Hi everyone. I felt I should point out that having icons show on the desktop the way gnome,xfce,windows etc do
often results in cluttered, ugly and impractical desktop experience. KDE4 seems to have found a way around it with plasma desktop, but still maybe there's a better solution. since you're thinking of implementing it, why not innovate? 2010/8/13 PCMan <[email protected]> > This one is my original plan. > However the problem is not how to store it. > This is easy. > The problem is how to handle the UI part. > If you sort items by name, how should a item with custom position behave? > If you have a newly added item, where should it be placed? > If the screen gets resized, how should the icons be placed? > If the font or icon sizes get changed, how should the icons be placed? > If we want to add icons for newly added devices, where should they be > placed? > I thought of these problems for quite a long time, and haven't found a > better way to do it yet. > These UI problems are not going to be solved either by GKeyFile or css. > > Any suggestions? > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Neil Graham <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:50:52 -0400, Marty Jack wrote: > > > >> That's the cleanest idea about how to do this I've seen in a long while. > >> Make it like css but be very selective about how many knobs to have. I > >> like it a lot. > > > > In that case I would recommend going with > > > > [silly-walks.jpg] > > left=10px > > right=100px > > top=50% > > bottom=20% > > width=64px > > height=64px > > background-color=#aaa > > > > Which would work with > http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Key- > > value-file-parser.html > > > > Which pcmanfm already uses. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > > > Make an app they can't live without > > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > > Lxde-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list >
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