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

[Myles G. <rm...@te...>]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:05:25 +0100
Jean Ackle <jda...@ya...> wrote:

> Congratulations for a great job to all the developers of lxp!
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> It looks good, feels a lot better than the original ice-wm and
> overall provides a much pleasant experience!
> Well done! :-)

Thanks! We're glad you are enjoying it.

> Now the questions:
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> First off, I'm using Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS Dapper Drake...
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> 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=20
> 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)

Right, this is caused by the icons being a size other than 32x32. If
you use The GIMP to re-size these icons then you will end up with a
transparent background for the icons in question. [ NB: The main (root)
menu uses 32x32 icons, the taskbar and sub-menus use 16x16 icons.]

> 2. I'm using the ROX-Desktop which poses two questions:
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> 2.1. If I select it from the "Switch desktop" tray-applet, I'll get a=20
> default, almost blank ROX desktop, whereas if I invoke it with
> "-p=3Djean" 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... :-(

Take a look at /usr/bin/lxp-switch-desktop (it's a script not a binary)
and you will be able to edit it so it calls ROX the way you want.
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> 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.

/usr/share/lxp-icewm/themes/LookXP-Human/wallpaper.png

> Also, in plain ol' icewm, I used to just shut down icewmbg as it was=20
> 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...

Have you checked to see if lxp-icewmbg is actually running? You can do
that by entering the following command in an xterm:=20

ps ax | grep icewmbg

and it should show you that it (lxp-icewmbg) isn't running. Once it
sets the background image it exits. You can lessen the amount of RAM
being used by converting 'wallpaper.png' into a JPeg image (GIMP is
your friend ;-) ) and modifying the entry for the background in=20
/usr/share/lxp-icewm/themes/LookXP-Human/default.theme, it's near the
bottom in the 'Desktop' section. Of course, you need to be root (or use
the sudo command) in order to make these changes :-)


> For the translations' offer:
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> 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=20
> 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=20
> quite busy for me...

You could do the translations and post them here so one of us can add
them to the packages.

On behalf of the team I'd like to thank you for your kind words and
your contribution to the translations. I hope I was able to answer your
questions adequately enough for you to "tweak" LXP to suit your
desires.

Regards, Myles
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Myles