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kobaian wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:59 am ...
Wanna try it with your rofi?
Just create a categories file in your ~/.config/rofi folder.
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You can of course edit this code, translate the category-names to your native language or add the Awesome icons to it, change the display-drun names etc for the better effect.

@kobaian Thanks for the script and code in earlier post #806.
I finally managed to activate the categories in an (early) iconic rofi window. I love what you did with it using the Awesome iconfont.
Here is a screenshot-composition of my display0 workspace, showing the various selection states of the category and category-items.

Nice. After the New Year, I would like to start a separate thread on this topic with an eye toward default deployment with MX-23.

Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 3:11 am Good morning MX'ers.

This is the second edition of Conkymania for my new " dev punk" desktop theme which I'm building without any methodology, just by overriding everything I could.

Enjoy the paradox



Thank you.

I like the conky in it's own window idea (middle picture). That way you don't have to have your your stats overlayed on top of the background image all the time.
I'm more impressed with the conky on the left. Is that coded into App Finder?

ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 7:45 am
@kobaian Thanks for the script and code in earlier post #806.
I finally managed to activate the categories in an (early) iconic rofi window. I love what you did with it using the Awesome iconfont.
Here is a screenshot-composition of my display0 workspace, showing the various selection states of the category and category-items.

I'm glad you have enjoyed and improved the script for yourself.

The script I'm using now for myself offers a similar workflow, but I have turned from the Awesome font but to Iosevka font, that is a combination of a monospaced font with a couple of symbolic fonts and incorporates all the Awesome icons. The main advantage of Iosevka is that you can use one font for a theme and you don't have to be worry about the conflicts between the characters, when you build a dmenu list, where symbols and names stand one next to the other. The conflict forces you to test every time, if the icon, you have chosen, will work together with the text or not.
But the main problem of Iosevka is that the letters look a little bit too small for the nominal font size, and it won't be friendly for people with eye diseases. A monospaced font isn't also so universal for projects like a sans serif font. So I think it is good for me, but it won't be the best option for everyone.





https://github.com/adi1090x/rofi/blob/m ... mplete.ttf

@ceeslans
I like it, that's pretty solid and consistent style. Good job guys.


@siamhie

I like the conky in it's own window idea (middle picture). That way you don't have to have your your stats overlayed on top of the background image all the time.
I'm more impressed with the conky on the left. Is that coded into App Finder?

Thank you for understanding the idea which in general is to investigate many possibilities around MX-FB.

Although I have congratulated the developers before, I recognize that I could not abandon the App finder as an independent window, this seems great to me and I feel that it is a rule of MXFB identity without which I could not live.
For such reason I have been doing some static tests, which provide nothing more than a simple visual reference of my work in the laboratory of ideas. I think there may be room for growth and development in the field of visual experience on Glinux. Before others do. (MS).

Now and answering your first statement, I think it is essential to be able to visualize the conky in its own window.

Answer your second question, I'm sorry to tell you that it is not coded within app finder. Actually you will be disappointed to know that I use the functionality, until before unknown to me to use the layers of windows, that @Jerry3904 told me in another thread. Although similar composition was going to be done with inkscape, this solution saved me a lot of time in composition. It is therefore just a mockup using the functionality of layers in windows, to show the dev punk concept.

Thanks you

densily populated MacOS-like launchpad theme for rofi; slightly modified.
Admittedly, a bit (or: wayyyy) over the top...

i like it

Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 8:30 pm
@siamhie

I like the conky in it's own window idea (middle picture). That way you don't have to have your your stats overlayed on top of the background image all the time.
I'm more impressed with the conky on the left. Is that coded into App Finder?

Thank you for understanding the idea which in general is to investigate many possibilities around MX-FB.

Although I have congratulated the developers before, I recognize that I could not abandon the App finder as an independent window, this seems great to me and I feel that it is a rule of MXFB identity without which I could not live.
For such reason I have been doing some static tests, which provide nothing more than a simple visual reference of my work in the laboratory of ideas. I think there may be room for growth and development in the field of visual experience on Glinux. Before others do. (MS).

Now and answering your first statement, I think it is essential to be able to visualize the conky in its own window.

Answer your second question, I'm sorry to tell you that it is not coded within app finder. Actually you will be disappointed to know that I use the functionality, until before unknown to me to use the layers of windows, that @Jerry3904 told me in another thread. Although similar composition was going to be done with inkscape, this solution saved me a lot of time in composition. It is therefore just a mockup using the functionality of layers in windows, to show the dev punk concept.

Thanks you

Understandable. Could you point me to that thread? I have an idea with a Fluxbox logo I have laying around that would be cool to incorporate into app finder.

ceeslans wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:28 am densily populated MacOS-like launchpad theme for rofi; slightly modified.
Admittedly, a bit (or: wayyyy) over the top...

You can never be way over the top when designing a Fluxbox desktop. That looks really good.

@siamhie

Of course, the thread is: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=72618

Just in post number 2 where @Jerry3904 said: "For many windows, you can right-click the titlebar > Layer > and choose the level of "topness" you want."

That is the trick I used to place conky over the top of the active windows.


Cheers