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Lobster
Official Crustacean
Joined: 04 May 2005
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Location: Paradox Realm
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 Posted: Wed 01 Jun 2005, 04:16 Post subject:
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Barry writes here:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/development/developer.htm
| Quote: | Project 7: Configuration GUI for JWM
The window manager JWM is tiny and fast, a delight to use.
It is configured by a text file, /root/.jwmrc. What we would like is a GUI frontend to be able to adjust some of the settings in the config file, like for example turn on/off taskbar autohiding. |
This come to mind:
this configuration file (invisible turn it visible in rox) is in XML format
Is anyone able to write a menu configuration file from a browser?
Could it be done in Perl - is that available yet?.
What about a Quisp cgi code?
Who is up for it? This would be a quite useful project long term as it may give us ways to order data in different ways and XML is the emerging standard . . .
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BarryK
Puppy Master
Joined: 09 May 2005
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
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| Posted: Wed 01 Jun 2005, 07:16 Post subject:
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There is a complication with that project.
Like the Fvwm menu, any changes get overwritten at a version upgrade.
Fvwm has a way around that, as there is an extra config file, /root/.fvwm95rc-settings that can have personal settings, doesn't get overwritten.
Anyone who tackled that project with JWM would have to consider something similar.
There is of course the libxml library, so a C program could probably do the job.
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Ian
Official Dog Handler
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| Posted: Thu 02 Jun 2005, 16:28 Post subject:
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Well Lobster I have downloaded the source and will have a look this weekend.
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Lobster
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| Posted: Thu 02 Jun 2005, 17:50 Post subject:
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Good luck Ian.
i prefer to lay out my icons like so
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/CrustyLobster
Ideally dragging them into the menubar . . .
PS.
More exciting things for pups to look forward too . . . One of our "reserve languages" is Lua - this is quite facinating, as it is extensible (it is a pupget) but I have only looked at it briefly. There is something kewl for someone . . .
Anyone up for that? A PuppyLau page on the wiki?
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BarryK
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The pupget Lua ia an old version though.
The language has progressed somewhat -- I used an old version cos that's what worked with TkLua.
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