Re: [Lxp-users] Using LXP and liking it...

[Manuel C. <man...@us...>]

Hello, again.

Sorry for the delay, but last months I was overworked, and I had not much
time for lookXP.

Also I was working in submiting patches to the official release of icewm in
order to add my changes to it. Some of my changes has been included, but
others are waiting and the process it is too slow.
Now I'm doubtfull about what to do, I'm thinking in maintain my own branch
of icewm and rename it in order to easily maintain the lxp package in
official repositories of ubuntu fedora etc.

Are good news that lxp  works in debian, so I'll include it in tested
distros.

The new menu tries to show all applications that are in the HD, it searchs
for applications under the folders /usr/share/applications and
/usr/app-install/desktop then it distribute them according with the system
configuration under /etc/xdg/menus and /usr/share/desktop-directories.  It's
dificult to accomodate it to every systems.

The list of applications is huge, so icewm waste a lot of time the first
time it's invoked, for this reason the default option for the menu generator
is not to show icons for applications, you can force showing icons adding
the parameter --icons=1. I'm planning to modify icewm in order to load icons
when they are demanded and not when the menu is created (like does xfe,
gnome and others).

I'm working in order the user could create custom entries in his menu i.e:
menuprog "Settings" folder lxp-menu-generator --icons=1
/etc/xdg/menus/settings.menu

Switching between desktop is the more recent feature so I'm not tested it
fully,  it works very well with xfdesktop (it needs some entries in
winoption file that lxp-startup includes), idesk also has needed some
workarround,  but nautilus some times refuses to load, and kdesktop looks to
work fine but it needs something in winoptions in order  to  hidden it's
icon in  alt-tab menu.
Let me know your experience with rox.

Than you for your suggestion about the money, but at the moment I think the
project need more help than money. I'll be pleased to include people
(developers, testers, designers etc) in the project.

Regards
Manolo

On 11/30/06, Myles Green <rm...@te...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:29:33 +0100
> "Manuel Carrasco" <man...@us...> wrote:
>
> > Hello Myles
>
> Hello! It's been a while since we corresponded, good to hear from you.
>
> > Finally I've released lxp with:
> > 1.- A new program in perl to generate system menus. This will replace
> > icewm-menu-gnome2.
> > 2.- A script to allow the user to select her favorite desktop (idesk,
> > xfdesktop, kdesktop or nautilus).
> > 3.- Support for .deb distributions
> > 3.- Other minor fixes
>
> Sounds like you've been pretty busy :-) You know, your timing is
> *perfect*!! Believe it or not I had just finished a net-install of Debian
> Etch when I got your email. Unfortunately it took me a little longer to
> restore all my files/applications than I thought it would. I just
> downloaded the .deb files a few minutes ago, installed them and I'm
> currently using LXP.
>
> > I'd like you try this release and comment it.
> > Thank you very much for your suggestions
> >
> > Manuel Carrasco
>
> Well, I've only been logged into LXP for about 5 minutes so far but I
> definitely like what I'm seeing!! Very much indeed.
>
> The new menu is awesome, every entry (and there are tons of them...) has
> an
> icon and so far I haven't found any entries that 'don't work'. I'm not
> going to try them all as I would be here all night clicking on menu
> entries.
> I've just now spent about 10 minutes going though the menu starting
> applications and switching themes back and forth with nothing bad
> happening. Nice work.
>
> I'll keep 'torture testing' LXP on Debian Etch for the next few days but I
> think it will be pretty safe to say it's been tested under Debian as well
> as Ubuntu/Xubuntu and Fedora Core 5 (I've tested it myself on those
> distros).
>
> Switching between idesk, nautilus and 'none' works well - I haven't
> installed Xfce yet but that should be completed pretty soon so I'll be
> able
> to play around some more <grin>. Would it be possible to add rox-filer to
> the already impressive list of possible desktops? I know there are a lot
> of
> people using Rox with Icewm so it might be a good idea to add it to the
> list. I'm going to be busy for most of tomorrow (Thursday) but I should be
> able to look through the configs later in the day and maybe I can hack out
> a patch to include Rox... we'll see :-)
>
> Anyway, thank you for your attention to detail(s) and for bringing LXP
> into
> this world, it's a very useful project. Have you thought about getting a
> PayPal account and/or setting up a bank account so that people could make
> donations to the project? I looked around the site but didn't see
> anything...
>
> Thanks again,
> Myles
> --
> Myles Green
> Geek by nature. Linux by choice.
> "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
> It's already tomorrow in Australia" (Charles Schultz)
>
>
>