Hi Rene - Below is a message that I sent to others with similar questions about ooqstart. As you can see, I've outlined a strategy that will eliminate the dependence on either GNOME or KDE. I want to use the docklet interface to present a system tray icon on all desktops. In any case, please read the email below and let me know if anybody can provide some assistance.
Thanks, Kumaran ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:49:56 -0800 (PST) From: Kumaran Santhanam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Ooqstart + Gnome2 + KDE Hello - Over the past few months, all of you have emailed me to ask about support for Gnome 2 in Ooqstart. I have been very busy with other things, and my standard reply has been that I will not be developing it further for the foreseeable future. However, the emails keep coming, and since there is such overwhelming interest, I have reconsidered my position. My other activities have lightened up a bit, and I might have some time in the next few weeks to bring Ooqstart to a v1.0 release. This time, the strategy is a little different than before. Please allow me to outline it below: 1) I am going to rewrite the code to be completely GUI-independent. The application will have a command line interface as well as a basic GUI configuration utility. 2) The GUI configuration utility will be written using FLTK (www.fltk.org) for maximum portability. FTLK is a lightweight statically-linked library designed for small GUI applications. 3) Configuration information will be stored in ~/.ooqstart instead of using GConf so that it becomes independent of GNOME. 4) I will provide stubs to create a docklet interface so that a system tray icon can be provided on all desktops. 5) Create packages for major distributions (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, etc). To accomplish all of this, I am going to need your help. I have the time to do steps 1-3 above and get the code into a workable state. After that, I would really appreciate it if somebody could contribute a docklet interface for GNOME/KDE and other open desktops. Remember, this has to be independent of libraries in either desktop environment. I will, of course, provide programmatic stubs so that the docket interface can simply call into the main application to accomplish various tasks. Please let me know how you can help. If you know anybody who could contribute steps 4-5, do ask them if they would like to lend their assistance. Thanks, Kumaran
