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Desklets for Thunar and xfdesktop
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Priority:
Very Low
Severity:
enhancement

Comments

Description Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2006-01-24 23:24:41 CET
This is open for discussion, and out of range for Thunar 1.0/xfdesktop 4.4.0.

In todays Unix/Linux desktop world, it's pretty common to implement desklets as
separate tools, with separate windows, whose backgrounds are synchronized with
the desktop background. This is neither nice nor very efficient.

Therefore I'd suggest to provide a simple way to hook into the desktop views
provided by Thunar and xfdesktop, allowing applications to place abritrary
desktop applets there. This could be done as a separate library, and desklets
would run in separate processes to not affect the stability of the file/desktop
manager. Communication could be done through the Xserver or using D-BUS.
Comment 1 Harold Aling 2007-09-23 19:00:19 CEST
Please try adesklets or gdesklets...

Closing as 'wontfix'...
Comment 2 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2007-09-23 20:19:40 CEST
Maybe you won't fix this one, but maybe I'll do... :-)
Comment 3 Harald Judt editbugs 2015-04-17 18:36:22 CEST
Well, no one did it, and so let's close this finally. This would belong to xfdesktop anyway, or maybe an implementation of thunar/desktop that still does not exist.

Bug #1373

Reported by:
Benedikt Meurer
Reported on: 2006-01-24
Last modified on: 2015-04-17

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
2 users

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unspecified

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