Re: Vista System tray implementation

Maybe worth a call out to the community to do the packaging/comms 
allowing you to code?

Richard :: Galois

Karl-Henrik Henriksson [qwilk] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> it appears both Carsomyr and the LSDev guys have put a lot of time and 
> effort into Windows Vista/64-bit/7 compatibility, and it would 
> arguably be quite foolish if us other GPL'd shells would not take 
> advantage of that hard work and simply reinventing/rediscovering the 
> wheel one more time. After all, sharing knowledge is what open source 
> is all about. But let's say one of us would use some of this 
> information (not necessarily the code as such) in our respective 
> shells - how would you like the credits? Would sufficiently thorough 
> credits in the history/changes.txt be enough or do you want big fat 
> copyright notices all over the place? ;)
>
> Neil Santos: "Yeah, I'm still alive.  Just buried in work and 
> fatherhood. :D"
> Heh, yeah, that is something I can relate to for sure - having 
> children and lots of work doesn't exactly do wonders for your 
> commitment to open source projects! ;) In fact, my last official core 
> release was xoblite bb3 RC1 way back in December 2005 (!), and even 
> though I've worked quite a lot on the upcoming xoblite bb4 since then 
> I must admit I'm having a really hard time finding the energy to do 
> the more boring stuff these days - wrapping up official releases, 
> updating documentation and the website, full fledged support etc... Or 
> maybe I just enjoy the pure thrill of coding too much? ;)
>
> BR//Karl -> qwilk a.k.a. xoblite
>
> ----------
>
>> Carsomyr,
>>
>> You may already be aware that some vista-related development is
>> progressing with Litestep, but in case you aren't -- the changelog
>> from the latest alpha includes some systray stuff:
>>
>> VISTA & 64-BIT SUPPORT (& Server 2008)
>> - Running on Windows Vista and 64-Bit Windows now officially supported
>> - Fixed startup folder items running twice on Windows Vista
>> - Fixed startup detection on Vista
>> - Added playing of logon sound
>> - Fixed logon screen delay
>> - Fixed wallpaper not appearing
>> - Fixed loading of SSOs on Vista
>>   - Enables the new Alt-Tab replacement
>>   - Fixes lots of system tray icons (network, volume control, ...)
>> - Fixed tray icon tooltips not showing up
>> - Fixed AppBar support
>> - Fixed LiteStep only launching 32-Bit versions of applications
>>   - Modules must use LSExecute(Ex) instead of ShellExecute
>>     to take advantage of this
>> - Fixed $quicklaunch$ not picking up folder path customization
>> - Fixed OS detection for !about and OS variables such as $WinVista$
>> - Fixed !shutdown crashing LiteStep on Vista
>>
>> Source code can be found at http://www.lsdev.org
>>
>> I'm not a programmer, but I'm sure ilmcuts can shed more light - I
>> think he's still on this list.
>>
>> Ravi
>>
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