sticky icons and "per own" faces of the box

[ylon]

with the actual state beryl had all icons stick on every desktop, my ideas it's quite simple: every face as it's own folder (/home/user/Desktop(1) /home/user/Desktop(2)...) so, every face has their own icon wich launch stuff in it's own face.


And just some will stay "stick" (/home link, trashbin, browser...)



Extra idea: an special face of the cube with basic icons and action performed to the system.. where you can't launch windows but can operate with stuff (ecject cdrom, setting the hardware)
for example: if I drag&drop a file (wich was in a special folder i set before) on the burner icon the system just ask me if i wanna burn that file in a data cd or burn the file as whole iso image.



Btw: sorry for my bad english... hope you will understand :?

[ylon]

no reply? maybe i explained pretty bad, my ideas were two:

1: only some icons will be "sticky" (on all desktop) while each other desktop (face of the cube) had it's own folder in home (ie: /home/user/Desktop1 /home/user/Desktop2...) with it's own files (icons and link)

2: one (or more) special desktop (maybe the top or bottom caps) where isn't normail icons and you can't open new windows: used only to perform system settings (eject cd, control volume, treedimensional taskbar, 3d file manager and so).


hope i got explained better this time :oops:

[SmSpillaz]

Hmm. Its not really doable unless you have some major changes to GNOME/KDE and/or BDM

Basically, the way the cube works is by using viewports. What a viewport is, is like a "Space" for the window manager. But to solve the problem where the desktop is only shown on one of those viewports, you basically "Clone" the desktop across your viewports. To have separate icons, KDE/GNOME would

A) Have to support the viewport model
B) Have to be able to draw separate desktops on each viewport

Compiz would have to

A) Be able to use the separate desktops KDE/GNOME provided

This would also provide a much cleaner way to have different backrounds on each side of the cube.

But unless we can get these things into GNOME/KDE/XFCE, its not possible.

[Kristian]

no reply? maybe i explained pretty bad, my ideas were two:

1: only some icons will be "sticky" (on all desktop) while each other desktop (face of the cube) had it's own folder in home (ie: /home/user/Desktop1 /home/user/Desktop2...) with it's own files (icons and link)


This is not possible as long as the desktop manager is as it is. Both panels and the desktop is a single window which is shared for all viewports, so they have to look the same, since it actually is the same window. You'll see this when you grab the cube and see that all the pagers look the same, even if they appear to be on diffrent viewports.

From Compiz and the opencompositing.org project, there's not much we can do. We still don't have a real desktop manager, and I'm unsure if we want to make that the scope of opencompositing.org. If so, I think it'll be some time into the distant future before you see something that's usable.

[quote:3fb1f]
2: one (or more) special desktop (maybe the top or bottom caps) where isn't normail icons and you can't open new windows: used only to perform system settings (eject cd, control volume, treedimensional taskbar, 3d file manager and so).


hope i got explained better this time :oops:[/quote:3fb1f]

Hmm, similar ideas have been suggested for the top/bottom-face before. I'm not the best person to answer this, at the moment. Basicly, it's feasable, but "someone" has to "just do it" and right now there's a few things pending for cube allready. That sort of thing is amoung the more realistic suggestions for the top face, mind you.