xfce4 in CVS (Don't use it)

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Thanks a lot Thomas, I will definitely look into it.

Jasper

At 01:06 PM 5/21/02, you wrote:
>On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:01:25PM +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > At 12:17 PM 5/21/02, you wrote:
> > >On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:04:13PM +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> Maybe some of you noticed when they did a checkout of xfce-devel there
> > >> is now an xfce4 directory with several files containing seemingly random
> > >> code. This is my attempt at a gtk2 based panel.
> > >>
> > >> However it is not anywhere near finished. Really, it's not. I put it
> > >> there to keep an archive and to let people who are interested have a
> > >> look at my ideas. Things will change without prior notice, there is no
> > >> documentation and no fancy configuration system (yet).
> > >
> > >On thing I noticed: in the dialog for editing items, the buttons at the
> > >bottom go [Apply] [Cancel]. Is XFCE going to adopt the ordering system
> > >used in other Gtk+-2.0 apps (including GNOME and ROX), where the 'Yes'
> > >button is always in the bottom-right corner? I think Macs use this style
> > >too.
> >
> > I wanted to, but it seems I forgot ;-) I will probably change that soon.
> >
> > >> You cannot change the configuration and some of the buttons do strange
> > >> stuff like changing style or changing the panel size.
> > >
> > >If you want a nice, well tested options box, you can lift options.c out
> > >of ROX-Filer and drop it in with only minor changes[1]. It's very easy to
> > >use, eg:
> >
> > Thanks for the pointer. I was thinking about looking at ROX code for some
> > other things as well (like xml handling). Is this in any way linked to the
> > Choices system ?
>
>[...]
>
> > >[1] Changes needed: create choices_* functions which tell the options
> > >system where to load and save the choices, and remove code for converting
> > >old format options files to XML.
>
>The file choices.c provides functions which give pathnames. Eg:
>
>choices_find_path_load("menus", "ROX-Filer")
>                         = "/usr/local/share/Choices/ROX-Filer/menus"
>
>choices_find_path_save("menu", "ROX-Filer")
>                         = "/home/fred/Choices/ROX-Filer/menus"
>
>You can either copy that file (possibly getting XFCE to modify CHOICESPATH
>at runtime to change the search path), or write your own replacement
>functions.
>
>
>--
>Thomas Leonard                  http://rox.sourceforge.net
>tal00r at ecs.soton.ac.uk          tal197 at users.sourceforge.net
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