[Usability] Re: "Show Desktop"-applet ScuttleButt2

[Alex Barnes <alex barnes sympatico ca>]

On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 13:41, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:35:00PM -0600, Ryan Muldoon wrote:
> > One useful feature that might help this is if there was a "show desktop"
> > button on the panel (with an associated keyboard command).  I'd imagine
> > that it could just be a sawfish script that iconified everything...and
> > clicking it again would un-iconify things.  It seems like it would
> > probably be easy for those who know rep.
> 
> 
>   http://www.phys.lsu.edu/students/merchan/GNOME/ScuttleButt2.tar.gz
> 

Hey neat, I logged a bug on this type of thing a while ago:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61988

Thanks for doing this - it's awesome!


I had to make the following change to get it to work for me, RedHat 7.2
with Ximian (gnome-core-1.4.0.4-ximian.6):

--- Makefile.orig	Tue Nov 20 14:11:52 2001
+++ Makefile	Tue Nov 20 14:17:09 2001
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 	gcc -o scuttlebutt scuttlebutt.o gwmh.o gstc.o `gnome-config --libs
applets gnomeui gtk`
 
 scuttlebutt.o: scuttlebutt.c
-	gcc -c scuttlebutt.c `gnome-config --cflags applets gnomeui gtk` -I.
+	gcc -c scuttlebutt.c `gnome-config --cflags applets gnomeui gtk`
-I/usr/include/orbit-1.0 -I.
 
 gwmh.o: gwmh.c gwmh.h gstc.h
 	gcc -c gwmh.c `gnome-config --cflags gnomeui gtk` -I.


> Until I update (later today), you should grab the .gnorba file and install
>  it with the rest of them.
> 
> Be sure to turn of iconification animation. It's the last option on the
>  Appearance capplet of sawfish.
> 

Good tip; that animation drives me nuts when I minimize apps.

Thanks again,

 -Alex


> (The first ScuttleButt was a repling that I announced on the Sawfish mailing
>  list. There were no replies or downloads then so I assumed no one was
>  interested. I did version 2 one night for no reason I can recall.)
> 
> I might do a GNOME 2 version as soon as I have devel libs for the 2.0 panel
> and libwnck. The latter replaces the gwmh and gstc code.
> 
> Cheers,
> Greg Merchan
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