[rox-devel] tasklist / libwnck patch status update (and url)

[Artem B. <ar...@v2...>]

Artem Baguinski wrote:
> dear all
> 
> i'm working on adding a new feature to rox tasklist and i wanna hear 
> your reaction / advice.
> 
> the idea: by dragging a task button from a tasklist into filer one can 
> easily create rox wrappers to running applications. say i start mozilla 
> from xterm, open my home directory and drag the mozilla button from 
> tasklist into it. tasklist comes up with a name, icon, AppRun wrapping 
> mozilla.
> 
> status:
> 
> 1. i had to first modify libwnck to support task_drag_start and 
> task_drag_data_get callbacks -> this part is mostly finished, i only 
> have to add some cleanups and handle reassigning the callbacks correctly 
> (not that anybody'll ever want to reassign the callbacks, but who am i 
> to foresee)
> 
> 2. then i needed to modify tasklist to supply these callbacks, which i 
> did. I used GtkSavebox as a reference for implementing XDS dnd. At the 
> moment the callback:
>  (a) comes up with a nice name (using wnck_application_get_name) and 
> creates a directory with such name
>  (b) discovers the command line that was used to start the application 
> and creates AppRun that looks like: "#!/bin/sh ; exec that-command-line"

  (c) creates .DirIcon using gdk_pixbuf received with 
wnck_application_get_icon() that's the icon you see in the taslklist - 
some applucations don't provide one (or libwnck fails to retrieve it).

> i don't wanna publish the patch in its current state (and i still have 
> to come up with a .DirIcon which i hope to accomplish later today).

i've reluctantly uploaded the patch + modified version of the libwnck here:

http://www.artm.org/pub/hacks/rox/tasklist/

the patch is against version 0.5 of tasklist from

http://sheen.fallingsnow.net/Software/

test and enjoy ;-)

i'd appreciate any better ideas about searching for icon or command line 
to go into AppRun.

cheers,
artm