xfdesktop has minimised app icons now!

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Sep 8 12:32:27 CEST 2005


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Biju Chacko wrote:
> Biju Chacko 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:
> 
> 
> Well, it builds now, but I don't see any icons ... do I have to switch 
> it on somehow?

As I said before, did you rerun autogen.sh?  Even if it builds without
it, you won't get icons until you regenerate configure.

	-brian

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