[debian] e and illume: how to configure launcher icons?
i'm just checking out enlightenment with illume theme and am very confused about the icons shown on the desktop (launcher). i am sure there has to be a setting where the apps to be listed are selectebale -- and yet, in the rather confusing settings (top shelf - wrench) i don't find anything. so far i've seen that apparently ~/.e/e/appshadow/ contains everything displayed -- but that folder is populated with links from /usr/share/applications/, which strikes me as rather odd, and is recretated everytime e crashes or is restarted, thereby removing _any_ loacl change, with is not longer odd but inacceptable. tapping and holding on the desktop's background doesn't either offer any possibility to configure the launcher's content. so, where does one do that? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [debian] e and illume: how to configure launcher icons?
I'm pretty sure Illume does not have support for categories or the ability to hide apps (especially not through a menu). Workarounds: If you delete the .desktop file from /usr/share/applications/, it won't be displayed. If your .desktop file doesn't contain Type=Application, I don't think it'll be displayed. -Steven On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:43 AM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: i'm just checking out enlightenment with illume theme and am very confused about the icons shown on the desktop (launcher). i am sure there has to be a setting where the apps to be listed are selectebale -- and yet, in the rather confusing settings (top shelf - wrench) i don't find anything. so far i've seen that apparently ~/.e/e/appshadow/ contains everything displayed -- but that folder is populated with links from /usr/share/applications/, which strikes me as rather odd, and is recretated everytime e crashes or is restarted, thereby removing _any_ loacl change, with is not longer odd but inacceptable. tapping and holding on the desktop's background doesn't either offer any possibility to configure the launcher's content. so, where does one do that? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [debian] e and illume: how to configure launcher icons?
I'm pretty sure Illume does not have support for categories or the ability to hide apps (especially not through a menu). Workarounds: If you delete the .desktop file from /usr/share/applications/, it won't be displayed. If your .desktop file doesn't contain Type=Application, I don't think it'll be displayed. i remember distinctly a dialog popping up first time with a listing of apps and a checkbox for every app, to enable it. can't get to that dialog again. additionally: i want to add my very own apps to the launcher -- and that as _normal_ user. since linux is a _multiuser_ operating system with separation of rights, it's unreasonable to expect _normal_ users to create/modify _global_ files (which the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ are). ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [debian] e and illume: how to configure launcher icons?
On Thursday 24 September 2009, arne anka wrote: I'm pretty sure Illume does not have support for categories or the ability to hide apps (especially not through a menu). Workarounds: If you delete the .desktop file from /usr/share/applications/, it won't be displayed. If your .desktop file doesn't contain Type=Application, I don't think it'll be displayed. i remember distinctly a dialog popping up first time with a listing of apps and a checkbox for every app, to enable it. can't get to that dialog again. additionally: i want to add my very own apps to the launcher -- and that as _normal_ user. since linux is a _multiuser_ operating system with separation of rights, it's unreasonable to expect _normal_ users to create/modify _global_ files (which the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ are). I think that selection dialog is for the enlightenment menu or something. It has no effect on what apps appear on the illume launcher as far as I can tell. The illume launcher is rather lacking in functionality as you have found. I'm sure Raster will gladly accept patches to improve the situation, but afaik nobody has written any. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [debian] e and illume: how to configure launcher icons?
I think that selection dialog is for the enlightenment menu or something. It has no effect on what apps appear on the illume launcher as far as I can tell. uhm. what exactly is the relationship between e and illume? i always thought they were an item, so to speak. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [debian] e and illume: how to configure launcher icons?
i think that illume is a plugin (extension) of e. just a sort of preset of e for small screens. d On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:35 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: I think that selection dialog is for the enlightenment menu or something. It has no effect on what apps appear on the illume launcher as far as I can tell. uhm. what exactly is the relationship between e and illume? i always thought they were an item, so to speak. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [debian] e and illume: how to configure launcher icons?
so, where does one do that? There is a way, although it is a bit hacky. Or at least requires some typing :). E supports xdg menu spec [1]. In that spec, menu is constructed using data from individual .desktop files under /usr/share/applications/. However, this process is controlled by definitions in a single menu file, residing in /etc/xdg/menus. Which menu definition file to use, E asks you at first start. Remenber that debian-menu vs enlightenment-applications question? You my not use any of these two, but write your own one. It is in XML, and syntax allows you to include or exclude categories or individual menu items. For example, mine has Exclude Filenameopenmoko-panel-plugin.desktop/Filename /Exclude line. [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [debian] e and illume: how to configure launcher icons?
Exclude Filenameopenmoko-panel-plugin.desktop/Filename /Exclude line. [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html ookaaay. sounds, hm, usable :-) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [debian] e and illume: how to configure launcher icons?
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:28:26 +0100 Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk said: On Thursday 24 September 2009, arne anka wrote: I'm pretty sure Illume does not have support for categories or the ability to hide apps (especially not through a menu). Workarounds: If you delete the .desktop file from /usr/share/applications/, it won't be displayed. If your .desktop file doesn't contain Type=Application, I don't think it'll be displayed. i remember distinctly a dialog popping up first time with a listing of apps and a checkbox for every app, to enable it. can't get to that dialog again. additionally: i want to add my very own apps to the launcher -- and that as _normal_ user. since linux is a _multiuser_ operating system with separation of rights, it's unreasonable to expect _normal_ users to create/modify _global_ files (which the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ are). I think that selection dialog is for the enlightenment menu or something. It has no effect on what apps appear on the illume launcher as far as I can tell. The illume launcher is rather lacking in functionality as you have found. I'm sure Raster will gladly accept patches to improve the situation, but afaik nobody has written any. launcher was basic to get the job done, and it id. it hasn't been touched since though. :) i'm slowly gettign around to splitting illume up into policy (window layout) vs shelf (the top bar), vkbd and launcher and other bits. u'll see illume2 in svn as a module name, but its really more of a testbed for me cleaning up the code and doing it right. -- - Codito, ergo sum - I code, therefore I am -- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)ras...@rasterman.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
