Re: Matchbox 0.5rc1

on Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 09:23:41PM -0800, Hartman Darrick wrote:
> Looks like some nice progress has been made since 0.2.
>
Yes hopefully, 0.2 was a long time ago ;-) 
 
> Does matchbox handle shaped windows properly yet?  I'm
> mostly concerned with gmplayer and xmms.  I know that
> those are two apps that I use that are not optimal
> full screen all the time.  The control deal for
> gmplayer needs to stay somewhere that is visible...at
> least in the same tab.  All xmms stuff should be in
> one tab as well.
> 
Yes, I pretty sure at least xmms should now work ok ( I dont know
of gmplayer ), how usable they'll be is another matter ... The kind of
windows they like to use and how matchbox is designed to work kind of
clash. 

It may be working checking out something like gpe-nmf media player
which is designed to work in a matchbox toolbar window and I think is
what you want - you can get it from GPE cvs at handhelds.org. 

> I see some great potential for use on smaller laptops
> as well as the PDAs. 
> 
> Damn the icons are small on a 1024x768 screen.  I know
> that's not the intended use and I'm pretty sure it can
> be configured.  I just didn't dig into it too much
> yet.
> 

Agreed, Id even go as far as saying they look small on a 640x480
display. But fear not, Im working on implemeneting scaling in the
panel apps to fix this kind of problem, especially with PDA's now
emerging with 640x480 displays.

Also it worth noting, if you didn't already know, the GNOME2 and KDE3
panels work fine under matchbox as does any other freedesktop.org
panel such as fspanel. 

  -- Matthew