Re: [kde] Wrap Firefox in KDE app?
If I understand your question correctly, a custum .desktop file should do. You can make that in a graphical way using kmenuedit. - Support software for non profit, buy Android phones. On Oct 26, 2012 9:19 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to use different icons for each Firefox profile. Firefox does not seem to support this, but all KDE applications support by default the --icon flag. Is there a simple way to wrap a launcher to a specific Firefox profile in a KDE application so that it might be possible to change the icon? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Wrap Firefox in KDE app?
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Dotan Cohen posted on Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:47:32 +0200 as excerpted: I would like to use different icons for each Firefox profile. Firefox does not seem to support this, but all KDE applications support by default the --icon flag. Is there a simple way to wrap a launcher to a specific Firefox profile in a KDE application so that it might be possible to change the icon? Very interesting question! I don't know the answer for sure, but your question triggered a memory of a kde executable I'd seen, which looks quite promising. Please try the below and see if it does what you need, then report back, as you have me curious too, now. =:^) kstart [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] command Of course it has the usual kde-app --help, --help-kde --help-qt --help- all options, which you'd need to look at to see if it can do what you need. As I said a quick look looks promising, but you'll have to look closer than I did and probably actually try it, to be sure. Thank you Duncan. Here is what I have found: This starts Firefox with the regular Firefox icon: $ kstart --icon /home/dotancohen/icon.png /usr/bin/firefox -profilemanager -no-remote This starts Dolphin with the regular Dolphin icon: $ kstart --icon /home/dotancohen/icon.png dolphin However, this does start Dolphin with the requested icon: $ dolphin --icon /home/dotancohen/icon.png This starts Konqueror with the regular Konqueror icon: $ kstart --icon /home/dotancohen/icon.png konqueror Alas, this starts Konqueror with the regular Konqueror icon: $ konqueror --icon /home/dotancohen/icon.png I then tried Konqueror again both ways with the preloaded option disabled, after killing all the running instances that ps showed. Same result: Konqueror even when not preloaded refuses to use any other icon in the task bar. That is actually what I expected considering the fact that the following Konqueror bug has remained unresolved: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154415 So it seems that --icon is only a suggestion and that the application can freely ignore it. Even worse, it seems that kstart does not support the --icon flag anyway. The other alternative, which should work anywhere a *.desktop-based file is the basis for launching (including the kickoff apps menu and many icon- based launchers), /is/ a *.desktop file (or menu entry based on one). This has the advantage of being a freedesktop.org standard, so should work in DEs other than kde, as well, but won't work where *.desktop file isn't used. The key here would be to use firefox's -P profile option as the command, not simply firefox, and to set a custom icon as desired. You'd then clone that launcher item multiple times, changing the profile and icon for each one. Thanks. This does in fact change the icon of the launcher, but the application launched still has the regular Firefox icon in the taskbar! I'd guess one or the other of these solutions should work. Maybe both, in which case you can take your pick. =:^) No, neither worked but I did learn a bit! Thanks, though. I do appreciate the detailed missive, even if it took me a few days to get around to it. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Wrap Firefox in KDE app?
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:06 PM, dE . de.tec...@gmail.com wrote: If I understand your question correctly, a custum .desktop file should do. You can make that in a graphical way using kmenuedit. Thanks. I just tried as per Duncan's suggestion. In fact, only the launcher icon changes, not the taskbar icon. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Wrap Firefox in KDE app?
On Wednesday, 2012-10-31, Dotan Cohen wrote: So it seems that --icon is only a suggestion and that the application can freely ignore it. Even worse, it seems that kstart does not support the --icon flag anyway. My guess for the latter is that kstart --icon refers to the icon kstart itself would use (kstart most likely being a KDE application, hence the option shared with other KDE apps). Since kstart exits very quickly, its icon is never visible. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Wrap Firefox in KDE app?
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: My guess for the latter is that kstart --icon refers to the icon kstart itself would use (kstart most likely being a KDE application, hence the option shared with other KDE apps). Since kstart exits very quickly, its icon is never visible. Sounds reasonable. Is there any way to wrap firefox in a KDE application that will show an icon of the user's choosing? KDE 3's taskbar would let the user set a custom icon per application, but we don't have that in KDE4. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Wrap Firefox in KDE app?
On Wednesday, 2012-10-31, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: My guess for the latter is that kstart --icon refers to the icon kstart itself would use (kstart most likely being a KDE application, hence the option shared with other KDE apps). Since kstart exits very quickly, its icon is never visible. Sounds reasonable. Is there any way to wrap firefox in a KDE application that will show an icon of the user's choosing? KDE 3's taskbar would let the user set a custom icon per application, but we don't have that in KDE4. Unfortunately I have no idea, sorry. Maybe a feature request for some workspace component (KWin probably, sounds a bit like what its window rules could do). Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Wrap Firefox in KDE app?
Dotan Cohen posted on Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:47:32 +0200 as excerpted: I would like to use different icons for each Firefox profile. Firefox does not seem to support this, but all KDE applications support by default the --icon flag. Is there a simple way to wrap a launcher to a specific Firefox profile in a KDE application so that it might be possible to change the icon? Very interesting question! I don't know the answer for sure, but your question triggered a memory of a kde executable I'd seen, which looks quite promising. Please try the below and see if it does what you need, then report back, as you have me curious too, now. =:^) kstart [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] command Of course it has the usual kde-app --help, --help-kde --help-qt --help- all options, which you'd need to look at to see if it can do what you need. As I said a quick look looks promising, but you'll have to look closer than I did and probably actually try it, to be sure. The other alternative, which should work anywhere a *.desktop-based file is the basis for launching (including the kickoff apps menu and many icon- based launchers), /is/ a *.desktop file (or menu entry based on one). This has the advantage of being a freedesktop.org standard, so should work in DEs other than kde, as well, but won't work where *.desktop file isn't used. The key here would be to use firefox's -P profile option as the command, not simply firefox, and to set a custom icon as desired. You'd then clone that launcher item multiple times, changing the profile and icon for each one. I'd guess one or the other of these solutions should work. Maybe both, in which case you can take your pick. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
