pinboard
Benjamin Rich <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:01:00 +1100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.xfce.devel |
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This is probably an old question, but I'm still wondering when XFCE might have it's own pinboard app? xfce.org seems to recommend using ROX-Filer or some other pinboard in the mean time, but Rox just barely cuts the mustard - it's file manager is annoying, you can't define the size of it's pinboard, and so on. The only thing which makes it bearable is that a patch either to XFCE or ROX recently now means that applications on the pinboard aren't bound to their desktops of origin. So, an application minimized to the pinboard in say, desktop 1 (if you're using 5 or 6 virtual desktops, as I do) will maximize again when you click on it in desktop 3, without going back to desktop 1 instead. It seems odd that the two features in XFCE which are most needed to make it complete, and also a true functional mirror of the original CDE, are the very packages that aren't being released - session manager and pinboard. The session manager is easily stable enough (I've been using it from source since 0.1.1) but remains constantly masked in the portage tree in gentoo (and unavailable elsewhere) - and of course there seems to be no pinboard app at all. Are there any plans to finally release a pinboard component for XFCE? Even a simple copy+paste of the ROX-Filer code, with some tweaks to make the icon size and placing boundries a little more bearable, I think would be a perfect start. Nay, I shall even attempt to write this particular component if anybody's with me on the notion. So, anybody with me? -Ben