[haiku-development] Re: tracker patch

"Michael Berg" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I keep my desktop extremely sparse.  This idea came about when I was 
> really
> big into custom wallpapers.  My current desktop has only the boot 
> drive, my
> home folder, a link to my development folder and the trash.  Since 
> all these
> icons are custom I don't need to see the text.  I guess I feel it 
> clutters
> it up.  The only change to this I would make is to add tool tips for 
> when
> multiple files have similar icons.  Your question is why I set it 
> default to
> true.  That way it is only there if someone wants it.

I wouldn't like to add that patch - it's something that only very very 
few people would ever want to use IMO. I hope it's okay to keep that 
change locally to your installation.
However, for this kind of customizations, maybe a patch repository 
would be nice to have - where you can choose between different patches 
to the mainline that did not or not yet found their way into the trunk.

> PS One other patch I have is also a superficial change to Deskbar.  
> It adds
> what I call an end cap to the running apps list.  It was my fist 
> attempt at
> hacking deskbar.

That sounds interesting - how exactly does it work?

> I was hoping to expand it into a shelf for replicants, but
> I know that Haiku is heading down a different road so I've held off.

For now, yes :-)

Bye,
   Axel.

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