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IDesk icon configurator

mrfrank [czechfox at sbcglobal.net]


Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:07:43 -0500

ATTN:Ben Okopnik

Just happened to run across the question in Linux Gazette Mar issue about idesk. Just so happens I finally got idesk up a couple hrs ago using your info at http://linuxgazette.net/160/okopnik.html then downloaded your idesk icon configurator. Small problem at this end.

Instead of showing icons, I get a series of 'Submit Query' in my browser. If I configure a link by clicking on one of the 'Submit Query's it makes my link just fine, even giving me the complete path to the .png file & the .png on the desktop link, even though the icon itself is no shown in browser.

This is a sample of the source code showing icon names;

<h3 style="background-color: blue; color: white; text-align: center">Click  
on an icon to create the IDesk link file</h3>
<input type="image" name="24x24/places/network-server.png"  
src="24x24/places/network-server.png" vspace="2" hspace="3" />
<input type="image" name="24x24/places/folder-saved-search.png"  
src="24x24/places/folder-saved-search.png" vspace="2" hspace="3" />
<input type="image" name="24x24/places/user-home.png"  
src="24x24/places/user-home.png" vspace="2" hspace="3" />
<input type="image" name="24x24/places/gnome-fs-trash-empty.png"  
src="24x24/places/gnome-fs-trash-empty.png" vspace="2" hspace="3" />
I'm running icewm on unbuntu 9.04. Browser is firefox 3.08. Also Opera, but Opera shows a rectangle with 'image' in it. If I copy the source and insert /home/xxxxxxx/.idesktop/builder/ into
<input type="image" name="24x24/places/user-home.png"  
src="24x24/places/user-home.png" vspace="2" hspace="3" />

so it looks like this:

<input type="image" name="24x24/places/user-home.png"  
src="/home/xxxxxxx/.idesktop/builder/24x24/places/user-home.png"  
vspace="2" hspace="3" />
the icon shows o.k. I don't know cgi, but I played around with idesk.cgi but can't figure out how to get the full path to the .png files to show in the html.

Any ideas how I can get the full path to show in the html?

Thank you.

later xxxxxxx


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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:27:46 -0400

On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 07:07:43AM -0500, mrfrank wrote:

>
> ATTN:Ben Okopnik
>
> 	Just happened to run across the question in Linux Gazette Mar issue about
> idesk. Just so happens I finally got idesk up a couple hrs ago using your 
> info at http://linuxgazette.net/160/okopnik.html
> then downloaded your idesk icon configurator. Small problem at this end.  
> Instead of showing icons,
> I get a series of 'Submit Query' in my browser.

This means that the images aren't there to be displayed. In the "Setting up" section, there's a set of instructions that takes care of this; in essence, you need to install the 'gnome-icon-theme' package and to create a link in the .idesktop/builder/ directory called 24x24 that points to the appropriate directory in /usr/share/icons/gnome. Please ensure that this has been done, and that should work.

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *


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