Hello all.
Please find attached a bash script that:
-- puts all your desktop icons in a menu
-- wipes away all your desktop icons, save one
-- restores the original desktop icons as needed
-- is called with the Win-P hot key or by click on the icon
-- presents you with a choice of six themes (before-last line of the script;
---- themes are included)
-- discriminates between default apps, utilities, and directories and partitions.
-- does this in +/- 0,7 seconds (creation); +/- 0,017 seconds (regular display).
The difference with current Puppy options for desktop icons should be obvious:
-- current options for this setting are NOT "on-the-fly", this one is.
In current Puppy use, you select
---- few icons, all icons or no icons on your desktop, AND then
---- you have to live with it until... you dig down a number of levels into your menu
again, AND then the utility shows up AND then you have to choose AND then you click
on your option.
In other words, a chore. Whereas this script is snappy: 0.017 sec. for regular display.
Please see attached screen captures.
This is the 2nd edition. The 1st one was released only on the French side.
Sincere thanks to the lab rats there!
You like, you use and you do not tell me. (Well, maybe post ONE word of thanks...)
You do not like? You give me a mouthful below about what's wrong with it on your box.
And I try to fix it. Agreed?
This being a bash script, it does not matter if your Pup is 32- or 64-bits. However, the
support executables included in this pet archive are 32-bits. Please see below for the
64-bit version.
Enjoy!
Desktop Icons Menu (DIM), v. 0.2
Desktop Icons Menu (DIM), v. 0.2
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- Desktop_Icons-Menu-0.2.pet
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- DIM-3-EN.jpg
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- DIM-2-EN.jpg
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- DIM-1-EN.jpg
- Options section. Click "Repopulate" to get your original desktop back.
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Last edited by musher0 on Sun 04 Feb 2018, 01:20, edited 2 times in total.
musher0
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"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)
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"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)
Same as above, for 64-bit Pups.
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- Desktop_Icons-Menu-0.2_64.pet
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musher0
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"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)
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"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)
Hello all.
I spotted an oversight. My apologies. I will correct it in the next version. In the meantime.
please open a terminal and type the following:for both 32- and 64-bit versions.
Thanks.
If you installed the DIM archive, the replaceit utility is already in place to do this job.
BFN.
I spotted an oversight. My apologies. I will correct it in the next version. In the meantime.
please open a terminal and type the following:
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cd /usr/local/Desktop_Icons-Menu
replaceit --input=icones-bureau.sh "default Apps" "$Default" "{menu"
chmod +x icones-bureau.sh
Thanks.
If you installed the DIM archive, the replaceit utility is already in place to do this job.
BFN.
musher0
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"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)
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"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)
Hello again.
For the user's convenience, here is a little theme choosing utility for the DIM script.
How-to:
-- Download in /usr/local/Desktop_Icons-Menu
-- unzip /usr/local/Desktop_Icons-Menu/DIM_theme-choice.zip with command:-- make file < DIM_theme-choice.sh > executable with:-- move the link < DIM_theme-choice > to /usr bin, this way:
Sorry for the bother. This companion script will be included in the next release -- if there
is enough of a demand for said "next release".
Some error checking is included.
To get out of this script at the prompt, type Ctrl-Z and NOT the usual Ctrl-C.
(Not my doing: bash's < read > internal utility wants it this way.)
Upon a successful change, the Desktop Icons Menu script is executed displaying the
new theme.
A screen capture is attached.
Any question, please ask.
BFN.
For the user's convenience, here is a little theme choosing utility for the DIM script.
How-to:
-- Download in /usr/local/Desktop_Icons-Menu
-- unzip /usr/local/Desktop_Icons-Menu/DIM_theme-choice.zip with command:
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unzip /usr/local/Desktop_Icons-Menu/DIM_theme-choice.zip
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chmod +x /usr/local/Desktop_Icons-Menu/DIM_theme-choice.sh
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mv /usr/local/Desktop_Icons-Menu/DIM_theme-choice /usr/bin
is enough of a demand for said "next release".
Some error checking is included.
To get out of this script at the prompt, type Ctrl-Z and NOT the usual Ctrl-C.
(Not my doing: bash's < read > internal utility wants it this way.)
Upon a successful change, the Desktop Icons Menu script is executed displaying the
new theme.
A screen capture is attached.
Any question, please ask.
BFN.
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musher0
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"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)
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"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)