menu settings, backdrop list selection

Philip Scott philip.scott10 at ntlworld.com
Wed May 5 02:56:50 CEST 2004


Ah. I didn't remember there being an option for icons in the panel 
plugin and didn't think to look there. It was disabled, sorry about that.

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> yep, that was my bad.  removed a single line of code in a cleanup that i 
> shouldn't have, which removed the call that connnects the button press 
> signals for each desktop.  whoops.  danny fixed it yesterday, hopefully 
> you've noticed already (sorry for the late reply, my email's been rather 
> flaky so i only got this this morning).
> 
> as for the panel plugin...  i can't reproduce that - when i change the 
> option, the menu immediately rebuilds with (or without) icons, as 
> requested.  please try killing the panel and running it from a terminal.  
> if there's any output that appears related, let me know.
> 
> i did notice that the default upon adding the item is incorrect (it 
> should be checked by default).  fixed in CVS.
> 
> 	-brian
> 
> 
> On Mon, 3 May 2004, Philip Scott wrote:
> 
> 
>>I also have this behaviour, no mouse events seem to be used. Changing 
>>the options doesn't alter this.
>>Also, the icons were originally shown for me in the menu when called 
>>from the panel but after disabling and re-enabling them, they are now 
>>not shown no matter what the status of the option is. I've restarted it 
>>in between changing options, with no effect.
>>
>>Jean-François Wauthy wrote:
>>
>>>I don't know if i'm the only one but here it seems mouse events on the
>>>desktop aren't intercepted anymore (scrolling included) and icons in the
>>>menu (from panel) aren't shown anymore altought i haven't touched the
>>>option. Any ideas ?
>>>
>>>Le lun 03/05/2004 à 10:52, Brian J. Tarricone a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>>>hi all-
>>>>
>>>>i finally added the options to the desktop settings panel to control the 
>>>>menu.  you can enable/disable the window list or the desktop menu, and 
>>>>for each you can choose whether or not to display icons.  the panel 
>>>>plugin also now has an option to show icons in the menu.
>>>
>>>
>>>>i also added the feature requested on the xfce ML.  the edit backdrop 
>>>>list dialog will now preselect the backdrop that's currently set, and it 
>>>>puts an asterisk before and after the filename.  i tried to make it bold 
>>>>or italicise the name, but from what i could find on the topic, doing 
>>>>pango-ish stuff to the GtkCellRenderer is a pain, and i don't think it's 
>>>>worth the effort.
>>>>
>>>>moritz: i haven't tested the new stuff with --disable-desktop-menu.  let 
>>>>me know if there are any problems.  the settings panel should get 
>>>>compiled without desktop menu settings as well.  i'm thinking of 
>>>>removing --disable-desktop-menu at some point, because disabling it from 
>>>>the settings panel has the same effect - the module gets unloaded, and 
>>>>xfdesktop checks the setting at startup to see if it should even bother 
>>>>loading the module.  the only difference is in code size for the 
>>>>xfdesktop binary (minor, i'd think), and the fact that you have an 
>>>>unused shared lib bumming around in /usr/lib/xfce4/modules/.  what do 
>>>>you think?  ditch the configure option?
>>>>
>>>>yay, my todo list is getting shorter:
>>>>- fix app-crashing problem
>>>>- usability tweaks for the backdrop settings
>>>>- xinerama
>>>>- desktop menu cleanups
>>>>
>>>>and now i shall take a 3 hour nap before i go to work =p.
>>>>
>>>>   -brian
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