Re: [rox-devel] OroboROX Window Manager and ROX-Session

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:32:53PM +0100, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:16:56 +0200
> Guido Schimmels <gu...@ar...> wrote:
> 
> > Please try OroboROX and tell me what you think!
> >  It would give us the chance to offer a complete package like Gnome
> >  and  Xfce do. Or inform me if you don't have such ambitions!
> 
> How is it supposed to be started by ROX-Session?
> (Entering the full path to the AppRun script in the WM combobox works,
> but it's kind of ugly...) ROX-Session should handle AppDirs and DnD to
> choose WM, and maybe a button to open your favorite editor on the file
> that lists the WM's shown in the combobox... 

DnD (and editor windows) are difficult to use if you haven't got a window
manager running, though. The easy solution is to just add
/uri/0install/rox.sourceforge.net/apps/OroboROX to the ROX-Session menu
though.

For a complete 'ROX desktop' bundle, you'd just default it to that, of
course, and the user wouldn't even see the box at first login.

I think a pre-configured bundle is a great idea, as long as other people
are free to make other bundles. One of the aims for the zero install stuff
is to make this easy: have a session script which sticks
/uri/0install/my.site/config in XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and runs ROX-Session and
everything gets the setup that my.site wanted, complete with default
panels, etc.

> What are the plans on making the options available in a GUI?

Long term? Store the options with:

	http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/config-spec

Use ROX-Lib's OptionsBox for the GUI. Eventually, I'd remove the C
versions of the options box from the filer and ROX-Session and get them to
call Python sub-programs to edit the options.

The non-session-specific options in ROX-Session (Display, Mouse, etc)
would become a set of separate applications entirely.


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