On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 at 9:42:05 -0700, Iain Patterson wrote: > Quoth Carlos R. Mafra, > >The patches are going to be applied, they are very cool and have > >a lot of potential. > > Ironically I have been a little counterproductive to myself > (hopefully not to users in general) with this work. > > I like Window Maker for many reasons but its use of app icons is > not among them. I don't like icons on my desktop and I just find > they get in the way. On my (small screen) laptop I have no dock and > the icons set to 24x24 arranged at the top of the screen. I then > run xfce4-panel set to a height 24 at the top and it covers the > icons. By setting "don't cover icons" I could ensure that > maximisation didn't clash with the panel and I'd never have to see > them again. > > My desktop has normal 64x64 icons down the side of the screen > where I can mostly ignore them. I found that windows would try to > place under the panel, which was annoying. Now with partial strut > support the panel is protected and life is good on the desktop. > Back on the laptop the icons now refuse to hide under the panel > because they respect its strut. > > I can think of two possible solutions. Either add a preference to > make icons ignore struts and go wherever they like or add a > preference to refrain from placing icons at all. Does anyone else > share my dislike of desktop clutter and have an opinion either way?
I don't remember what happened to the patch in that thread, but take a look at how to disable appicons here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.devel/1209/match=option+disable+application+icons -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
