Re: [rox-devel] Pinboard (fwd)

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

[ I'm getting a bit confused about which of these messages actually
appeared on the list. Sorry if anyone gets this twice! ]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 da...@da... wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:46:13PM +0100, Thomas Leonard wrote:

[ removing panel support ]

> > This gives a saving of 2880 bytes (1.73% off of the original).
> 
> Hmm...I'm surprised it's so little.  OK, I guess I can't accuse you of
> bloat :)
> 
> BTW, what compiler are you using?  I get an executable of 180,244
> bytes.

egcs-2.91.66 (unless someone's upgraded since I did my tests).

> > Edit, which is about as minimal as you can get (Pinboard and Iconbar would
> > be larger), has a stripped executable size of 23,852 bytes.
> > 
> > How many people would want to use Pinboard support? For those who want
> > it, having it in the filer is faster and smaller; for those who don't it
> > is a waste of several K.
> 
> I would like to replace gmc with ROX-Filer, and adding pinboard support
> would be one of the last things I'd need for that to happen.  The other
> way is for a translator which will take the gmc file associations and
> put them in Choices format.

Pinboard support is coming along quite well. I've committed the latest
version to CVS now.

The way it works is that you run the filer as, eg:

	$ ROX-Filer/AppRun --pinboard MyPinboard

This makes the background receptive to drops. You drop some files onto it
and the filer creates a file called <Choices>/ROX-Filer/pb_MyPinboard
with their positions and paths. This will be automatically loaded the next
time you use '--pinboard MyPinboard' to invoke it.

Still needs a bit of work, but I'm quite pleased with it so far. Drag
icons with Adjust to move them. Click with Menu to remove them (it'll
popup a menu eventually, of course).


PS: My new email address is:
	ta...@us... 

The one at soton will stop working in a few days.


Thomas Leonard
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ta...@us...
3rd year computer science
The ROX desktop (free/GPL) : http://rox.sourceforge.net