xfdesktop extension

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Tue Jul 12 06:20:08 CEST 2005


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Please don't email me directly; use the xfce4-dev list.

Johannes Zellner wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I wrote a little app and a nice dhtml script to replace the normal
> backdrop in xfce.
> But I can't find a way to let xfdesktop show my mozembedwidget.
> 
> A screenshot of the "desktop" can be found on
> http://x.nebulon.de/xfce4-htmldesk.png.
> (the Icons can be moved around with drag'n'drop and they execute on
> doubleclick an application)
> Today I have only a function to handle the data-way from javascript to
> c, but I wanna handle the other way in the near future.

You'd need to merge your changes into xfdesktop/src/xfce-desktop.c.
That file *is* the desktop widget.

> I think this is a nice way to make xfce easier to use for
> eyecandy-freaks in the future.
> And I know this is not really the way of lightwheight, but it's just for
> me :-D

Yeah, gtkmozembed is about as far away from lightweight as you can get...

	-brian



> Probably you could help me.
> Just tell me where i should include my widget so it's shown instead of
> the normal backdrop-image.
> 
> Greets
>    Johannes
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