XFDesktop in CVS

[Olivier Fourdan]

Humm, Jasper, sorry, there is a bug in margins...

I have maybe 200 pixels lost at the bottom of the screen even if I set
bottom margin to zero...

Well, that'll wait for tomorrow :) 

Good night.
Olivier.

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 22:47, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Hi al,
> 
> As you may know, I have been working on a possible replacement fro xfbd
> and xfdeskmenu. Let me explain what it's supposed to do.
> 
> xfdesktop, when run creates a fullscreen background window, which it
> uses to set a background image and to provide a root menu.
> 
> Accompanying this program are currently three settings manager plugins,
> to provide backdrop settings, desktop margins and workspace settings
> (number and names).
> 
> I had to fix the first crasher bug 10 seconds after I imported the code
> into CVS, so perhaps that is a sign of the stability ... :)
> 
> The menu is not configurable yet. It's just there to show how a menu can
> be implemented. It has a menu on the left mouse click and a windowlist
> menu on right mouse click (or shift-left-click).
> 
> It compiles and works for me, but there will be problems. This is
> largely untested code, so no guarantees whatsoever.
> 
> An impression of the settings dialogs:
> 
> http://members.home.nl/jbhuijsmans/screenshots/20030115.jpg
> 
> Comments, ideas, etc. are very welcome.
> 
> enjoy,
> 	Jasper
> 
> PS
> Now if SF would only fix anonymous CVS access, people might actually get
> a chance to try it...
-- 
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
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