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Desktop Widgets for eCS-OS2 ??

Started by miturbide, 2011.03.24, 23:28:42

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Ben



It never surprises me that people will take time out of their busy day to sh*t on someone else's work, but will not raise a finger to offer support, credit, kind words, best wishes, or... get this... a well thought out idea that can enhance the subject! :o

Put plainly for the plain... it never surprises me how people will go out of their way to pick the bleeding scabs off of someone else's arse, but cannot muster up the miniscule, minimum and offer up aid.

To me, any software that someone is providing at the cost of their own time and effort, that can offer some benefit to someone else, questionable or not, deserves at the least, neutrality where help or kind words are not available or simply... too much effort to type.

To Salvador the porter and to Martin the bearer of good news, thanks and keep up the good work!

I'm sure that some people will enjoy your work and I hope that it might lay the foundation for other easing other ports.



ivan

Ben, if you are complaining that I said I would like some productivity apps rather than eye-candy - so be it, some of us do have to work for a living rather than play at the computer.

At the moment it is nearly 9 in the evening here and I'm typing this while I wait for a rather long print run to finish.

Nowhere did I pour scorn on anyone's work - if that is what they want to do then jolly good show, just don't expect me to get excited about it.  I also just happen to think there are more important things needed for OS/2 to keep it as a viable operating system for business.  I know IBM has given up on it but there are still a lot of places using OS/2, at least over here in Europe, and I don't want to see it fall by the wayside because of a lack of business applications.

You may find it strange but I do agree with your last two sentences.

ivan

Ben

#17

Ivan...

I can and do, write for myself. Rearranging my words to give them a new meaning that I had not thought about and did not write, is teli.

I spoke generically and not specifically; I am no coward and I have no problem pointing fingers and naming names. If I did not name names, then it was general and intentionally non-specific.

I suspect that you did not fully understand my message, (language?), or you could not have written the message that you did write in reply.

Having said all of that, if someone has voluntarily picked up a shoe, tried it on, and it fits, then what can one say and what can you expect?

:D

At any rate, if we agree on most of it then at least we are crossing paths and not crossing swords.  ;)

Cross swords? What's the point? (Pun intended.)


Pete

Hi Ben

I'm not really sure that I know what you are bitching about.

Someone posted about this kludget engine and the applets/widgets that go with it.

I expressed my opinion and other people expressed theirs.

You seem to have posted a broadside against those who expressed a lack of interest/excitement about these kudgets - including me.

However, you are welcome to your opinion  :-)

I certainly wish the person porting kludgets every success - just don't have any interest in kludgets myself though.

I certainly do not think they will attract new users no matter how many widgets get ported. However, it is possible that I will get proved wrong  :-)


Regards

Pete


Ben



"bitching"?


Do you know the meaning of the word? Do you know how to apply it appropriately? Or are you just "bitching", to use the word correctly.

If you don't, I could tell you clearly so that all confusion will be removed...

--

What I meant was clearly stated and was to the point.

If you don't like like it, tough.

Both you and Ivan, have stepped forward to prove my point by, (yet another), voluntarily, (that's the funny part), first hand demonstration, making my point for me.

Yet I did not point at either of you. It seems conclusive then, that guilt, is a great motivator!  :D

You take time to waste time by sh*tting  on things... repeatedly it seems... relishing in declination.

So you, Pete,  have one shoe, and Ivan has the other, both voluntarily picked up, (not thrown at you), in an act of self-identification and public announcement. What a pair!, (pun once again, intended).

Do you even know what that means?

It means if my words did not apply to you then guilt would not, could not, have made you step forward at take the words that I sent to... no one in particular, and turn it upon yourselves in an act of self-mutilation.

Don't you boys read over what you write before you hit the "Post" button? It seems not.

And if neither of you understand that, (and I doubt very much that you do), then I'll leave you to yourselves... which is a fitting place for you two to be.

And for chrissake, find something more useful... more productive, at which to spend your time typing... sheez!




Pete

Hi Ben

To be honest it looks simply like you got out the wrong side of bed...

Regards

Pete

miturbide

Guys, please keep it nice.
Your opinions are respected. We may share or not them, thats all.
Martín Itúrbide
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miturbide

I had been evaluating other desktop tools. One that got my attention was QT4 "Taskbar".

I still have some issues with the transparencies. I tested it on a VM and on real hardware with SNAP and sometimes the transparency locks, and the image at the background get stuck with the taskbar.

But, here it is a video testing Taskbar on the eCS inside a VM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPnCC8eC0I
(Your eyes might hurt with my wallpaper)

(non- flash users, you may turn youtube HTML5 mode on , works for firefox 4 and 6)
Martín Itúrbide
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sXwamp

Quote from: miturbide on 2011.08.25, 18:28:58
I had been evaluating other desktop tools. One that got my attention was QT4 "Taskbar".

I still have some issues with the transparencies. I tested it on a VM and on real hardware with SNAP and sometimes the transparency locks, and the image at the background get stuck with the taskbar.

But, here it is a video testing Taskbar on the eCS inside a VM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPnCC8eC0I
(Your eyes might hurt with my wallpaper)

(non- flash users, you may turn youtube HTML5 mode on , works for firefox 4 and 6)

I tried that out too,  but I had problems with some programs.  They would default to making the Taskbar directory their home directory ?!?!  Have you had anything like that had to you ???

miturbide

Sorry sXwamp, I didn't understand you.

I had taskbar installed on C:\Programs\taskbar\
It created two files on the \home\default\ directory .taskbar_qt4_db and -taskbar_qt4_rc, both are xml text files with the shortcouts information inside the bar.

It is not perferct, I have some issues with the transparency, but works fine calling .exe programs.
Martín Itúrbide
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Skype - martiniturbide
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sXwamp

Quote from: miturbide on 2011.08.25, 23:53:28
Sorry sXwamp, I didn't understand you.

I had taskbar installed on C:\Programs\taskbar\
It created two files on the \home\default\ directory .taskbar_qt4_db and -taskbar_qt4_rc, both are xml text files with the shortcouts information inside the bar.

It is not perferct, I have some issues with the transparency, but works fine calling .exe programs.

Sorry about that, I added PMINews and FileFreedom to the taskbar.  When I start these programs from the taskbar these two programs recreates their INI and settings in the C:\Programs\taskbar\ directory.  It seems that any program that doesn't have a home directory set will default to C:\Programs\taskbar\ as their home directory.

miturbide

sXwamp, yep.. I also have some issue with the working directory missing. Too bad this seems to be a limitation of the original software.

sXwamp, are the taskbar transparency working nice from your side?
Martín Itúrbide
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