Bug 1424 - Possibility to add "kicker" icons via TLDC
Summary: Possibility to add "kicker" icons via TLDC
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: ThinLinc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: TLDC (Desktop Customizer) (show other bugs)
Version: 1.4.0
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 Enhancement
Target Milestone: MediumPrio
Assignee: Peter Åstrand
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Reported: 2005-07-07 09:09 CEST by Peter Åstrand
Modified: 2013-08-22 11:28 CEST (History)
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Description Peter Åstrand cendio 2005-07-07 09:09:58 CEST
Several customers have asked me about this, so I think it's time to create a bug
for this: Would it be possible to add "kicker" icons via TLDC? That is, icons in
the "start menu bar" at the bottom. 

It seems like these icons are controlled not by individual files, but the file
~/.kde/share/config/kickerrc. That will make this functionality a bit harder, I
guess. OTOH, it's probably fairly simple to add icons to this file, if they are
not already there. 

Here's an example, from the launcher I have on my kicker menu:

[ExeButton_2]
CommandLine=-k sv brie -d signum -g 1024x768 -K
FreeSpace=0.841584
Icon=wabi
Path=rdesktop
RunInTerminal=false

Or, perhaps there is or will be a XDG standard for these types of "launchers"?
Comment 1 Erik Forsberg cendio 2006-07-06 13:37:10 CEST
Initial time estimation covers investigaions on how this works and how it's
supposed to work if there's an xdg standard coming. 
Comment 3 Erik Forsberg cendio 2007-03-27 16:32:38 CEST
As far as I can see, and Ossman agrees, there's no XDG spec for this kind of
functionality.

Gnome hides information about its launchers deep down inside gconf, and includes
information such as the position from one of the ends of the bar, in number of
pixels.

The information in kickerrc is different if you add a link to an existing
application. Here's what it looks like:

[ServiceButton_1]
DesktopFile=$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kicker/firefox-2.desktop
FreeSpace2=0.106667
StorageId=:firefox-2.desktop

I wonder what the 'FreeSpace2' parameter is about.

Ugh. I get a bad feeling of this bug. Having to fiddle both with gconf and a KDE
configuration file, both of them with a format that has no format spec.. urk.
Comment 4 Erik Forsberg cendio 2007-03-29 10:34:27 CEST
Hmm.. testing.

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