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[thunor]

[8-bit]

[thunor]

[8-bit]

Thank you for making things clear.
I already knew of how to get the script to use the configuration file on startup.
But while I am here, I will ask that the modded gtkdialog file I uploaded be checked out to see if everything works as expected.
I still have the modified source code files, I used gtkdilaog3-0.7.20-pe-1 for my source and added the patches I found in this thread.

So if I missed something or you would like me to upload the modified source in a tar.gz file yell.

[01micko]

Ah thunor.. this is fun! I will write a revision of the clunky wallpaper setter soon.

8-bit.. your binary works just fine , I notice it's not stripped though, you can get it alot smaller with "strip --strip-unneeded"

Here is a spin on thunor's code that demos the pixmap refreshing capability: (notice how only one of the buttons refreshes the pixmap )

[01micko]

Ok, this is the not so clunky SWS (simple-wallpaper-setter)

Thanks to thunor's patches to gtkdialog.

note, this depends on the gtkdialog4 executable posted by 8-bit, or roll your own with the patch above, name it "gtkdialog4" and pop it in /usr/sbin or /usr/bin

[technosaurus]

As long as it doesn't _remove_ or change existing functionality when compared to gtkdialog3, there is no need to bump the version number. ... perhaps a symlink or version file etc... (btw there is an operational difference between 2 & 3 that required a version bump)

[8-bit]

For all concerned about my calling the patched gtkdialog 4, I was not actually bumping the version number.
Or at least I did not mean to.
It was a case of calling it what I did for testing purposes so as not to interfere with the gtkdialog3 file that was already on my PC.
As a matter of fact, I compiled it as gtkdialog3 and just renamed the executable for co-existence while testing it.
If you do not like it being called gtkdialog4, just rename it to gtkdialog3.

I hope I made myself clear as mud on that.

Also, since I have never used the strip option in compiling, and have no idea where or how to implement it, my compile was not stripped.

[01micko]

Understood 8-bit and I was thinking along those lines too.

I'm going to put the exec in the next spup (as gtkdialog3) just to see if anything breaks, I don't think it will but you never know.

As a note, my patch does not include this from thunor (return ""; [in src/stringman.c]) .. as I understood his edit on the previous page took care of that. Please correct me if I'm wrong and I'll do another patch. Gtkdialog is not segfaulting for me if it doesn't find the image without that line.

BTW strip --strip-unneeded <name-of-exec> is all that's needed to strip in most cases. (learnt that from disciple a few years ago now )

[8-bit]

01micko,
Thank you for the strip command usage.
I tried it and it brought the gtkdialog4 executable from 371K to 123K.

And also, I did modify the source for the "return;" in my compile.

Also, nice work on the Simple Wallpaper Switcher!

And lastly, I lied! The name originally compiled to was just "gtkdialog".

[disciple]

Note that .so and .a files would normally be stripped before packaging too. If you strip these without the --strip-unneeded flag then it breaks them, but you can strip executables without --strip-unneeded... and they might even end up smaller.

[8-bit]

thunor opens the door!

With the changes made to gtkdialog3, and after seeing 01micko's Simple Wallpaper Switcher, one could design a package/application and call it something like "Picture This".
Feed it the name of a picture directory and display each picture in that directory.
For trying to find a specific picture that had some name given by a camera
it would come in handy.

[thunor]

Here's some code to enable <pixmap> to be scaled (no need to use external command-line scalers anymore):

[EDIT] 20110618-22:01 Gtkdialog is now in a repository (see this post).

This is how it works:

By default the image will be loaded without constraint as per the norm (width will default to -1 and height -1).
If either <width> or <height> (or both) is set then "the image will be scaled to fit in the requested size, preserving the image's aspect ratio."

e.g.
<width>100</width><height>100</height>
<width>100</width> (equivalent to <width>100</width><height>-1</height>)
<height>100</height> (equivalent to <width>-1</width><height>100</height>)

I achieved this by replacing gtk_image_new/set_from_file() with gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_size() and I recommend reading the link.

[01micko]

thunor,

re my earlier post..

is the return ""; still needed in stringman.c?

TIA

[thunor]