Re: Fun desktop integration tasks

2004-11-28 Thread Alban Browaeys
> Task 4: > Try updating the menu mapping code to support the new XDG menu > specification. Don't bother trying to make this work everywhere, it's a > total nightmare. Just try supporting the new standards. Be warned: not > every desktop/distro supports this yet! > > This one might be quite hard.

Re: Fun desktop integration tasks

2004-11-28 Thread Ivan Leo Puoti
Another task: Get xscreensaver to respect the registry LowPowerActive setting. Ivan. Libero ADSL: navighi gratis a 1.2 Mega, senza canone e costi di attivazione. Abbonati subito su http://www.libero.it

Re: Fun desktop integration tasks

2004-11-28 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 08:35 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi - probably my first comment after lurking here for a few weeks. Is > there anything that a user type (I'm not a developer in any sense) can > do in this area? I'm afraid they nearly all involve patching Wine, so not with this set of sugges

Re: Fun desktop integration tasks

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:56:37 +, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:18:34 +0100, Stefan Dösinger wrote: > > Another suggestion, probably a bigger task: Look for common native > > applications and write entries for them into the registry. > > Yep! Here's another sugge

Re: Fun desktop integration tasks

2004-11-28 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:18:34 +0100, Stefan DÃsinger wrote: > Another suggestion, probably a bigger task: Look for common native > applications and write entries for them into the registry. Yep! Here's another suggestion. Keep them coming guys! :) - Implement a bridge between the Windows registr

Re: Fun desktop integration tasks

2004-11-28 Thread Stefan DÃsinger
> I'm sitting waiting for a couple of compiles to finish, so I thought I'd > put together a list of fun/interesting tasks people might like to have a > go at related to better integrating Wine with the native desktop. > > None of these should be especially hard, and so would provide a good intro >

Re: Fun desktop integration tasks

2004-11-27 Thread Steven Edwards
Hi Mike, --- Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Task 1: > Map CSIDL_PERSONAL (My Documents) to the $HOME directory if mapped. > See > the _SHGetDefaultValue function in dlls/shell32/shellpath.c for an > explanation of how to do this. You left the most important thing off the list . I would l

Re: Fun desktop integration tasks

2004-11-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' PettenÃ
On Saturday 27 November 2004 22:14, Mike Hearn wrote: > Hint: in modern GNOME desktops you can > use the "gnome-open" program to make this automatic. There is a KDE > equivalent. In kde the command is 'kfmclient openUrl '. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenà [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://flameeyes.web.cton

Re: Fun desktop integration tasks

2004-11-27 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:14:33 +, Mike Hearn wrote: > You may be tempted to use eg, libpng to implement this. Don't! Use > GdkPixbuf instead, stock icons are allowed to be in many formats including > SVG. Actually it's probably easier to use the new GTK+ APIs to implement this, that takes care o

Fun desktop integration tasks

2004-11-27 Thread Mike Hearn
Hi everybody, I'm sitting waiting for a couple of compiles to finish, so I thought I'd put together a list of fun/interesting tasks people might like to have a go at related to better integrating Wine with the native desktop. None of these should be especially hard, and so would provide a good in