On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:08:11 +0200 Thanatermesis <thanatermesis.e...@gmail.com> said:
> Ok I don't have read the code to know how exactly works internally but what > I see (and my experience) is that: > > When you drag an icon to your bar, it creates a entire new .desktop file to > your .local directory with totally new values, some set by the user and some > "automatic", but most of times they simply doesn't works (bad values), I > have see a lot of different cases, most of them are applications that > doesn't launch, applications that can't be added (when inserted to the bar, > nothing appears), wrong/null icon, etc... doesn't happen. i just dragged the gacltool icon from the calc window to ibar. before: 5:32PM ~/.local/share/applications > ls total 68K 4.0K audacious.desktop 4.0K start_nm.desktop 4.0K blender-fullscreen.desktop 4.0K start_xdpms.desktop 4.0K blender-windowed.desktop 4.0K start_xfonts.desktop 4.0K claws-mail.desktop 4.0K start_xmodmap.desktop 4.0K firefox.desktop 4.0K start_xmouse.desktop 4.0K rage-gl.desktop 4.0K start_xrdb.desktop 4.0K rage.desktop 4.0K sylpheed.desktop 4.0K start_alsa.desktop 4.0K xterm.desktop 4.0K start_gnome-settings-daemon.desktop after: 5:32PM ~/.local/share/applications > ls total 68K 4.0K audacious.desktop 4.0K start_nm.desktop 4.0K blender-fullscreen.desktop 4.0K start_xdpms.desktop 4.0K blender-windowed.desktop 4.0K start_xfonts.desktop 4.0K claws-mail.desktop 4.0K start_xmodmap.desktop 4.0K firefox.desktop 4.0K start_xmouse.desktop 4.0K rage-gl.desktop 4.0K start_xrdb.desktop 4.0K rage.desktop 4.0K sylpheed.desktop 4.0K start_alsa.desktop 4.0K xterm.desktop 4.0K start_gnome-settings-daemon.desktop the same. no change. so this doesn't happen. :/ well not in this test case > My thoughts are: if there's already an existing .desktop file, original, > good-made, with the correct data on it, with full of translations, with the > correct executable and parameters... why WTF we are going to change them to > something from scratch, bad-auto-detected, and mostly-wrong ?, could be > interesting that the user will modify manually some values, that YES... but > only the ones modified by him! and the rest will remain untouched. > > Like I say, this gives a lot of problems (just try to drag-n-drop a bunch of > 10-20 applications to your bar and check all of them (icon image that not > works as before, lost translations, wrong executable command set, wrong > parameters of the executable, wmclass changed, error-prone values, big > etc...) > > There's also two reports by me from long time ago: > > http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/ticket/365 > http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/ticket/357 > > > > Thanatermesis > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
