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Hmmm:

1) how would icons be created without it?
2) what about people who like icons on the desktop?
3) rotate wallpaper ATM uses it to do the work.

i don't use icons myself, but those i have seduced from windows (and also other linux distributions) to mx-fluxbox all use icons on the desktop.
For my icon-dependent guests, I also have the programmes intended for them as icons on the desktop.
Since idesk can be switched on and off at any time during operation, I can live with it.

Jerry3904 wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 4:32 pm Hmmm:

1) how would icons be created without it?
2) what about people who like icons on the desktop?
3) rotate wallpaper ATM uses it to do the work.

Alternatively if we want the default link files localized then we should have a scipt generate the links, or maybe just modify the links. maybe as an extension to xdg-update-dirs diversion that we have. That way the captions and names can be put into pot files for transifex.

dolphin_oracle wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 6:43 pm Alternatively if we want the default link files localized then we should have a scipt generate the links, or maybe just modify the links. maybe as an extension to xdg-update-dirs diversion that we have. That way the captions and names can be put into pot files for transifex.

That's was idea, when the question was raised.

fehlix wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 7:25 pm

dolphin_oracle wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 6:43 pm Alternatively if we want the default link files localized then we should have a scipt generate the links, or maybe just modify the links. maybe as an extension to xdg-update-dirs diversion that we have. That way the captions and names can be put into pot files for transifex.

That's was idea, when the question was raised.

I'm slow, but I'm catching up

I like idesk, because it is a very flexible and powerful tool. I like the fact, that it is possible to put an image any size and shape on the desktop and use it for the program launcher. Of course I personally could live without it, because of Rofi and TInt2, but I think that without idesk MX-Fluxbox will loose a very unique feature that distinguish it from another MX-flavors.
I really can't understand, why nobody cares about the fact, that fluxbox root-menu-submenus are not localizated at all (I've got only the main menu in Polish by default), that the names of program-categories in FB-menu are not translated at all (it was reported by me while MX21 beta and RC were released), but the English description under the idesk icon for the help videos (that are in English sic!), is such an urgent problem.

dolphin_oracle wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:26 am here's one to add.

develop a session file to pull in defaults for mx-fluxbox if they don't exist already. use /etc/X11/Xsession.d/21xfce4-defaults-mx as a template. I've been working on the xfce one for a while, with the idea of doing one for fluxbox later. will eliminate the mxflux_install script.

develop method in startup that would process autostart entries from /etc/xdg/autostart, and ~/.config/autostart. this would simplify the startup file greatly. we would probably need to add some some of autostart selection tool, like xfce and KDE have.

Reviewing this thread as we move forward to a full alpha: I like these ideas but doubt if I know enough to carry them out ...

@Melber Adopting/adapting this, thanks.

Session file is already done.

Super, thanks.