Re: Matchbox and smartphone

Hi;

on Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:37:29PM +0800, Jeffery Huang wrote:
> Thanks for your quick reply.
> 1. About Tab View => Here now in matchbox, all applications are put 
> classify in different folder and show in a window like file manager.  We 
> just deliver another idea to show the applications in different class.  
> We think the best practice is Trolltech - Qtopia pda edition.

Okey. matchbox-desktop currently has no support for this but it could
be modified to do this kind of thing. Alternatively you could hack
your own 'desktop' from scratch - matchbox-wm will work fine with
other desktops.

> 2. Your manual got some help, we not only bind key, but also want to 
> show on the screen.
> Do you know about M$ wince smartphone edition?  It will show 2 button at 
> the bottom of screen.  These 2 buttons function may be "home" - "Menu" 
> or "OK" - "Cancel" which can be defined by the active application.
> 

Sounds like you need to write your own panel application ( or possibly
even panel applets to do this kind of thing ).

> If we want to do these features, does it possible?  How do we start?  We 
> deeply appriciate any comment or suggestions.
> 

Its definetly possible. The first place to start would be looking at
how the matchbox source does similar stuff. If practically possible Id
advise using a gui toolkit rather than raw xlib.

  -- Matthew