~/Desktop (icons in the xfdesktop corresponding to files<br>
in the folder (although choosing icons to represent minimised<br>applications seems more interesting...))<br>boxi.pack_start(xfdeski)<br>wini.add(boxi)<br>...<br><br> Other application I can think of: press a key combination, and, say,<br>
your virtual desktop #2 is contained in a single window. That would<br>provide a way of grouping windows (?). May be you can drag apps onto the<br>window containing the desktop?<br><br> This is just brainstorming, and I would personally use none of the<br>
above, but maybe someone has an idea that is useful.</blockquote><div><br>Actually, I *would* prefer a single window.<br><br>Anyway, a workaround is described here: <a href="http://xubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/howto-run-gimp-in-one-window/">http://xubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/howto-run-gimp-in-one-window/</a><br>
<br>Also, this comment seems to describe what you want (I haven't tried it): <a href="http://xubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/howto-run-gimp-in-one-window/#comment-5778">http://xubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/howto-run-gimp-in-one-window/#comment-5778</a><br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Pablo Angulo<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vincent