Re: xDesk opinions?

Hale, Paul wrote:
> Hey all, I wa considering adding this module to my current theme, but
> was curious about a few things before I put any effort into it.
>  
> Has anyone tried the colorizing of wallpapers yet? Is there a
> performance hit when using it? I remember playing around with ghosted
> xlabels for the same effect and it really slowed things down. * see
> below


I noticed a funny side effect when I had wallpaper coloring on; when I moved a 
window with positioning commands (i.e., instantaneous, as opposed to dragging 
it), I'd end up with more than one copy of the window on my screen for a short 
time. IOW, there'd be a ghost window that wasn't erased until after the new one 
had been drawn. I suspect the same thing goes on when dragging a window, it's 
just less noticeable - and probably depends on your graphics card and how fast 
your PC is. Without the wallpaper colorization there was no visible lag.


> There seems to be some importance in the "ondrop" event. Other than
> making shortcuts, what good is this feature?


Well, you can simulate dragging files onto the desktop I suppose, just like in 
good ol' windoze.


> Also, do jDesk settings in the personal.rc interfere at all with this
> module?

Nope, the settings all have different names, so there aren't any conflicts, at 
last not that I've noticed.

I also found that my menus worked better if I triggered them on the "up" events; 
if they appeared on the down events, I'd often trigger the action associated 
with that button on the popup, too. For example, when I triggered my standard 
right-click menu on the down event, it would simultaneously "shade" the menu, 
because the menu got the right-click event also. Changing the menus to appear on 
  "ClickUp" instead made that problem go away.

I've got it set up so that I can control-middle-click and/or scroll to mute or 
change the volume. Works great for me. Here's my current "click" config:

  ;--- Mouse actions

  *xDeskOnLeftClickUp	.shift	!PopupTheme
  *xDeskOnLeftClickUp	.ctrl	!PopupTasks

  *xDeskOnRightClickUp	.none	!Popup
  *xDeskOnRightClickUp	.shift	!PopupModuleDocs
  *xDeskOnRightClickUp	.ctrl	!PopupMyShortcuts

  *xDeskOnMiddleClickUp	.shift	!execute [$filemanager$ $Desktop$]

  *xDeskOnMiddleClickUp	.ctrl	!umsliderMute 0
  *xDeskOnWheelUp	.ctrl	!umsliderVolumeUp 0
  *xDeskOnWheelDown	.ctrl	!umsliderVolumeDown 0


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