Re: [wip] folder explorer widget
 

This should get into extra-devel repository !

Re: [wip] folder explorer widget
 

Yeah, i have played with browser as filemanager since win95 and never liked it, the only system i did like was MS-DOS with a browser i did some participation in developing called Arachne. I even made a Midnight commander clone in html for that :D

The iconsystem seems to be part of the GTK+ so it should be possible to retrieve them from the os-theme itself, but the code i found and mentioned earlier did unfourtunately not work, so maybe someone else has a codesnippet that could be pasted into the code? but it is Sethkhas decision on what to do, so... ;)

Re: [wip] folder explorer widget
 

The icons are in /usr/share/icons. Some icon themes don't have MIME icons and if they have, they are 48x48 or 64x64 (small and ugly).
I had some code, which compiled without error, but didn't work. So I came up with another solution. I doubt that a true MIME icon solution would be much faster. I would replace it if it would be needed, but would it be better?
More interesting would be to add more MIME types (open sh, py with eg TXPad). I think this should be done somewhere in the system.

@demolition
I don't know much about icons, I wouldn't edit icons on device, but I don't like messing with icons anyway

@archl
I plan to do so, but there's some work to do before that

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There is a tool called DBus-switchboard that takes care of the open of mimetypes, so it is in the system already ;)

I remeber a program for win3.11 where you got a grid of large pixels where you could paint your own icons ,with a small preview in the real size on the side. That layout would make it quite easy to do icons on the device for those who are interested in painting ;)

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So someone ;) should have a look at it, shouldn't be too hard.

I remember that! Could even be I still have it somewhere.

Updated first page. Yellownotes is no longer needed/can be used again.
Should be faster now as I removed some runtime information prints

Re: [wip] folder explorer widget
 

Yeah in visual studio there's something very similar. Pain to use without a predefined image as well. I was thinking of something much simpler: Go through list of programme icons and for each (example suggestion only)
- get programme icon
- reduce to 60%
- place on white rectangle
-> -> initial file icon
Then when associating with each file-type
- perhaps modify colour / hue / brightness etc.
- on white space of rectangle write extension name.

This is only a very rough suggestion but think it gives an idea of what I was thinking of. Obviously, the programme icon's not always ideal as a file icon and some software can open lots of different types. Anyway...

Re: [wip] folder explorer widget
 

Do you mean a dual run/edit function?

It works very well :) However, i am starting to lean against adding a homebutton anyway ;)

Then i also have an idea to hide the config-mode problem from joe user when it hits the repos, maybe the scrollbar should be very thin and then a page up and page down button could be used instead, probably occupying the space used by the scrollbar now. That would most likely also give room for some more buttons between them ;)

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Seems like you are thinking of some automated process? ;)

But the mimetype icons are somehow accessible, but a simple loadnpaste function of any picturefile would work just as well.
However this could be a useable program by itself for those who like to spend hours on a single painting, so maybe you could post it as a suggestion in Design?

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I mean which file is open with which application is written somewhere in the system, I can't add it in deskypplet. I could, if the devs of eg TXPad,PyGTKEditor... added the possibility for that (not sure about this though)

Does that mean, you want a button? I can add it, it's not much work and easy to remove. Will take a while for favorites list anyway.

This would mean a lot of work (if there is no built in sollution for scrolled windows). It's easier for the user to get over it.

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hmm, for me it seems like everything is as usual (every file is opened with its program as expected) so how do you do it now?

If it is fast and easy so yes please :) i get lost quite quickly in the filesystem right now :p
But i think you could keep it too, as the first and most important bookmark, since it already is an editable link in the configfile.

Yeah, let them get over it :D:D i use it daily and dont have any problems with it ;)