idesk 0.7.8

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#1 Post by **Jerry3904** » Sat May 20, 2023 5:08 pm

MXFB includes the large and not especially attractive Moka icon set for the sole purpose of providing png icons for desktop icons using idesk. @ceeslans pointed out on slack this morning that a new version of idesk was released a year and a half ago that along with other features allegedly can handle svg icons if "--enable-svg" is included during compilation. Repology shows a small handful of distros that have the most recent version though none that is Debian-based.

If possible, we would like to be able to test 0.7.8 during the beta period that starts in about a week. If results are positive then we could drop Moka and be able to use Papirus, giving a nice icon coherency and lightening our load.

TIA

#2 Post by **Stevo** » Tue May 23, 2023 8:24 pm

I'll take a look---I don't even remember if Debian or MX has it in the repos at all...

#3 Post by **Jerry3904** » Tue May 23, 2023 8:40 pm

Both have the current version, but as I said in OP neither has this and Repology shows no Debian-based distro with it.

Thanks.

#4 Post by **Stevo** » Wed May 24, 2023 5:22 pm

OK, I have the sources, so will try and build it later today.

#5 Post by **Jerry3904** » Wed May 24, 2023 5:34 pm

Excellent! Pls don't forget the svg part--ope it works...

Will the MX Test Repo be enabled for the beta phase? If yes, it would be ideal to put it there.

#6 Post by **Stevo** » Wed May 24, 2023 8:35 pm

Apparently the 0.7.5 version had some issues that Debian patched away, and 0.7.8 only partially addressed those.

I managed to build MX 23 versions with the svg support, but it can't find the libsvg2-dev headers in MX 21, even using pkg-config, even though both versions ship with similar .pc files that are supposed to accomplish that.

I don't know if a newer libsvg2 can be backported to MX 21, since it's getting tied to Rust and Cargo now.

#7 Post by **dolphin_oracle** » Wed May 24, 2023 8:37 pm

I would rather not break mx21 fluxbox users at this point with something unforeseen. lets just stick with mx23 for this idesk.

#8 Post by **Jerry3904** » Wed May 24, 2023 8:53 pm

Agreed.

#9 Post by **Stevo** » Thu May 25, 2023 4:50 pm

I'll send it to the MX 23 repo, then.

#10 Post by **i_ri** » Fri May 26, 2023 5:18 am

Hello Stevo and Jerry3904
yes the mx23 idesk 7.8 show icons of .svg
require Width: and Height: in .lnk

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