xfdesktop has minimised app icons now!

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Sep 8 12:33:25 CEST 2005


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Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Biju Chacko wrote:
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>>>Biju Chacko wrote:
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>>>>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>>>>Hi all,
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>>>>>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...
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>>>>
>>>>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.

And it also really helps if I actually commit the changes to
configure.ac.  Sorry!  Should work now.

	-brian

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