idesk

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

a quick questions: is it possible to launch programs with a single click? how?

nikai · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 10:03 am Post subject:

I think this is supported since idesk-0.5.0, which is not in portage yet.

But you can find it here: http://idesk.timmfin.net/

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

trying to compile it, but it stops with this error:

no usernames left · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 72

You probably need to install librsvg.

emerge librsvg
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xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

librsvg 2.2.5 was already installed

should be something else

Useful Idiot · Guru Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 329 Location: Finland

From the Makefile, change:

pheelay · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 3:35 pm Post subject:

I modified idesk availble in portage slightly to launch apps with a single click. I also added a way to launch seperate commands on right click. (Useful - I have it set up to mount & browse CDs on left click and eject on right click

)

Anyone is welcome to the it if they want. Don't really know much about licenses and all - hope i'm not pissing someone off doing this!

phil

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

pheelay · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 4:37 pm Post subject:

I put it up here.

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~pheelay/idesk-0.3.5-mod.tgz

Note: I didn't really spend much time recoding. Its not nice trying to move icons around with this because the icon will launch as soon as u click on an icon. I suggest you set up icons, lock idesk thro the config file and then use this one.

Here's what to do:
emerge regular idesk - if this doesn't work then the new one wont!
Untar the above source wherever and:
# mv Makefile Makefile.orig
(replace ${CXXFLAGS} with ur CXXFLAGS/CFLAGS
# sed -e "s/-g -O2/${CXXFLAGS}/" Makefile.orig > Makefile

# make

You'll need to adjust ur icon config files also. Here's an example:

Ante · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2002 Posts: 14 Location: 127.0.0.1

pheelay · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 7:46 pm Post subject:

presumably that means that the idesk in portage didn't compile for u either?

# emerge freetype
should sort u out!

That actually looks like a bug in the idesk ebuild! It seems to depend on freetype

timmfin · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 7:51 pm Post subject:

What Xft version do you have? There were some header file problems when Xft 2 came out. I think a later revision solved some of the problems though.

I'd appreciate it if you guys emailed me some of the dependecy problems and such that you are/were having. When I have the time (as in when school lets out for the summer) I will allievate some of the problems by doing the compile and installation via automake and autoconf, and know what the problems are would help.

pheelay · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 8:55 pm Post subject:

Ante · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2002 Posts: 14 Location: 127.0.0.1

Idesk in portage copiled without any errors, did a;
emerge sync
emerge freetye xft
to get 'em to later versions, got the same errors after.
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pheelay · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 11:29 pm Post subject:

hmmm,

Ok, in the Makefile make sure
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -U__linux__
is present on the uncommented cflags line.
Mine reads:

_SkeLeToN_ · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 1:12 am Post subject:

Well the beta version of the idesk from timmfin almost compiled after I made some changes ...

First I had to fix the path for the librsvg-2 in the make file and after adding the option -I/usr/include/freetype2 -U__linux__ I almost get rid of all my error except for this.

Ante · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2002 Posts: 14 Location: 127.0.0.1

pheelay: Great thanks! It works now

Wohoo!
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timmfin · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 3:15 pm Post subject:

Libraries required by idesk:

pheelay · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 3:56 pm Post subject:

I got slightly different output on my machine. I'm not very knowledgable on libraries either - but i'll help in any way I can!

timmfin · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 11:00 pm Post subject:

Well, idesk was orginally written by Chris (Nikon) a while back. He has not been able to do anything with idesk since it got big I guess. A few people dabbled here and there, and this winter I sat down and basically recoded the whole structure. I left most of the graphics code intact, but redid the whole program in a modular OO structure. I actually probably went a bit overboard in some areas with multiple inheiratance and virtual inheiratance, but it was fun and I think it makes extending idesk easier. This recoded version was .5, and there were only a few small things added to .51 . Since .5 has svg support and such, alot more libraries are required, and in my previous post I ldd'ed idesk-0.51 and not .35, which you did (probably because you can't compile .51, which is my fault

).

Right now there are two main people working on idesk, curious and me. I have not heard anything from curious in a long time so I not completely sure if he still is. Basically I'm assuming leadership right now since there seems to be no one else there. This summer I plan to make the website I made more fully featured and make it the main idesk site, but I don't want to do that till I can make sure I can take the time to do it well. I wold be glad for you to help out.

Could you check out which versions you have of the libraries that .51 needs? I just did ls -l on the generic library name (ex: /usr/lib/libImlib.so.1) to get the version.

Glasswalker · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 38 Location: NY

timmfin: not that i claim to be a programmer or understand quite what i did but i located and downloaded a copy of rsvg.h from the net and it fixed the errors i was getting refering to it. well it did after i modified your path to it in the SimpleSvgImage.h - that fixed one problem but i still can't compile your program

the only output i get is the following:

timmfin · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 12:26 am Post subject:

Well any of the recent librsvg's should work but I recommend the latest:

Glasswalker · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 38 Location: NY

ok i replaced the original code and emerged libsvg (have version 2.2.5 now) and ran make.. it told me again that \libsvg\rsvg.h can't be found. so i changed where SimpleSVGImage.h looked for it and got the errors i added in my previous post. I think idesk looks cool and really want to get it to work but this is approaching the difficulty of getting my ide burner working :cry:

_SkeLeToN_ · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 3:25 am Post subject:

Glasswalker · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 38 Location: NY