Can xfce4 iconize to the desktop

[roger]

Hi,

I'm not sure that these basic requirements are unpopular... and I'm not the 
only one thinking so.

At work, we've got numerous (not so antique) Sun and AIX workstations/servers 
as well as cheap Linux-based PC's, which we mainly use just for connecting to 
the Sun's and AIX's, then displaying applications running on those boxes.

For us, who simultaneously run a lot of applications (mainly xterm's and 
editors), a taskbar (or even an iconbox) is not up to the job: we definitely 
prefer the CDE/Motif icons for minimized applications.

For that reason, we've been running Xfce3 on our Linux boxes until recently.
Unfortunately, after having swapped our old Sun Workshop's with newer 
SunOneStudio's, we found out that the Xfce3 window manager wouldn't display 
properly these IDE's (parts of them were just out of screen!).

So we upgraded to Xfce4, which is much better that Xfce3 in any respect... 
except for minimized application icons!

Personally, I've been running Xfce4 (with iconbox) since its first release on 
my home desktop, but here I don't have the same constraints I have at work (I 
don't own 20 other machines on which I would have 10 connected xterm's per 
each :-)

Months ago I inquired about the prospect of having CDE-style icons within 
Xfce4 (features wish). I then was nicely answered to be patient since someone 
was already working on this.

Is this project still on?

Thanks for your time,
Roger.

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 03:09 am, Nepple, Bruce wrote:
> I currently use CDE, and was told that XFCE was similar.
>
> From http://xwinman.org/xfce.html
> XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX platforms.
> It is similar to the commercial CDE, and is now based on the GTK+ toolkit
>
> My requirements for a desktop/windowmanager are simple (but, it seems,
> unpopular):
>
> 1. active applications can be iconized to the desktop, remembering where
> they belong (this is CDE.  If your windowmanager can't do this, how are you
> similar to CDE?)
>
> 2.  Multiple workspaces
>
> 3.  right click or some other simple application startup method
>
> Shading doesn't cut it, although it would be neat to have shading & icons.
>
> I typically have 8 or 10 terminals with 30 to 40 edit sessions in a single
> workspace, and they are organized by desktop position.  It is very
> cluttered, as is my real desk. I may have up to 10 active workspaces of
> similar complexity.
>
> (What use is a desktop if you can't put anything on it :)? )
>
> Anyway, can xfce4 be forced to work that way (iconize to desktop).  I
> disabled the taskbar and got no icons whatsoever.
>
> BTW,  If you know what other window/desktop manager might work for me,
> please let me know. (maybe CTWM?).  I just have to get away from our
> friggen solaris antique iron.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
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