On 19/01/06, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:12:38 +0100 Christian Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: [...] > hmm - well follow it and help us figure otu "what it is" as as a develoepr i > dont see any "Freezes" here and i do use e all day, every day, on every > machine > i have, so to fix it, if it is indeed e, we need as much info as possible, > as > its not reproducable here.
I set up one of my PCs using Gentoo, and I just compiled Enlightenment from CVS using the ebuilds supplied. E runs stable, no problems whatsoever. It's a fine day to day experience working with it. But the configuration I experienced the freeze with for the first time was different: It was a x86-Box running Debian/Unstable with the stock X-Server. I downloaded the most recent versions of the tools and libraries needed to compile E, and installed them to /usr/local. So the systems currently contains two versions of most graphic libraries and stuff like automake, autoconf, libtool. I started Enlightenment using Apples X11 with Xnest, so I logged on to the "server" and exported a display. The other day I made another test using my Gentoo-Box and XDMCP, it freezed, too. I'm currently willing to blame the build environment on my Debian box, it might be flaky and the configure-scripts, the compiler or the linker might get lost with the different versions. The version of X is 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11. > > I have a few questions, thou. I saw that there's a kind of file > > manager being available from the main menu. Are you planning to extend > > its features? What about AppDir-Support then? > > errr - as in an application is actually a dir containing the executable(s), > libs, datafiles and u can run it just by launching the dir (as opposed to > opening the dir up to browse) ? if so - i think we will need a good set of > EXAMPLEs of this as no apps really come shipped this way in linux or bsd or > solaris for example (and most devs use linux, some use osx, or bsd). Because of this most "App-Dirs" I know of are in fact just wrappers for applications installed in a standard way. But it's still nice to work with these wrappers, because they allow you to just double click on them, you can drag'n'drop files onto them. Well designed wrappers also contain links to their documentation, so you can right click and select "Help..." The "AppDirs" I know are pretty simple, firstly there is a file called .DirIcon which contains a small Icon that is displayed instead of a simple Directory-Icon. Upon double click this directory is scanned for an executable file called "AppRun". If it doesn't exist, the directory is just opened like any other normal directory, if it exists the file is executed instead. Any drag'n'drop operation to this directory will execute AppRun too, but will give the pathname of the dragged item as argument. Optionally there is an "AppInfo.xml" found in such a directory that can be used to display information about the app, such as author, version number, homepage and a very short description... In general thats all, but I have to admit that there are a few issues to discuss when it comes down to Enlightenment. The Icons are set manually for example, so they probably won't match a selected theme. So it could be a nice idea to have a "default override" that doesn't display the .DirIcon, but looks into the themes icon directory for an icon matching the directory name, displaying this instead. But this would mean that every theme author would have to supply a set of icons for many applications... It might be possible to generate such an icon automatically, for example by supplying a kind of mask that acts as an overlay of a default theme icon. Anyway, if I consider what the integrated Filemanager is supposed to do, at least the second part might be oversized for it. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
