alright, I've been over the docs and such and STILL can't figure this one out! How the HE(double hockey sticks) do you add a desktop icon in LS?! If someone would be kind enough to give me an example, I'd be forever greatful!
AFAIK: If your theme is using desktop2.dll (LS standard), you don't. You need a different desktop module, like jdesk.dll. I'm a noob myself though. I found that I don't miss the desktop icons very much. I use the shortcuts-folder instead.
The desktop module, be it desktop2 or jdesk, only provides the desktop, not the icons or anything else that goes on top of it.
<a href-"http://www.litestep.net/index.php?section=4&action=details&id=111">See this thread.</a>
Er, <a href="http://www.litestep.net/index.php?section=4&action=details&id=111">this one.</a> How did I get that wrong?
Cosmic ray impact, causing a random bit flip?
who needs icons on the desktop, anyway... hotkeys, my friend, hotkeys...
i prefer a !PopupDynamicFolder:"$desktop$"
i have a sort of reverse question like that (sorry to be digging up old treads) i need to know how to get my desktop icons to go away. for some reason with any theme i use, they stay there and generate unholy amounts of system slowness. help me!
stop running LS on top of exploder :)
Look in the "code" forum, i've posted a few step.rc lines you can use to make the desktop icons appear. Note that all desktop icon modules are a bit buggy.
And noone still has not released a fully working, bugfree desktop icons module. What a ls world of 4-5 years...
feel free to create such a bugfree desktop icons module.
Supply and demand, my friend. If there aren't any good desktop icon modules out there, that's probably because not many people want one.
Humm, I guess many people want a good icon module.
But, what is a "good" icon module ?
- launch app on single-click.
- real transparency support.
- moving capabilities.
- drag'n'drop support, or...
- ...a way to know the path of the current folder. I think this is what's missing in deskfolders: something like !deskfolder name !bang (call !bang with the path of the folder name as parameter)
try icondesktop, just released by sci. you can download it from
http://www.alphafish.com
sryo: I just read the icondesktop txt file. Sounds nice :)
But, as it is based on desktop2 (I usually prefer jDesk), mouse-up/down dealing is missing.
I have to see if it doesn't require !reloadmodule when adding stuff to the desktop folder (I guess there's no drop support - so I have to do it "manually" with labels)
(If you read again my last post, you'll see that it's not the module I'm looking for... But I guess it will make many people happy)
it's a seperate module now (3 updates in one day)
Nifty I just set it up with jdesk, so I can drop stuff right into the folder, it works quite well. I've also set up an on/off toggle in my popup up to hide and show the icons on my desktop, pretty handy for a workspace. Now if only jdesk allowed folders to be dropped. :)
The problem is with the coders. They just dont continue their interest after they coding the module. And therefore all the developments stops.
Ilmcuts, if I was a professional coder, I would definitely start module coding, but I'm a half coder with little knowledge. (VB, etc.)
Maduin, I know people want them. Even there's the need of Windows' QuickLaunch. But the modules again start & then stop in development.
I wish IconDesk 0.41 wont stop before all important properties of the module could be done.
And by the way as I analyzed the module;
it can be used to be a desktop icons module and ALSO a quicklauncher.
No one here is a professional coder.
Deedstyger: if a coder stops developing a module anyone else can get the source and keep development. You can get IconDesk src from
http://www.alphafish.com
Ilmcuts, whatever. I'm blaming noone and you know that. That ends this conversation.
Sryo: I'd already done that. Thanks for your kindness.
Anyways, I have a question back on topic about desktop theme. I'm using Desktopfolders which has the famous dont-have-anything-over-the-area-while-recycling feature in it. I assume that desktopfolders is taking a virtual screenshot and then cutting the coordinates out of it based off of the x,y specifications?
If so, wouldn't a better way to do it would be to open the background file virtually, and then locate the proper dimensions and coordinates that way, then copy and paste it into the background of the desktop?
That way, no matter how many windows you had on top of the area where your desktop icons were, it would just be pulling the data from the background file, and not what was actually on the desktop. It seems that whoever could (if in fact this is how it works) program a screenshot/coordinate based background, would make it possible to do the file/coordinate based background. Anyways, if this sounds plausible, lemme know and I'll take a look at the source code and see what I can do.
deskfolders source was lost...
Yes, I would eventually done it that way but I lost the source code. That is the way I handled it in Label.
I'm continually amazed to find that there are still people using DeskFolders. It's old, it's buggy, and there is no way it'll ever be updated.
Except the transparency problem, i think it works fine. The real problem (in my case) is that you can't move it.