A beautifull osx bar (not karamba)

[vrln]

[vrln]

I see some people have wondered how to get the bouncing icons back.
Good news for you, it is possible :) Another problem with the default none theme is that if you want to use -i 1 and -I 1 (ignore running and iconified windows) yet still want to be able to bring back minimized/iconified windows, there is a way to get that working too. As you can see, every time you start a program via Engage there appears a small black arrow under the icon indicating that it's open. If you minimize/iconify such a program, you can bring it back to the screen by holding the mouse button on the launcher icon. The problem however is, that in the default theme this also starts another instance of the same program. This customized theme will help with both problems:

goal: Engage theme that looks just like the none theme (the default one) but has 2 important changes:

1. Icons bounce like in the mac os x bar + like in the engage mpeg posted on the first page.
2. It's possible to use Engage to handle iconified windows WITHOUT having to have extra icons on the right side of Engage for them. It looks much cleaner imo.

Luckily enough, the Gant theme has these properties, but it also uses a different font and different icons. So this is how you can edit the Gant theme so that it uses the fonts from the none theme and your own icons that you have made with build_icon.sh


First grab the Gant theme source from:
http://www.edevelop.org/errand/themes/gant/apps/engage.html

Untar it with tar -xvzf and go to the gant_engage-0.0.6/fonts directory. Delete everything in here and download VeraBd.ttf from:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/enlightenment/misc/engage/data/themes/none/fonts/

Leave VeraBd.ttf to the fonts directory and go and edit gant_engage.edc. You need to find the section that defines fonts. It's right in the beginning of the file... Switch the original font settings to:

original settings:

fonts {
font, "zeroes.ttf" "Edje.zeroes";
}

delete that and set this instead:

fonts {
font, "VeraBd.ttf" "Edje.VeraBold";
}

Then scroll to the end of the file and delete ALL lines that start with GENERIC_ICON_MAPPING

Now go edit /parts/name.edc and find these lines:

color, 255 255 255 255;
color2, 43 156 212 96;
text {
text, "";
font, "Edje.zeroes";
size, 11;
fit, 0 0;
align, 0.5 1.0;
}
}

And change it to:

color, 255 255 255 255;
color2, 0 0 0 255;
text {
text, "";
font, "Edje.VeraBold";
size, 12;
fit, 0 0;
align, 0.5 1.0;
}
}

Now the only thing left is to delete all signs of the Gant icon set so that it will use only your icons.

First, go to edit /hashes/icon_mappings.edc and delete everything in the file.

Then go to /images/ and first delete all .png files EXCEPT arrow.png. Edit images.edc and delete everything except one line, which is this:

image, "arrow.png" LOSSY 95%;

Now the only thing left to do (this part is completely optional) is to edit build_theme.sh. It uses sudo to copy the theme, so I edited it to work as a user account too and changed the place where it puts the file.

I made it look like this:

#!/bin/sh -e
THEME="gant_engage"
edje_cc -v -id ./images -fd ./fonts $THEME.edc $THEME.eet
cp $THEME.eet "/home/vrln/source/"
echo done
fi

That's it :) I ran build_theme.sh and gant_engage.eet appeared in /home/vrln/source. Then I just copied it to ~/.e/apps/engage/themes and started engage with the gant theme:

# engage -t gant_engage

And it works :) Icons bounce just like in the real thing (mac os x dockbar) and it's possible to bring back iconified apps that have been started with Engage by holding the mouse button on the icon (note: and this time it doesn't start another instance of the app!)

PS: The gant engage icons are quite cool too, check them out before starting with this. If you want to keep them you can just download the gant_engage.eet and use that.

[Swoosh]

Thanks for the tutorial vrln.

However, I have only got the icons to bounce.

Extra icons still appear on the right of the bar.

[vrln]

[jxn]

Including basic key functions in that unofficial (or official, for that matter) engage config guide might be helpful:

[Swoosh]

[vrln]

@jxn

Thanks, good point... I added it to the guide.

@swoosh

np, Engage can be quite difficult to get working, but it's worth it

[Sudrien]

OK, I have a question.

I'm trying to run torsmo along with Engage, in the lower right hand corner - so it's competing for space. The only way I've gotten it to work correctly is with a (sleep 3 && torsmo)& in my .xsession, and running it in its own window.

Which seems to work.

But now I have this eternal Torsmo question mark.

How can I stop a program (but only a specific program) from showing up at all?

-Sud.

Oh yeah - Screenshot of how far I got before torsmo.

[vrln]

[Sudrien]

[imprecation]

Has anyone here figured out a way to be able to change the order of the icons besides deleting them all and adding them back one by one? How are the icons organized by default anyway?

[tallest]

Alphabetically. I just renamed the .eet files in ~/.e/apps/engage/launcher with numbers prefixing all the names so I could choos the order they are displayed in.

Actually I just created a script that makes all my icons and renames them properly. I would post my script but I'm in windows updating my iPod so maybe I'll just edit this post later.

Aaron
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[mm/ol]

Ok, I tried searching a bit, so if this has been answered feel free to ignore this post or post a link to the search page or something.

Engage is running all nice and prettylike right now, but there's problems in both -m 0 and -m 1. In -m 0, it's just got a big black background, and it doesn't undraw the text, leaving trails. In -m 1, it looks perfect, but when i click it, the background (desktop) shows up on top of my applications, looking hideous. Is this working as intended? Do I need to post screenshots? Am I.. confused?

[tecknojunky]

[imprecation]

thanks for the tip about the alphabetical icons.. didn't think of that one

[Swoosh]

I get the following error

[discomfitor]

What if I have an app on another desktop; is there a way to get engage to move to that desktop when I click on the icon? Or is it only possible to minimize/restore with it (like right-clicking on the top bar and finding the window you want)?
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[deflux]

might have already been answered, but i'm using a dual monitor setup, and engage is right in the middle of them both...

I looked but I couldnt find any kind of basic config for it.... any help.... ?

[deflux]

nm, compiled w/ xinerama support, all is good

[yuza]

Darckness: I had coded a little patch a while ago to have the window on the current desktop when you maximize it, i.e. not moving to another dekstop but having the window on the current dekstop instead of the desktop in which it was minimized. PM me if you are interested

[monkey89]

Aside from GL being buggy, it's almost perfect... However, if I run an app I haven't made a mapping for using the custom gant_engage theme, I don't get the usual question mark from the none theme - I get a random little arrow on the desktop, and looking at some other engage screenshots, it appears everyone gets this.

I've looked at none.edc off of the cvs along with the .edc from the gant theme, and I can't make heads or tails of it, and nothing seems right to me. The "Unknown" GENERIC_APP_MAPPING seems to do nothing. Has anyone figured out either how to get the question mark to reappear, but most importantly, how to get that stupid arrow off of the desktop?

In the mean time, I just recompiled the theme to get rid of the arrow. This isn't a great solution though...

-Monkey

[tr4nce]

Hello!
I am mod gant_engage, and i wonder if there is any way to change engage size, width 4 example?

[opqdan]

I am having a problem that I have not seen mentioned earlier in the thread.

When I add an app to the bar it shows up and the icon that I set looks fine. Everything about the bar works except for one thing. Every launcher launches the same application as the first on the i added. Even the text that shows up above the icon shows the text from the first one I added.

I set up the icons:

[Teetante]

I can run engage without any problem, but I only get "?" icons for every application I started before.

I found out that I can suppress that behavior by using the options "-I 1 -i1" so that's an improvement, I also managed to start a watch in it (via copying "expedition.eet" to ~/.e/apps/engage/sysicons).

But I cannot get any launchers to show up.

emerge engage (version 9999 from CVS) did not get me the "build_icon.sh" script but I managed to get it from a theme file I downloaded at atmos.org.

I _have_ .eet files under ~/.e/apps/engage/launcher and I created them with the build_icons.sh script.
The same files show up in iconbar if I copy them to ~/.e/iconbar/icons .

EDIT:
The Launchers don't work in iconbar, a click on them does not do anything

I used (as an example)
build_icon.sh firefox /usr/bin/firefox Firefox-bin "" firefox
This gives me an firefox.eet file-thingy.

Any suggestions?
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[kungfooguru]

http://198.37.24.222/engage.html

I hope to take more once i get E17 working and i'll post those.

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