wmalauncher

[Jerry3904]

Can this be packaged for MX-17 onward? I tried but didn't get very far. It is a recent app launcher designed specifically for fluxbox and could be very useful.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/wmalauncher/

[Stevo]

I'll take a look at it. Did you get as far as creating a debian folder with something like debmake?

[Jerry3904]

I was just trying to compile it...

[Stevo]

OK, looks like I got it packaged. Besides what the Readme said, it also needed libxpm-dev as a build-depend. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vvkkL ... MfsQcuvkbv

These are the build-deps I used:

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Build-Depends: cmake,
               debhelper (>= 11~),
               libimlib2-dev,
               librsvg2-dev,
               libxpm-dev

If it works OK, PM Tim with the link so he can put the packages in main.

[Jerry3904]

Awesome--will test in the morning, eyes are fried.

Thanks.

[Jerry3904]

OK, that installs and runs well--thanks.

I wonder about including it as it is, though, since it is not exactly user-friendly and misses some basic points (such as how to delete an icon once created). I have emailed the author for more information, and think we might want to wait until we see what comes back.

[Jerry3904]

I'm going to send it to Tim so people can give it a try if interested.

[Stevo]

OK, thanks for the update on it.

[Jerry3904]

OK, this is important.

Wmalauncher is deeply integrated with the upcoming MX-Fluxbox version. I emailed the developer this morning with an enhancement request, and not 6 hours later received this:

Hello jerry,

I chose to implement the kill on right-click instead of a contextual menu for simplicity purpose and
because wmalauncher has no way to directly change the position of the slit, and thus an option
"move" would be useless. I think it would be better to offer this through a wmalauncher instance
that run a dialog (yad/zenity/...) with the possible locations (buttons-radio)and moves the slit accordingly.

You'll find a beta release of wmalauncher with included feature to terminate a wmalaucher
when user right-click on it.This feature is disabled by default. To enable it, you must pass
option --exit-on-right-click (or simply -x) to wmalauncher.

The user is notified that wmalauncher instance is about to be terminated using the following
effects: The icon is shrinked (-4 pixels), displayed in grayscale, and, a red cross (thickness=4) is drawn on it.

I tested this on my system (slackware) and on a mxlinux VM. I didn't' noticed any issue nor regression,
but this does not mean I didn't make any mistakes ;-P.

In attachment, you'll find the following :

* An image that show the effects when you right-click on a wmalauncher instance.
* the source-archive of wmalauncher-2020.0123 (beta)
* the binary of wmalauncher build on mxlinux (VM) so that you can try it without to have to build it from source.

As a reminder, to build wmalauncher from source :

8<----------------------------------------
# required packages on mxlinux
$ apt install libx11-dev libxpm-dev librsvg2-dev libimlib2-dev cmake pkg-config

$ tar xf wmalauncher-2020.0123-beta.tar.gz
$ cd wmalauncher-2020.0123-beta
$ mkdir _build
$ cd _build
$ cmake ..
$ make

# small test in _build folder :
$ ./wmalauncher --config conf/frame-onthefly.conf --prefix mozilla-firefox -x &
8<----------------------------------------

attachments:

1adefb517d3cbc2f340868fdf555621b mxlinux-wmlauncher-2020.0123-beta.png
492c8e6ed00d16cfa14f2d8d3668f4c5 wmalauncher-2020.0123-beta.tar.gz
fd3812b631d76488fe21e89e83dd38c5 wmalauncher

Once these changes are validated, I'll update wmalauncher and publish a new version.

Greetings.

P.S: sorry for my broken english.

--
SeB

Le jeu. 23 janv. 2020 à 14:47, jerry bond <jerry@mxlinux.org> a écrit :

Hi SeB --

By far the most useful change I have seen after almost a month of use
would be what I first approached you about:

right-click launcher to kill

If you would need to create a context menu to do that, I can imagine
also including a "move" command. I am attaching an image of the current
template I mentioned in case that would be useful.

ATM I have a generic menu entry, but it is not intuitive for a user to
think of going there, and the right-click would be the first thought for
average users.

FWIW

Jerry


mxlinux-wmlauncher-2020.0123-beta.png

If possible, could we get this packaged as soon as convenient so it can be included in the imminent testing beta? Here are the attachments:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_1Y20 ... t-H1hUp9zm

[Stevo]

OK, I'm on it.