Hi,
I'm trying to use Ion 3 with ROX[1], and fixing a few problems as I go
(we're missing transient-for in places, etc... oops!).
One minor issue I noticed is that the dock has a 1 pixel border by
default. Normally, to run something in ROX's panel you just whack the
pointer in the general direction of the screen edge and click, but with
the border gap that doesn't work.
Perhaps the style below could be added to the default theme to change that?
de.defstyle("stdisp", {
padding_pixels = 0,
})
Thanks,
BTW, I noticed this in the not-a-blog:
"The middlemen known as “distributions” have effective control over the
software that people install. Authors can not hope to compete with the
juggernaut distributions' easily installable packages, the only practical
method for them to distribute their software being laboursome source
packages that users must hunt down from the Web. [...] They provide old
buggy versions and even out-dated development snapshots for years without
prominent version qualifiers, and expect the author to deal with the
users having problems with the bugs and incompatibilities in these
versions."
I used to have exactly the same problems with ROX-Filer, but now I just
provide a Zero Install[2] feed for it. On most modern Linux distributions
(including Ubuntu and Fedora), any user can just do:
$ 0alias rox http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/ROX-Filer
Then they can run it with the command 'rox'. It gets the latest binary
version from my site, checks the signature using my GPG key and installs
it. It also checks for updates from time-to-time. Have you thought of
providing Ion that way?
[1] http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/rox_with_ion
[2] http://0install.net (and yes, I wrote it so I'm biased)
--
Dr Thomas Leonard http://rox.sourceforge.net
GPG: 9242 9807 C985 3C07 44A6 8B9A AE07 8280 59A5 3CC1
