Re: Help needed developing a FolderView extension

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

It will be tough due to how the window actor stacking logic works. We
should probably change the background actor to be a separate thing,
rather than stacked inside the window group.

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Iñigo Serna <inigoserna gmail com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I'm gonna answer myself.
>
> Regarding first issue (extension doesn't got css style), I've found
> out it's due a known bug in gnome-shell, already fixed in v3.1.3:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650971
>
> But I'm stopped at the second problem:
> how can I make the extension shown on desktop background to be behind
> any other window?
> I've tried "actor.lower_bottom()" but it doesn't work... any tip?
>
> Btw, updated code is in
> https://inigo.katxi.org/misc/tmp/folderview%40katxi.org.tar.gz
>
> Thanks,
> Iñigo Serna
>
> On 24 September 2011 20:48, Iñigo Serna <inigoserna gmail com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm learning gnome-shell, St and this stuff now, so I'm quite new with
>> gnome-shell coding.
>>
>> My long term target is to develop a FolderView for gnome-shell
>> desktop, implemented as an extension.
>>
>> I have a somehow working box displayed in the desktop background
>> showing the bookmarks.
>> But there are 2 important problems:
>> - how can I make box to appear at back, not in front of other windows?
>> - stylesheet is not applied, but can't understand why?
>>
>> Code is: https://inigo.katxi.org/misc/tmp/folderview%40katxi.org.tar.gz
>>
>>
>> It looks there is not a Grid widget in St. I've tried to use one I've
>> found in ui/iconGrid.js but with no luck.
>> Is there any example apart from appDisplay code?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Iñigo Serna
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  Jasper