When the new taskbar applet landed in ede-panel, application icons were fetched in pretty standard way: inspect _NET_WM_ICON hint and decode image data, if application set it.
However, I overlooked one major feature of mentioned _NET_WM_ICON: this hint can support multiple icons (by different sizes), and modern GUI applications are starting to use it extensively. I added support for this in one of recent commits.
Continue reading →Recently I played a little bit with Pharo (which is a fork of Squeak Smalltalk) and I was quite impressed with it. Since this was my first connection with Smalltalk, the language simplicity and clarity struck me hard, wondering why we are still living in dark ages of C++/Java or whatever language that is daring to call itself Object Oriented.
A perfect companion for this language comes in form of it's own environment: you have a full desktop under single executable which isn't desktop in a normal sense: it is much more like environment of objects, where everything you touch and move (window, button) is a true object.
Continue reading →During these slow preparations for 2.0 release, I figure out how EDE does not have any kind of notification service, where applications could report custom statuses.
I'm using Fedora Xfce Spin, where I replaced Xfce with EDE and recently I removed all Xfce applications and libraries from the system. This affected Xfce custom notification daemon which displayed various infos (e.g. firefox download status, VirtualBox driver update and such). AFAIK, more and more apps are using this notification specification which is good.
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