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[shinobar]

Hi all, i18n'ed jwm binary and pot file.
you can creat translations using poedit or something.
at this point of time, its i18n is partially, only the window menu.

EDIT 2010-09-14:
Four builds of jwm-493-i18n: Download from here(4 in 1).

• jwm-493-i18np4: for Puppy/Puplet-4.x
  
• jwm-493-i18nq: for Quirky-1.2
  
• jwm-493-i18nl: for Lupu/LupQ-5.x
  
• jwm-493-i18nw: for Wary-0.7

A trap: jwmrc on most of puppies define the font as ' DejaVu Sans-12'. It makes trouble in showing non-european characters. It should be 'DejaVu Sans 12', not '-' but blank.
They are at /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc, /root/.jwmrc, /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme, and /root/.jwm/themes/*-jwmrc.
Run jwm_font_repair.sh combined with the tarball above to repair them all.

JWM-493 accepts 'nofocus'. For example, you can add next entry in jwmrc:

[shinobar]

i18n'ed jwm now in Barry's recent Quirky.
Barry's BLOG

[BarryK]

Yeah, it'll be in the upcoming Quirky 007.

[shinobar]

shintani informed me that jwm-464 is a bit buggy in iconifying applications, aqualung, retrovol and etc.,
and that jwm-460 can be more stable.

to apply jwm-464-i18n.patch against jwm-460 fails to update the file 'configure', but autoconf can creat sane 'configure' file.

assuming jwm-460.tar.bz2 and jwm-464-i18n.patch.gz are at the current directory:

[shintani]

[shinobar]

Three build of jwm-492-i18n:
For Puppy/Pupplet-4.x, for Quirky-1.2 and for Lupu-5.0.1.
See the top of this topic.

[shinobar]

EDIT: new patch worked on Puppy Linux 4.3.1JPqs3, but doesn't work on Puppy 5.x. I am wondering why...
RESOLVED: see the next post.
The jwm-464-i18n.patch against another version of jwm fails to update the file 'configure'.
Attached jwm-493-i18n.patch, without modifying the file 'configure'. You need to execute 'autoconf' to update the file 'configure'.

The source of jwm-493 and jwm-492-fullscreen-patriot.patch are available at http://bkhome.org/sources/alphabetical/j/
Barry's blog: http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01805

[shinobar]

[technosaurus]

Excellent work, I'm glad to see that you got Patriot's full screen patch too.

Now the only big thing jwm is missing is the ability to have invisible trays/traybuttons (with visible icons/text) so that desktop icons could be emulated. (Setting the background color to None /NULL didnt work )

[technosaurus]

I was going through amigo's list of goodies and found desklaunch
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/amigolinux/download/DeskTop/IconMgmt/desklaunch-1.1.3/

desklaunch is a small utility for creating desktop icons which can be launched by clicking them. (it compiles to only 13k)

This is the last function jwm needs to become a full desktop environment.

since it is only a single C file it seems like it could be fairly easily integrated into jwm by renaming it's main and inserting a function call to it in jwm's main??

Note: its hard-coded font is not installed by default in puppy => should either change it to one that exists or better yet refactor to use jwm's font (otherwise it will segfault when it can't find the font)
Note2: desklaunch currently only works with xpm (=more refactoring to add png)

{{of course you could always just run desklaunch as a separate app, just with ~2MB of additional resource waste due to glibc and libX11 inefficiencies - kernels after 2.6.33 reduce this to ~0.5MB, while adding it to jwm should be less than ~50kb}}

[Blesphemy206]