[Lxp-users] Congratulations on LXP + a couple questions/comments + offer to translate to Portuguese and French

[Jean A. <jda...@ya...>]

Congratulations for a great job to all the developers of lxp!

It looks good, feels a lot better than the original ice-wm and overall 
provides a much pleasant experience!
Well done! :-)


Now the questions:

First off, I'm using Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS Dapper Drake...

1. Both my Thunderbird and my Pidgin apps are local installs, not from 
.deb packages, thus installed in /usr/local.
For that I had to add a few paths to the icon-path list - no prob with 
that. BUT as you can see in the attached picture, the icons for those 
apps do not include their "transparency", i.e., they have a "boxed" 
background color around them, which BTW does not happen with the icons 
for the same apps in the toolbar./usr/local/thunderbird/icons/mozicon50.xpm
I'm guessing the concerned icons are:
* /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/50x50/apps/thunderbird.xpm (symlink 
pointing to /usr/local/thunderbird/icons/mozicon50.xpm)
* /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/pidgin.svg (this is the 
automatically selected one as, before I added the scalable version of 
the Pidgin icon, I could get no icon for it at all)

2. I'm using the ROX-Desktop which poses two questions:

2.1. If I select it from the "Switch desktop" tray-applet, I'll get a 
default, almost blank ROX desktop, whereas if I invoke it with "-p=jean" 
it will then load that particular pinboard which I had already 
previously setup.
Is it possible to edit how (with what command-line like option) will the 
"Switch desktop" applet call ROX? How?
I currently have ROX running from the ~/.lxp-icewm/startup file I copied 
from ~/.icewm so this is not an actual problem for me but it does 
diminish that great applet's usefulness... :-(

2.2. ROX is taking over the desktop background (as it always does even 
if you don't set it up to load any image or color) but I kind of like 
the background lxp comes with. Only... I could not find where it is 
located (so I can use it with ROX). Even issuing "dpkg -L lxp" and "dpkg 
-L lxp-icewm" gave me nothing to work with.
Also, in plain ol' icewm, I used to just shut down icewmbg as it was 
doing nothing useful anyway. But when I do that in lxp and without the 
ROX desktop... I get that exact same lxp background! So I guess you're 
loading it in some other way...? Would be nice to be able to free up the 
memory used by it if needed...


For the translations' offer:

I've seen of your sourceforge.net page lxp is presently translated only 
to English and Spanish.
I can translate it to Portuguese and French too if you like.
Nontheless, I have experience in translating applications only with 
Firefox (to pt-PT) and by that I mean receiving HTML and XML files and 
returning the messages in there translated. I have no real experience 
with say gettext or whatever you use (I've spontaneously done one small 
one a while back for a very small project - the developper never came 
back to me or, that I'm aware of, used it).
Also... Not sure in what time I can do it - this month's going to be 
quite busy for me...


Cheers!
Jean Ackle