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Re: dockable apps for icewm?



On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:00:25PM +0100, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using Icewm with a nice and lean theme for quite a while
> now and find it very nice.  However, I have been unable to find any
> applications that would dock in the taskbar (except for the network,
> mail, and APM monitors that come with it).  There seem to be tons of
> applets out there for Gnome, Windowmaker, or KDE, but none for
> Icewm. :-(
> 
> The things I would really like to have are:
> 
>         - ICQ (possibly a licq frontend)
>         - an ACPI monitor
>         - a keymap selector
> 
> Does anybody know of such applets?

There aren't any applets; icewm's architecture is radically different
from e.g. Gnome. 

Much of the "lightness" in icewm comes from the fact that it runs as a
single process, whereas e.g. gnome runs one process per panel (and
typically yet another process per applet). Everything that icewm does is
built into that process.

> If those do not exist, it might be easy to adapt existing applets to
> make them icewm-compatible.  Does anybody have any experience with
> icewm-programming and could point me to some documentation on this (I
> will be looking for it myself but haven't got around to do so yet).

You should be able to hack the source; beware though that even though it
is somewhat nicely structured, it does not allow for adding/removing
elements at run-time.

HTH
-- 
Karl E. Jørgensen
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