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[Idesk-devel] Menu Command on Right Click

[anil k. <ani...@gm...>]

Hi,
    I am using Idesk as desktop icon manager in my linux distro. I
want to create a menu when right click press on desktop icon.
    How to give menu command option  in idesk db files.


Thanks and Regards,
Anil Kumar

[Idesk-devel] Look XP with IDESK

[Manuel C. <ma...@mi...>]

I'm the administrator of the LXP project, a desktop environment for 
Linux/Unix with an identical look that Windows XP.
LXP is based in a version of idesk modified.

1.- I have modified idesk in order to catch the HUP signal and reload 
its configuration an repaint the desktop.
2.- Also I have included a .spec file in order to produce .rpm packages.

I would like you try the idesk patch in order to discuss the 
improvements and eventually include these changes in an idesk official 
release.


LXP home: http://lxp.sourceforge.net
LXP patch for idesk: http://lxp.sourceforge.net/files/idesk-0.7.5-LXP.patch

Thank you very much.
Manuel Carrasco

[Idesk-devel] I should have done this a while back

[Tim F. <ti...@um...>]

So, I apologize. I keep on telling myself that I will work on idesk next
winter, and then the summer, and then after that, but it is not
happening. So I should have let someone else take over this project a
long time ago. I have not been using idesk for the past 6 months and
have been very lackluster answering any support questions. Please email
me if you have desire to take over the project. It was fun when I was
into it, but don't have the motivation anymore.

Tim

[Idesk-devel] Segmentation fault due to Imlib error

[Neil D. <ne...@ne...>]

Don't know why but when I launch idesk, it throws a segmentation fault.
The reason is that Imlib_crop_and_clone_image() returns a NULL pointer
(so it fails) in void XIdeskImage::repaint() (file XIdeskImage.cpp).
Here are the lines:

background = Imlib_crop_and_clone_image(imlibData, spareRoot,
                                        x, y, width, height );
bgRgb = background->rgb_data;

Using idesk 0.5.5 or 0.5.6 under GNU/Linux with fluxbox 0.9.9.

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Neil Dökkalfar <ne...@ne...>

[Idesk-devel] FASD project: Online survey launched

[<ben...@id...>]

Dear Open Source developer

I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it.

With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development.


With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger


PS:
The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list.

_______________________________________________________________________

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8092 Zurich

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[Idesk-devel] Inroduction and a small idea...

[Le T. <Le...@ba...>]

Hello to the iDesk developers!

First, here's something about me:

My name is Tommy and I'm from just outside Edinburgh in Scotland. I've just started using Linux (Gentoo) 100% on my machines and am getting into GUI programming. I came across iDesk when looking for a desktop icon package to use with XFCE4 and am loving it :p. I'd like to help contribute to the iDesk project and bring with me years of C/C++/Delphi/FORTRAN programming skills (I'm a natural environment modeller at a science institute). I'm just getting up to speed on the gtk/X-Windows way and iDesk seems to be a good place to start!

Here's some suggestions, of which I'd be willing to undertake if they were deemed a "good idea":

(1) Some "special commands" for icons to execute
For example, an EXIT command that simply exits iDesk cleanly. I've been using the command "killall -9 idesk" on an icon to provide a logout facility for XFCE4 as I have iDesk set as my session-keep-alive app and using killall grates (I've hacked the code to do this already).
Other possible actions could be to run the system $TERM, screensaver or xlock

(2) A built-in gtk preferences/icon editor
I see that there is already a partial Python gui, I suppose it would be nice to have a full gtk implementation that didn't depond on any other pacakages?

Let me know if I'm talking rubbish, or suggest something I could help with (bearing in mind my aforementioned X/gtk newbie-ness)

Tommy.

[Idesk-devel] Hello.

[Jonathan D. <cy...@ug...>]

Hello all,

I just subscribed to this list today.  I've recently been talking with Tim
about the idea of implementing a C++ / QT configuration tool for iDesk.
I'd like to use the native iDesk configuration file API, but apparently
the format of the configs is in flux right now (or at least some posts
seem to indicate that people are thinking about how to change it).

I have seen references to the freedesktop.org icon spec.  Are there any
thoughts on the subject?  As was mentioned in a previous post (perhaps
it was to idesk-users), a partial implementation of the spec is one
option.

Before I do any more work on the gui (I have just a Designer project file
and simple gui at this point), I'd like to get some closure on the issue
of iDesk-friendly (and sustainable) config parsing.

Any ideas?

Jonathan

[Idesk-devel] Re: [Idesk-core-devel] Idesk

[Tim F. <ti...@um...>]

Agreed. I looked through the spec on freedesktop.org. It contains alot
more than we would need to worry about (mime types, menu entries, and
lots of other things). I don't think it would make any sense to support
the entire spec, but I think it is a great idea to support all of the
things which are relevent to desktop icons. This may allow us to
transfer gnome (or kde) icons straight into idesk, cool.

Maybe I can find someone who would like to do some coding in this area.

Tim

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 02:20, Bryn Davies wrote:
> You know what would be cool for the configuration files?  
> OpenDesktop.org or whatever they're called at the moment ( might be 
> freedesktop.org ) have a specification for 'desktop icon configuration 
> files'.  I think it would be really cool if we could support this, as 
> its eventually what gnome and kde are going to be migrating to.
> 
> Bryn.
> 

[Idesk-devel] Idesk

[Tim F. <ti...@um...>]

Hello,

You've probably noticed that not much idesk stuff has been going on.
Things have been quiet since the summer. I recently had the chance to
work on things more since I was stopped short earlier this summer, but
I've gotten the bug to redo a lot of the code again. I've done a good
bit already, but there are many things I still need to do. The next
release (whenever I may get it done) will hopefully fix some of the
install problems because it will use the GNU autotools (configue and
such). There will be support for both imlib and imlib2, but using imlib2
will give you more features. Also with autotools you will be able to
remove SVG support to get rid of the gnome dependencies.

Unfortunately I don't have any time line. The more I get bugged
(positively :) ), the likely I will be to get things done faster. I'd
like to ask for a few favors, if anyone would like to help (don't feel
obligated to do anything you can volunteer as little or as much as you'd
like).

Anyone have suggestions to improve the configuration files? Maybe
different syntax, different filetypes, etc. I'd like to have a much
better config parser, the current Database.cpp is kinda gross and breaks
very easily. Let me know if you would like to write a new configuration
file parser.

Someone made a man page for idesk 0.3.5, but there is not one for the
current version. If anyone would like to do it, that would be great.

I could use some people to help with support questions. I'm not always
the best at answering everyones questions on the user mailing list, the
forums or email. Thanks to those of you who do help out (Thorsten,
curious, and others).

Another idea would be to work on a gui configuration program,
scottanious made a cool perlGtk script which does come configure stuff
already if you want to start with that
(http://idesk.timmfin.net/releases/ideskConf.pl-0.2).

So if you'd like to to something why don't you send it off to the devel
mailing list (and join the list). I didn't have to list it here, if
you'd like to do something say so. 

Thanks,

Tim

[Idesk-devel] New small release

[Tim F. <ti...@um...>]

Released a small bugfixed version. Gets rid of the defunct processes
bug. Thanks to ts...@gm... and cog...@li....

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=83307

Major changes are still for a while to come.

Tim

Re: [Idesk-devel] zombiebug and featurerequest

[Tim F. <ti...@ti...>]

Hey thanx, I will stick this in for now for the next release. I don't
know a ton about threads programming so help in this area is always
appreciated. 

Sorry I have been so quiet I just finished dealing with my broken
computer (the bad capacator motherboard thing) and can finally get back
to programming some. My current version of idesk is pretty deep in
significant changes (goodbye imlib hello imlib2), so I think I will
release a new version just based on the 5.5 with this fix. Alot of
people have been asking about it. 

Yes, idesk does execute things through sh, but there is still something
iffy. Some programs will not start correctly if started in idesk (vs
started some other way inside of X windows). I could never track the
problem down, but it seems that this happens when idesk is started
before X comes up. Its almost as if idesk doesn't get all the env
settings or somthing that X sets up. I think one of the programs with
this problem is yelp, I can't remember the others.

Tim

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 14:32, Thierry CONSEJO wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I noticed also the zombie processes bug in idesk.
> Made a quick fix. I change the XDesktopContainer::runCommand method.
> Here is the new code :
> void XDesktopContainer::runCommand(const string & command)
> {
>     pid_t pid;
>   
>     //fork and execute program
> 	if (pid=fork() != 0) {
> 		setsid();
> 		execl("/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", "-c", command.c_str(), 0);
> 		exit(0); //exit fork
> 	}
> 	waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
> }
> 
> Works on my gentoo. It is a simple fix but please test.
> Btw, if somebody can tell me the prefered way to make a patch file, I'll post that.
> 
> For the launch of the programs with sh, idesk already does that.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:13:02 +0200
> Tue Abrahamsen <tw...@wt...> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a bugreport and a feature-request:
> > 
> > The bug is that idesk 0.5.5 doesn't close the programs is starts 
> > properly. A 'ps ax' shows many zombieprocesses on my system after 
> > having used idesk for a while.
> > 
> > The feature-request is that I think, when starting program, they should 
> > be invoked through 'sh', as 'sh' will read enviroment variables from 
> > ~/.bashrc and alike, which some programs need to run properly.
> > 
> > 
> > // Tue Abrahamsen (twoface at wtf dot dk)
> > 
> >     "There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."
> >                                       - Richard Stallman
> > 
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Re: [Idesk-devel] zombiebug and featurerequest

[Thierry C. <tco...@wa...>]

Hello everybody,

I noticed also the zombie processes bug in idesk.
Made a quick fix. I change the XDesktopContainer::runCommand method.
Here is the new code :
void XDesktopContainer::runCommand(const string & command)
{
    pid_t pid;
  
    //fork and execute program
	if (pid=fork() != 0) {
		setsid();
		execl("/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", "-c", command.c_str(), 0);
		exit(0); //exit fork
	}
	waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
}

Works on my gentoo. It is a simple fix but please test.
Btw, if somebody can tell me the prefered way to make a patch file, I'll post that.

For the launch of the programs with sh, idesk already does that.

Hope this helps.

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:13:02 +0200
Tue Abrahamsen <tw...@wt...> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a bugreport and a feature-request:
> 
> The bug is that idesk 0.5.5 doesn't close the programs is starts 
> properly. A 'ps ax' shows many zombieprocesses on my system after 
> having used idesk for a while.
> 
> The feature-request is that I think, when starting program, they should 
> be invoked through 'sh', as 'sh' will read enviroment variables from 
> ~/.bashrc and alike, which some programs need to run properly.
> 
> 
> // Tue Abrahamsen (twoface at wtf dot dk)
> 
>     "There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."
>                                       - Richard Stallman
> 
> 
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[Idesk-devel] zombiebug and featurerequest

[Tue A. <tw...@wt...>]

Hello,

I have a bugreport and a feature-request:

The bug is that idesk 0.5.5 doesn't close the programs is starts 
properly. A 'ps ax' shows many zombieprocesses on my system after 
having used idesk for a while.

The feature-request is that I think, when starting program, they should 
be invoked through 'sh', as 'sh' will read enviroment variables from 
~/.bashrc and alike, which some programs need to run properly.


// Tue Abrahamsen (twoface at wtf dot dk)

    "There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."
                                      - Richard Stallman