Who wants a taskbar in xfce ? Well, it's in the CVS !

[edscott wilson garcia]

Although I would not use it myself, since it can be turned on/off on the
fly, it seems like a good idea. I suppose any "bloat" arguments against
it can be solved by using a runtime loading module. I haven't had a
chance to check out the code (just the snapshot) to see whether it takes
up space while invisible. But this could also be taken care of.

Edscott

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:44, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Yes, you read it in the title : Marcin Staszyszyn has contributed a
> taskbar for xfce3. It's now in the CVS.
> 
> I copy his mail for intructions on how to use/configure it :
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hello Oliver!
> At the beginning I must say that I'm impressed by XFCE. Its idea and
> realisation perfectly fits into Uni*x concept as an powerful environment
> build of small, but extendable and perfectly fitting together pieces of
> software. The most important thing for me as a developer is that XFCE is
> open source and it is written in C. Its small (?) size allows to easy
> start extending its functionality, despite of lack of documentation
> (well, good written code can document itself ;-)
> First extension I want to contribute to XFCE is a taskbar. I know some
> people are pro and some are anti taskbar in XFCE but I think I could be
> good to give user a possibility to decide whether he wants to have
> taskbar or not. My proposition has the following advantages over other
> taskbar implementations:
> - it can be disabled at compile time (in fact it must be explicity
> enabled by passing '--enable-taskbar' to 'configure' script)
> - it can be switch on/off during work
> - it can be shown either as a part of XFCE panel or as a standalone
> window (Windows-like). In the first case taskbar inherits XFCE look and
> feel
> (colors, fonts, etc.)
> Personally I think my solution is useful but I don't want to break your
> concept of XFCE. So instead of sending this letter to mail list I'm
> sending it directly to you in order to avoid unnecessary discussion on
> the list. If you decide this concept of taskbar is good and it could be
> nice to have it in XFCE -- please forward most important part of this
> message to xfce-group.
> If not or you have some improvements I could do before making taskbar
> public -- please let me know.
> 
> Taskbar installation
> 
> ./configure     --prefix=/usr \
>                 --datadir=/usr/share \
>                 --sysconfdir=/etc/X11 \
>                 --enable-xft \
>                 --enable-taskbar \
>                 --enable-gdm && \
> make && \
> make install-strip
> 
> 
> Taskbar usage
> After loading of XFCE taskbar is closed be default. You can open it by
> clicking wide, thin button at the bottom of XFCE panel. After that
> several
> buttons appears, each of them pointing to one XFWM window. Depending on
> your
> colour palette some of them can have different background colour --
> taskbar
> distinguish between current and other screens' windows. Window which has
> focus (is active) is indicated by 'pushed' (selected) button. By
> clicking
> that button the window can be minimalised and maximised alternatively.
> To
> select (make active) another windows click corresponding button -- it
> will
> be maximised.
> Taskbar can be closed by clicking leftmost, small button (so called
> close
> button). When you click right mouse button (in fact >=second) on that
> button, pop-up menu appears. From it you can:
> - make taskbar standalone window (Windows-like behaviour) and switch
> that
> feature off
> - chose buttons order on taskbar. They can be sorted by Xwindow id,
> name,
> desktop they appear on or remain unsorted.
> - turn on/off indicator of processor load. It is available only (?) on
> linux
> when '/proc/stat' pseudo-file is present. When turned on taskbar close
> button changes colour according to current processor load.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Olivier               <fourdan at xfce.org>            http://www.xfce.org
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