New XFCE4-Plugin: Show Desktop

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Wed, 30, Jul 2003, Andre Lerche wrote:

> Hi!

Hello Andre,

> Please find my very first panel plugin and some shots (yeah!) on
> 
> http://home.arcor.de/andre.lerche/
> 
> The plugin is called "Show Desktop" and allows you to minimize and
> maximize all unsticky windows on the current workspace by click.
> 
> To be honest, it's my first C-project (if one can call it project)
> and I am still in the process of learning. So, if you find bugs
> or funny sequences in my code, please don't laugh about me, but drop
> me some lines. ;-)
> 
> Currently it works only well if the panel is on the bottom or left
> side on the screen, because on the other sides the icons are in
> the wrong direction. I don't know how to solve this in the moment,
> maybe in a future version I'll include an option dialog for this issue,
> or someone knows some better icons - currently I use some gtk stock icons.
> 
> Now feel free to grab and test it and send me some comments, please.

I'm impressed. This plugin is really usefull. Only 3 "complaints" :-)

1) Can you rename it to xfce4-showdesktop-plugin? The underscore is
   irritating IMHO.

2) You should replace my name in COPYING with your name :-)

3) As you already said, the plugin has problems if the panel is not
   located at the bottom. For me, its located at the top of the screen
   and its really a bit confusing. I hope you'll fix this soon.

I'd like to see this being imported into xfce-goodies.berlios.de. Drop
me a note if you agree with this, and I'll give you developer access
to the repository (as long as nobody else complains).

> Andre

Benedikt

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