Contributing to XFCE

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:14 PM, alepic <alepic at geckoblu.net> wrote:
> Well ... no !
>
> Or better I tried but without success, I suppose I was to much willing to
> start programming.
> But you are right Actions Buttons can be configured to behave exactly like
> my plugin.
> So my plugin is useless and Action Buttons is perfect !
> Thank you very much.
>
> It was a good programming exercise anyway. I learned a lot so for me was not
> a waste of time.
>
Great.


> No reason to make it public but I'll keep it private for myself.
>
> For my next plugin I have the intention to port the GNOME Window Applets to
>
This could be a nice addition but have you tried using this Gnome
applet via the XfApplet plugin?

Liviu


> XFCE so I'm starting playing with libwnck. Hoping this one will be useful
> also for someone else than myself.
> With the patch to hide the titlebar on maximized windows, I see on another
> thread on this mailing list, it could be very pretty.
>
> Regards
> Alessio
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:09 AM, alepic <alepic at geckoblu.net> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > my name is Alessio Piccoli, I'm Italian and I'm a professional IT
>> > developer
>> > (Java).
>> >
>> > I would like to contribute to XFCE and as I'm still learning C I will
>> > focus
>> > on very easy task.
>> > For the moment I'm concentrating on writing panel plugins, I hope to be
>> > soon
>> > able to help fixing small bugs in existing code.
>> >
>> > My first effort is a very small panel plugin, just a simple button which
>> > shows the xfce4-session dialog to exit the system, more like the old
>> > Actions
>> > plugin of version 4.8 that I think was perfect.
>> >
>> From what I see in 4.10, the Actions Buttons can be customized to
>> emulate the old version in 4.8. Have you tried tweaking it in
>> Properties?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Liviu
>>
>>
>>
>> > You can find source code here
>> > https://github.com/geckoblu/xfce4-exitbutton-plugin
>> >
>> > Is it possible to publish it under
>> > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugin ?
>> >
>> > Thank you
>> > Alessio
>> >
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