Settings Manager

[dolphin_oracle]

i think that iconbox idea is great. makes it much easier to set up.

for example, I displayed the contents of my /home/dolphin/.local/share/applications directory.

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yad --icons --read-dir=/home/dolphin/.local/share/applications --scroll

and it displays each of the items in an icon box, just like xfce settings manager. or at least close enough.

[Jerry3904]

That does look nice, I'll have to take a second round with it.

[AVLinux]

Hi,

Here is a quickly done example of a Yad launcher dialog for MX-FB, the nice thing about this is the tooltips and stuff like that all look after themselves. It's just a script that points to the directory your launchers are in and the launchers just need to meet the minimum freedesktop.org specs and be a few relevant lines. Obviously my theming is different and I'm using the Papirus Icons but the more generic and stock you keep the icon names the more compatible with all potential themes this will be. No messing around with buttons and arrays and all that jazz, just have your launcher point to the program or script you want to run.

MXFB.png

Script is attached here:

MX-FB.zip

[kobaian]

Hi,

Here is a quickly done example of a Yad launcher dialog for MX-FB, the nice thing about this is the tooltips and stuff like that all look after themselves. It's just a script that points to the directory your launchers are in and the launchers just need to meet the minimum freedesktop.org specs and be a few relevant lines. Obviously my theming is different and I'm using the Papirus Icons but the more generic and stock you keep the icon names the more compatible with all potential themes this will be. No messing around with buttons and arrays and all that jazz, just have your launcher point to the program or script you want to run.

MXFB.png


Script is attached here:
MX-FB.zip

This one looks very nice!
I think the idea of using an iconbox for MXFB-settings is really good. It is simple and allows users to add another launchers without changing the script itself.
I think the activators for "LX-appearance", "LightDM GTK+ Greeter", "Adblock", "Gufw Firewall" and "User-accounts" should be added.

[Jerry3904]

Hi,

Here is a quickly done example of a Yad launcher dialog for MX-FB, the nice thing about this is the tooltips and stuff like that all look after themselves. It's just a script that points to the directory your launchers are in and the launchers just need to meet the minimum freedesktop.org specs and be a few relevant lines. Obviously my theming is different and I'm using the Papirus Icons but the more generic and stock you keep the icon names the more compatible with all potential themes this will be. No messing around with buttons and arrays and all that jazz, just have your launcher point to the program or script you want to run.

MXFB.png


Script is attached here:
MX-FB.zip

Thanks! I'm in the field for work all day, but will take a look tonight.

[kobaian]

Script is attached here:
MX-FB.zip

I like your work, but there is one small problem with one of your desktop files. The proper path to Tint2 settings is "tint2conf" not "tint2".

I've made another one iconbox for myself with a "cancel" and a "fluxbox-folder" button:

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#!/usr/bin/bash

yad --title="System Settings" --window-icon=desktop --width=700 --height=450 --center --borders=12 \
	--text="<b>MX-Fluxbox System Settings</b>" \
	--icons --read-dir="$HOME/.fluxbox/settings/" \
	--button="Fluxbox configuration files!desktop!Launches the ~/.fluxbox folder in Thunar:2" \
	--button="gtk-cancel:1"

ret=$?

[[ $ret -eq 1 ]] && exit 0

if [[ $ret -eq 2 ]]; then
    thunar $HOME/.fluxbox && exit 0
fi

[dolphin_oracle]

if the settings manager tool goes forward, @Jerry3904 , please put the desktop files somewhere other than /home. that way they can be added to or updated without hassle.

[Jerry3904]

Yup, I was thinking of a folder in /user/share/applications

[dolphin_oracle]

Yup, I was thinking of a folder in /user/share/applications

probably a bad spot. /usr/share/applications subfolders get picked up by the various menus/rofi/appfinders so we would get duplicates. probably better in something like /usr/share/mx-fluxbox-setttings-manager or something like that.

a lot of apps do this. kde puts desktop files all over the place.

[AVLinux]

I like your work, but there is one small problem with one of your desktop files. The proper path to Tint2 settings is "tint2conf" not "tint2".

Oops, sorry!

It was just rough outline for an example really, I use XFCE4 with Openbox so I had to guess at the tint2 command in the example launcher. I'm sure in the end there are many more things to add and refinements like you have made in yours which looks great!