Re: Quirks with ROX on Xubuntu 11.10

In article <[email protected]>,
Stephen
Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jim Lesurf <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
> > If by 'menu' you mean the right-button on the mouse, then, yes, that
> > does pop up a menu which includes "Panel Options...".
> > 
> > But if I click on that, nothing happens (apart from the menu that
> > offerred it vanishing again). Nothing appears that would let me set
> > any actual options, etc.

> Something's broken then, you should get an options window.

Yes, agreed. Now all I have to do is fix or work around it! :-)

I've put a grab of a section of the icon bar up at

http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/oddbar.png 

That shows the icons I've placed at the left had end of the panel.

The first four, starting from the far left, are directories. These
initially appeared as you'd expect with the 'blue folder' icon that 'Apps'
still has. But I've used the item option to add an icon for ones like
'media' and 'ROXapps'.

The rest are icons for firefox, VLC, audiacious, WAVchopper, and soxflac.
I've not yet created a directory icon for the soxflac app.

As you can see, the first four have the text under the icons, but the
others don't. This is what is puzzling me.

Now it may just be that the first ones have smaller icons. But I thought
I'd kept the icons down to a reasonable size, and all is well on older
distros.

However, my first thought (as mentioned in my initial email) was that icon
size is the cause, but this distro version has broken the ability to fix
that by having a larger icon bar panel.

But an alternative occurs to me looking at the fact that some items *do*
have the text. Maybe this depends on the route by which the icon is given
to the item on the panel. And what is broken is that having the icon in the
app directory upsets the text being displayed as well. I'll do some tests
and report.

But can someone say, where does ROX store the value that specifies the size
of the panel? As yet I've not found it.

And has anyone else reading this been using Xubuntu 11.10 and either had,
or not had, this problem?

Cheers,

Jim

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