MX-23 Fluxbox development

[kobaian]

9. Yes. I think it is a good idea to have a fully configurable power-menu. It won't be a problem to adapt existing themes for that purpose, there are also many interesting ones in the Internet.

11. It's 2023! Who cares now about printing pictures? Let's think about forests and world-ecosystem

12. And what about moving from Thunar to zzzFM?

[dolphin_oracle]

one more:

develop method in startup that would process autostart entries from /etc/xdg/autostart, and ~/.config/autostart. this would simplify the startup file greatly. we would probably need to add some some of autostart selection tool, like xfce and KDE have.

[wdscharff]

... you were right about it setting the wallpaper, thanks; we would have to set that with the install. I like the low mem usage, speed and basic functions--like everything else, user can use MXPI to upgrade (gThumb, Mirage, Gimp, etc.) as needed.

My first reaction to viewnior was negative, but in the meantime I have also set viewnior as default.
Now I just have to find a practical solution for Wallpper in dual monitor mode, then even Nitrogen would become superfluous :)

[Jerry3904]

@dolphin_oracle added both, thanks

[siamhie]

7. change desktop files for mxfb-look and mx-rofi-manager into general names: Look manager, Rofi manager.


Rofi manager works but how about something like this for mxfb-look = Desktop manager?

[Jerry3904]

That seems ambiguous--but maybe some other name is a good idea for the collection of all appearance choices.

Thanks.

[siamhie]

My first thought was Desktop Theme manager but we're not really creating themes with the app.

How about something like Appearance manager? We already have an Appearance sub-category off the root menu and this would just tie all the settings together.

[Jerry3904]

That might work.

[dolphin_oracle]

on themes, I have a whole mess of code in tweak to do gtk, icon, and window manager theme selection, however, I've found no way to actually apply the gtk themes automatically, even to tweak while its running.

I played around with a little widget that launches a sort of preview window ,but it wsa kludgey.

the code is active in tweak, I just hid the selection boxes for now.

[Melber]

1. use rofi as appfinder substitute
OK. Would xfce-appfinder still be included in default installation?

4. change F2 to rofi runbox
Would another key combo be defined in keys file for the current F2 "rename file" function? eg. ctrl+ F2 currently assigned to "Exec fbrun"

5. include gkrellm in comfort style
Include how? Comfort gkrellm themes as part of default installation or generally include monitor settings in saved looks?

7. change desktop files for mxfb-look and mx-rofi-manager into general names: Look manager, Rofi manager
OK, but not sure why do you want to remove MX "branding"?
New names:
Rofi-manager OK, does what it says on the box
Look Manager/Appearance Manager: not sure manager is the right word. I always liked "Look Library"

8. figure out how to translate labels in the idesk icon files
fehlix, DO?

9. use a Rofi power manager instead of exit-options ?
Thumbs up, all hail Rofi-Master Kobaian

11. switch to viewnior or mirage (< Ceeslans) instead of gThumb
Had a quick look at it. Seems OK for a simple viewer.
What is the problem with gThumb?
What is the difference to feh, imagemagick?
Do we need all three in the default install?

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15. Fluxbox menu
- edit appearance submenu to hide legacy styles as default

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    [submenu] (Style)
         	[stylesdir] (~/.fluxbox/styles)
         	# Uncomment to show legacy fluxbox styles
		# [stylesdir] (/usr/share/fluxbox/styles)
		[end]

or hide them under a flyout menu

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    [submenu] (Style)
         	[stylesdir] (~/.fluxbox/styles)
			[submenu] (Legacy Styles)
			[stylesdir] (/usr/share/fluxbox/styles)
			[end]
		[end]

- add tint2manager to appearance submenu

- clarify what the toolbar options actually set
eg. Tint2 (default)/Fluxbox Legacy rather than Fluxbox/Traditional

16. Include font-awesome in default installation

17. Amend or include additional links in MX-Tour help tab to open mxfb specific help docs.

18. MX-Tweak
(sounds like DO has already done some of this behind the scenes)
Include settings and or button to launch app for appearance options as in fb-menu
conky: button > conky manager
docks: include show/hide
icons: ok as is
monitors: include show/hide
style: Change 1st Tab name from Theme to Style
theme: button > LX-Appearance
toolbar: ok as is
wallpaper: button > Nitrogen

19. MX-Look
Develop a set of looks to be included in the default installation to give user a choice between a few presets setups in MX-Look.
Preset Looks should only use wallpapers, fonts, conkies, tint2's etc included in default install.
Maybe just something simple like comfort-blue, comfort-red, comfort-green etc, maybe totally different looks depending on available time between MX23 wallpaper selection and release.