Re: [rox-users] xfce plugins for rox

[Mark W. <mar...@nt...>]

Mark Williams wrote:
> rueldix wrote:
>>>>> How about an applet that'd allow the use of panel plugins for
>>>>> other desktops in ROX panel?
>>>>>
>>>> A quick solution is to hack xfce-panel to be used as a ROX applet.
>>>
>>> hmm,
>>> "external plugins" for the xfce panel and appletes for the rox panel
>>> already use the same mechanism (gtk_plug_new() ). With some ad-hoc
>>> changes it's possible to use e.g. the xfce weather plugin together
>>> with the rox filer.
>>>
>>> I didn't look into it accurately yet. But perhaps it would be possible
>>> to use most of these plugins without any great changes in their
>>> sourcecode, if we just redefine macros like
>>> XFCE_PANEL_PLUGIN_REGISTER_EXTERNAL and functions like
>>> xfce_panel_plugin_block_menu and xfce_panel_plugin_save_location.
>>
>> ok,
>> i took a closer look now and it seems to work.
>> I've started to copy&   paste the code from libxfce4panel and made it
>> compatible with rox. The most code can be removed, because the
>> according features are not supported by rox-filer ( move panel
>> arounds,"internal plugins", sophisticated autohide,...).
>>
>> I'm not finished yet, but it already works well enough to run some
>> applets:
>>
>> xfce-clipman: http://mydisk.se/rueldix/webpage/Clipman.tar.bz2
>> xfce-datetime: http://mydisk.se/rueldix/webpage/Datetime.tar.bz2
>> xfce-mixer: http://mydisk.se/rueldix/webpage/Mixer.tar.bz2
>> xfce-weather: http://mydisk.se/rueldix/webpage/Weather.tar.bz2
>>
>> feel free to test them and report problems to me.
>>
>> This is just the source code. You need libxfce4util, libxfcegui4 and
>> libxfconf for nearly all applets in order to compile and run them - and
>> further, special libraries for each plugin ( libexo for clipman,
>> libgstreamer for mixer,... )
>>
>> These are not real appdirs. I didn't modify the orignal source code of
>> the plugins ( I've just exchange the '#include' lines for libxfce4panel
>> and apdapted the makefiles accordingly). The "configure --prefix" path
>> end up hardcoded in the executable files - at least in some cases. If
>> you move them, you need to recompile them ( otherwise the applications
>> don't find their icons, etc... Is there any easy way to avoid this
>> problem without going through the source code and makefiles manually?
>> The autotools don't seem to accept relative paths,... )
>>
>> known probelms:
>> - resize only work in one direction: the applets can expand, if you
>> enlarge the panel - however, they can't shrink. At the moment, I
>> haven't a clue how to fix this.
>> - the configure dialog don't open automatically, if you start the
>> applets for the first time. Some applets seem to expect this behaviour.
>> So run the configuration dialog manually, if you start them for the
>> first time ( easy to fix )
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
> The weather plugin is great. Clipman faile to complile due to a lack of
> an exo-dev file in the Ubuntu repos.
>
> Haven't tried the other two yet
>
>
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Update. Found the libexo-dev file. Here are three of the plugins 
(clipman, weather and Datetime) happily running in my ROX panel :-)