[Lxde-list] lxlauncher background patch

[Brent M. <bre...@si...>]

Hello,

We have been using the Launcher for our Low Power Computer development 
projects. The Launcher has been working for us quite well. We did like 
the backgrounds in the previous version. I notice there has not been any 
updates on themes since the merge with gmenu and the conformity with 
freedesktop.org specification.

I have implemented some changes that will allow for configurable Button 
icon size and Background image from the command line. We wanted to be 
able to adjust the icon size very easily on each launch. The background 
image from the command line gives us one image for all tabs on the notebook.

Another change I implemented is the extended-format property name from 
the desktop-menu specification at freedesktop.org, X-Background. This 
will add to menu-cache-gen the background filename and will be found in 
the ".directory" file if it exists. These will override any background 
options from the command line. This gives total customization over all 
the backgrounds in the notebook.

Please take a look at the attached patch to see if it would be possible 
to integrate these changes into lxlauncher.

I am not sure what you are planning to do about themes. I have noticed 
that every platform puts its default background directory in a different 
place. They also do not agree on theme specification (eg Gnome vs. KDE). 
I agree this is a very complicated issue. Maybe this could be a 
temporary fix.

Brent