Re: [Deskbar] deskbar applet under KDE

["Nick Irvine" <nfirvine gmail com>]

>  Hey guys,
>
>  Before I say anything else, I'd like to compliment your application, which
>  seems to be a well-planned and slickly-developed app.
>
>  I am not a novice to linux but in the desktop world I have a lot to learn.
>  I am giving open suse a shot and decided to use KDE based on a couple
>  recommendations.
>
>  An application launcher has become one of my must-haves, and I tried and
>  rejected katapult and beagle in short order.  katapult is pretty but has
>  little functionality, and beagle has lots of great functionality but not
>  quite the right feel.  I have spent a couple hours figuring out what gnome
>  libraries your application requires and getting them installed, but I still
>  can't seem to get it actually working.
>
>  At this point my best effort has been to run the applet from command line
>  until I ironed out the dependencies:
>  /usr/lib/deskbar-applet> ./deskbar-applet
>  DEBUG    Data Dir: /usr/share/deskbar-applet
>  DEBUG    Handlers Dir: ['/home/nspears/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/modules-
>  2.20-compatible', '/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible']
>
>  but I have no idea how to add it to an applet for use on the desktop.
>  Honestly, the panel thing kind of baffles me and I'm not sure where to go
>  from here.  When I try to add a "non-KDE applet" and point it at your script
>  all I get is a button.
>
>  If there's anyone who wouldn't mind either enlightening me as to how easy it
>  is, or that's it impossible, to get deskbar-applet running on KDE I'd
>  appreciate the help.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Nate

Hi Nate,

I believe there's a switch to make deskbar run in a window, and I
think it's -w.  Obviously, this doesn't solve the problem, but you can
at least still try it out.

Nick Irvine