[Thunar-dev] First code

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Brian, one thing about ThunarDesktopView: For the storage of the icon 
> positions and the backdrops for the various monitors, an early idea of 
> mine was to store these settings into the ~/Desktop/.directory file as 
> special settings (prefixed with X-Thunar). IMHO, it makes sense to store 
> the information about the display of the desktop folder into the desktop 
> folder and not into the ThunarPreferences. ThunarDesktopView will 
> provide a D-BUS interface, which supports adjusting those settings from 
> outside thunar, e.g. from a separate settings module, that can be hooked 
> into xfce-mcs-manager or from a program, that periodically changes the 
> wallpaper. What do you think?

I was thinking along similar lines: to store desktop-related settings
and positions in ~/Desktop, but I hadn't thought of the .directory file.
 Is this such a good idea?  I imagine it could get quite large, since
you'd need at least four bits of information per icon: name, screen
number, xpos, ypos.  But does size really matter (heh) in this case?

Also, I'm not sure I like the fact that the desktop settings (backdrop
picture, etc.) are in a rather non-discoverable place, though I suppose
it doesn't matter for the 'average' user, since they won't care.

I'm a big fan of exposing a D-BUS interface.  Lots of fun things you can
do with that.

I dunno.  Will ruminate later.  Must get back to cleaning apartment.

	-b

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