Panel in the right side

[JmaCWQ]

Thank you very much for the explanation. - I am still chewing on it and I will get back to it. I think we ought to put the MX-tool to the test and use the files it builds in ~/.restore for sharing directly. You might be surprised about how compatible it is. :-)

Have you tried it?
You might also be surprised about how compatible it is not

If the screen resolution and all the other requirements, icons, launchers, installed programs etc. etc. are present and the same on another machine it should work.
If not, what you end up with is a mess.

[Jakob77]

JmaCWQ

Yes, I use it and there might be a little adjustment needed from screen to screen but in general I am very impressed by it.
Maybe it is a long time ago you have used it, and a lot of updating has happened since.?
However I do take for granted it is a MX computer that is the target, so all the standard icons will be there.
About programs being present or not, if nothing else I guess it can be solved with scripts coming along, and when the icon has a script it will be stable.

[Jakob77]

My 5. panel in the right side in the upper corner is now popping out with 12 small stars.

I think they are deserved. ;-)

The-fifth-panel2.jpg

A screensaver for each star, and maybe a good user picture or two.

Tool-tips, and in time habit, will guide the user.
A bit like a piano player. We don't see him put different pictures on the buttons to remember the tones.
It is a new thought for me and maybe it is too crazy but I am thinking about removing all the colorful icons in the right panel and instead just use one discrete and good looking icon for all launchers.




If we talk about sharing panels, icons and scripts, then the screensavers might sometimes come along as well.
All the 12 screensavers I have chosen to put in ~/bin adds up to less than 2 Mb. :-)

[Jakob77]

JmaCWQ

My client says no to the piano.
So instead I decided to try to make my own panel icons with letters and see how that would work.
I don't think it does.
If it is about remembering an icon then pictures and symbols are better.
If you want to make an elephant icon for zoo then paint it pink or something else crazy.
In the contest about being easy to remember the uglier the better. ;-)

But LazPaint surprised me to the good side.
It took me some time to find out that I have to make a dot with the pen before the polyline will work but after that it is a lot more fun, and LazPaint saves the file as .svg

Edit:

If you read the post before I am sorry it got a little messy.
I have attached a svg sample in case you want to try it.


One of the problems in making an icon set/theme for the right panel is that there might be icons that are difficult to change.
At the moment I am testing this:

Right-panel-redletters.jpg

[JmaCWQ]

You could always put names on the folder icons like I have...
I did mine with XnViewMP, saved as .png files.

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icon-names.png

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folder-GPSbackup-mine.png