New desktop, test ver.

edscott wilson garcia edscott at prodigy.net.mx
Tue Oct 7 20:17:41 CEST 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 11:47, Luca Roccia wrote:
> Here is the first version mvideo.sourceforge.net/xfce4-desktop.tar.bz2
> It is mainly a test ver.
> 
> Anyway background code is complete (no bugs or memory leaks left I hope
> :))
> Icon code is only partially complete. For safety purpouse isn't possible
> to launch prog.s douple-clicking on icons.
> In these days I'll finish icon code, adding:
> Transparency for caption;
> Alpha channel for img.s;
> Finishing support for "action icons" (like trash icon & co)
> 
> Please note that icon-files must be stored in ~/Desktop and starts with
> a dot (eg. .xine.lnk).
> Attached you'll find an icon-file example.

Nope. Not here.

> 
> Please tell me what do you think of the development done right now.

If you cannot launch prog.s douple-clicking on icons, what's the use of
having them? 

Single click for restoring minimized icons and double click for running
programs linked by icons sounds logical to me.

regards,

Edscott
> 
> P.S.
> Right now (to manage icons and desktop) xfce4-desktop (this is the name
> I thought) takes 5Mb. where idesk takes 7/8 Mb. to manage only icons :)




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