Re: Pinboard icon handling (was Re: [rox-devel] Bug reporting, patches and suggestions.)

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 02:04:31PM -0500, Diego Zamboni wrote:
> 
> ta...@ec... said:
> > A slight worry here is that using the menu only removes the icon,
> > whereas dragging to the bin removes the file it points to... 
> 
> I was thinking about this too. I was about to sit down and write a
> little program that adds and removes icons to the pinboard by editing
> the pb_* file and then calling rox with "-p" to reload the pinboard (to
> use with my Trashcan program when you remove something from the
> pinboard). There are two problems:
> 
> - If ROX-Filer happens to be updating the pinboard at the same time, the
> file could get corrupted.

The filer writes to a new file and then renames it over the old one. You
might lose a change, but it should never get corrupted.

> - Only ROX-Filer knows the precise size of the icons, so that new icons
> can be positioned without overlapping existing ones.
> 
> For these two reasons, I was also thinking of incorporating the
> functionality into ROX-Filer. What do you think?

For removing, we can just get -x to silently remove the pinned file
instead of displaying an error. I'm not happy about having programs
automatically add stuff to the pinboard, though...


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