xfdesktop has minimised app icons now!

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Sep 8 12:27:06 CEST 2005


On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:30:09 +0530, Biju Chacko <botsie at xfce.org> wrote:

> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I took a stab at implementing CDEish minimised app icons on the
> > desktop.  It's coming along pretty well.  You can't drag them around
> > yet, but it otherwise works.  Give it a try on xfdesktop trunk and
> > let me know what you think.
> > 
> > Here it is in action:
> > http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfce4/images/screenshots/other/xfdesktop-window-icons-20050908.png
> > 
> > Note that I'm *not* going to support arbitrary positioning of icons:
> > they'll always be aligned to a grid wherever they are on the
> > desktop.
> > 
> > I'm also *not* going to support files or application launchers on
> > the desktop.  Xffm already provides that, and Thunar will as well,
> > so if you want that, use that.  This is just for people that like
> > the old CDE feel.
> > 
> > 2:45am... I should be in bed...
> 
> I suspect you haven't commited xfce-desktop.h because I get the 
> following build error:

[snip]

I suspect you're jumping to conclusions and just didn't rerun
autogen.sh ^_~.

	-brian




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