Mailing List lswitcher-dev@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #83

From: "Gregg Young" <lswitcher-dev@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [lswitcher-dev] lSwitcher-2-92-0-RC_12.wpi
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 20:15:23 -0600 (MDT)
To: "lSwitcher Developers Mailing List" <lswitcher-dev@2rosenthals.com>

On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 01:04:42 +0200 Alfredo Fernández Díaz wrote:
>
>On 20/09/26 23:01, Gregg Young wrote:
>>On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 01:11:07 +0200 Alfredo Fern⌂¨«ndez D⌂¨«az wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>On 20/09/25 22:31, Gregg Young wrote:
>[...]
>>>>Reduce desktop now behaves differently with a non sizable taskbar
>>>>verses
>>>>a sizable one. In both cases maximized window won't cover the
>>>>taskbar.
>>>
>>>This works great, thank you! (I mean the 'pseudo-reduce Desktop' with
>>>the autosizable bar). I still need to test this a bit more, but this
>>>may
>>>be goodbye to the old version at last :-)
>>>
>>>>The actual reduce desktop call to PMMERGE only occurs with the non
>>>>sizable taskbar and probably won't work correctly if another
>>>>application >>> (e.g. xCenter) is also trying to use it.
>>>
>>>Question: is it possible to detect if some other application is
>>>reducing
>>>the Desktop?
>>
>>Probably yes but that doesn't solve the problem. It does no good for me
>>to
>>check if lSwitcher is opened before the xCenter. If lSwitcher has
>>reduced
>>the desktop and then xCenter does the same the damage is done. While I
>>can
>>tell that xCenter has been opened by then it is too late to do
>>anything.
>
>Of course, I see. But if the code in XCenter did the same, I mean, if
>"reduce Desktop" is checked, check if something is using it already on
>startup, and act accordingly, wouldn't it all appear to work OK? At
>least no application would cause the other to fail, and it's not like
>there are many more to interfere out there. Am I missing something else?

You have a plan for forcing the update of XWP on all systems and preventing the use of Warp Center which we can't fix and you know for certain these are the only programs that use this?

>
>>
>>If it were, I would think to do the 'pseudo-reduce' when
>>>somebody else (i.e. XCenter) is already doing it, or the 'actual'
>>>reduction otherwise, no matter whether the bar is autoresizable.
>>
>>So you like the Desktop titlebar? This is a PM feature not something I
>>am doing.
>
>Nope, sorry, I misunderstood why that appeared -- thought it was a
>glitch like resizing non-resizable windows, etc.
>
>
>[...]
>>>I've moved the "Ctrl+Alt+" label a bit to the left to try and avoid
>>>clipping it in the Spanish UI,
>>
>>Updated. It still wasn't quite right here. Try the attached.
>
>Almost there, see attachment. Could you move it further left to align
>with 'Idioma' above, maybe? I think we'd be done for good.

On my system if I do that I see a strange clipped box following the + sign. I can move 'Idioma' to the right if you like. Thanks

Gregg

>
>>and I've noticed there's a problem with
>>>your IPF building environment, which fails to format notes (":nt.")
>>>properly, see screenshot. The file builds fine here, so I never
>>>noticed
>>
>>This is a stupid wipfc trick. I found the problem with it and it now
>>works
>>as expected. Thanks
>
>:)
>
>OK, more:
>
>-Open a WPS folder window. Bring up the PM popup, 'C' is for close,
>and works; good. Open the folder again, bring up the popup menu for
>the folder on the taskbar ('Move' is in there, btw): now 'Close' is a
>submenu with 'Close' and 'Quit', and 'Quit' does nothing, as I half
>expected. I suppose that's meant for applications (which have 'Close',
>'Quit', 'SigKill', 'DosKill'...)

I am not clear as to what you are telling me here.

>
>-Packaging: any particular reason why we keep old English readmes, i.e.
>readme.v*?

I always package the historic readmes on my first release. They can probably go away now. Thanks

Gregg


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