bmpanel

japetto · 2008-04-13 18:49:04

Great job nsf!

pyther · 2008-04-29 10:53:14

I've noticed a bug, whenever I hover over a system tray icon that has a pop dialogue such as xchat, a part bar blacks out and doesn't restore until a window is clicked on.

nsf · 2008-05-03 18:43:29

pyther wrote:

I've noticed a bug, whenever I hover over a system tray icon that has a pop dialogue such as xchat, a part bar blacks out and doesn't restore until a window is clicked on.

Yes, I see this. But not sure why this is happening. I thought X should drop an expose event in that case.
Thank you for bug, I planned to rewrite a font renderer to pango and maybe I try to do something with this too. Not sure about date, when to wait a release.

Last edited by nsf (2008-05-03 18:43:55)

nsf · 2008-05-13 20:22:55

0.9.15:

This is minifix. There was a known bug in rendering code.
Also I disabled BadWindow error logging, because such errors happen often and these "errors" can't be fixed simply. When I was designing bmpanel, I didn't think about X synchronization issues. And so.. some of the functions were written with one thing in mind: "the parameters are always correct". But it's not quite true. For example X may send me "change window desktop event" and after that "window destroy event". And when bmpanel starts to process these events and ask X server for window's new desktop number, X will respond with BadWindow error, because on X server window is already destroyed. It is simple case of desync. I didn't get it before, but now it's too late
However, such desyncs are not causing errors. Well, I hope they aren't.

Last edited by nsf (2008-05-13 20:40:20)

nsf · 2008-05-18 19:59:04

Finally my gitweb and git-daemon services went online. They are hosted on my home workstation, so 2 restrictions:
1. bandwidth is only 250kbit/s
2. not 24/7 uptime (but close to it)

For bmpanel it means you can:
a) browse it's repo with your web browser here: http://jiss.convex.ru/?p=bmpanel.git;a=summary
b) clone it with git using this command: git clone git://jiss.convex.ru/bmpanel.git

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nsf · 2008-05-21 18:32:29

0.9.16:

Main change here is new fontconfig font searching style. No more f**king ugly file names. Everything is nice and sweet now. Be careful when using with custom themes, all font theme lines should be updated.
For more info see: http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html (but not all options will work with bmpanel)

Quick examples:
DejaVuSans-14
DejaVuSans-8:bold
Verdana-12:italic

But as before, only ttf files are acceptable.
If you have some problems with this version, please post message here or mail me. Fontconfig stuff is new to me, so I'm not sure that I did everything right.

Thank you for using bmpanel!

PS: And as always I forgot to update version number. So, don't believe to what bmpanel --version says. Fixed in git.
PPS: Also I should add fontconfig dependency in PKGBUILD (this note is for me ).

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pyther · 2008-05-21 21:01:32

I still have the problem where if a systray tooltip shows up it leaves a black spot on the bar, as soon as I click on a window it get removed.

Maybe its possible to "refresh" the bar when a tooltip disappears?

nsf · 2008-05-22 05:07:36

pyther wrote:

I still have the problem where if a systray tooltip shows up it leaves a black spot on the bar, as soon as I click on a window it get removed.
Maybe its possible to "refresh" the bar when a tooltip disappears?

Of course you have. I didn't work on that. I have few thought how it can be fixed, maybe today I'll try to do something (no promises).
PS: Also screenshot of the problem would be helpful.

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lyrae · 2008-05-22 05:45:20

nsf wrote:

0.9.16:
Main change here is new fontconfig font searching style. No more f**king ugly file names. Everything is nice and sweet now. Be careful when using with custom themes, all font theme lines should be updated.
For more info see: http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html (but not all options will work with bmpanel)
Quick examples:
DejaVuSans-14
DejaVuSans-8:bold
Verdana-12:italic
But as before, only ttf files are acceptable.
If you have some problems with this version, please post message here or mail me. Fontconfig stuff is new to me, so I'm not sure that I did everything right.
Thank you for using bmpanel!
PS: And as always I forgot to update version number. So, don't believe to what bmpanel --version says. Fixed in git.
PPS: Also I should add fontconfig dependency in PKGBUILD (this note is for me ).

Great, thanks for the update. Just one problem, conky now appears on taskbar in pekwm when it shouldn't. Doesn't happen with version 1.2. (last update I used)

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nsf · 2008-05-22 06:39:14

lyrae wrote:

Great, thanks for the update. Just one problem, conky now appears on taskbar in pekwm when it shouldn't. Doesn't happen with version 1.2. (last update I used)

Can you post a screenshot? And version 1.2 of what? Conky?

lyrae · 2008-05-22 06:55:11

nsf wrote:

lyrae wrote:
Great, thanks for the update. Just one problem, conky now appears on taskbar in pekwm when it shouldn't. Doesn't happen with version 1.2. (last update I used)
Can you post a screenshot? And version 1.2 of what? Conky?

The last update I used was bmpanel 0.9.12. Sorry about that.

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nsf · 2008-05-22 07:40:19

lyrae wrote:

The last update I used was bmpanel 0.9.12. Sorry about that.

Ah.. I see.. I thought conky window itself overlaps somehow bmpanel, that's why I asked for screenshot I will see what changes caused that.

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nsf · 2008-05-22 08:24:14

0.9.17

Here we go.
lyrae, your issue with conky is fixed.
pyther, your issue with ignoring exposure events is fixed too.

Please check and let me know if everything is ok.

lyrae · 2008-05-22 09:45:47

nsf wrote:

0.9.17
Here we go.
lyrae, your issue with conky is fixed.
pyther, your issue with ignoring exposure events is fixed too.
Please check and let me know if everything is ok.

Sorry to report that the conky issue is still there.

pyther · 2008-05-22 10:30:12

nsf wrote:

0.9.17
Here we go.
lyrae, your issue with conky is fixed.
pyther, your issue with ignoring exposure events is fixed too.
Please check and let me know if everything is ok.

Thank you! It is fixed!!
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner and posting a screenshot.

nsf · 2008-05-22 10:36:17

lyrae wrote:

Sorry to report that the conky issue is still there.

ok, can you give me your conky config?
There is an option in conkyrc:

own_window_type
              if  own_window  is  yes,  you  may  specify type normal, desktop or override (default: normal).
              Desktop windows are special windows that have no window decorations; are always visible on your
              desktop;  do  not appear in your pager or taskbar; and are sticky across all workspaces.  Over-
              ride windows are not under the control of the window manager. Hints are ignored. This  type  of
              window can be useful for certain situations.

Bmpanel was ignoring 'desktop' window type and didn't hide conky's window from task bar. So I did necessary changes and checked with 'own_window_type desktop' and everything was ok. I think it might be a pekmw issue

pyther wrote:

Thank you! It is fixed!!

I'm glad to hear it.

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lyrae · 2008-05-22 12:00:45

nsf wrote:

lyrae wrote:
Sorry to report that the conky issue is still there.
ok, can you give me your conky config?
There is an option in conkyrc:
own_window_type
              if  own_window  is  yes,  you  may  specify type normal, desktop or override (default: normal).
              Desktop windows are special windows that have no window decorations; are always visible on your
              desktop;  do  not appear in your pager or taskbar; and are sticky across all workspaces.  Over-
              ride windows are not under the control of the window manager. Hints are ignored. This  type  of
              window can be useful for certain situations.
Bmpanel was ignoring 'desktop' window type and didn't hide conky's window from task bar. So I did necessary changes and checked with 'own_window_type desktop' and everything was ok. I think it might be a pekmw issue

Glad to report it is fixed. Thanks

nsf · 2008-05-22 13:03:41

lyrae wrote:

Glad to report it is fixed. Thanks

Nice.

So, there is one more known bug to go. Some apps may change their task bar icon during run and bmpanel doesn't react on this type of events. This fix is planned for next release.

nsf · 2008-05-22 13:37:41

Release early, release often!

0.9.18:

Proper taskbar icon redraws.
Now if application changes it's icon during run, these changes reflect in taskbar immediately.

I think this version is 'stable', because there are no more known bugs.
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I'm looking for talanted artists that can create various nice, "clean", "neutral-looking" themes, because panel really lacks them.
Don't afraid to mail me link to your theme screenshot (at imageshack.us or so) or drop message here. I want to place some themes on my web or even in the bmpanel distro.

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nsf · 2008-05-26 08:47:12

Great news for bmpanel users. I'm working on compositing managers support for bmpanel.
Here is a neat screenshot (notice partial transparency):
http://www.picamatic.com/show/2008/05/2 … 40x900.png

If I will find some good artists to work with, Vista will suck

Last edited by nsf (2008-05-26 08:53:47)

Diaz · 2008-05-26 10:00:16

cool i would be glad to see some real tranparency and some cool themes, that's exactly what this panel needs

Ashren · 2008-05-26 11:07:06

nsf>> Great news indeed! Are you using xcompmgr in the screenshot?

nsf · 2008-05-26 11:16:47

Ashren wrote:

nsf>> Great news indeed! Are you using xcompmgr in the screenshot?

Yes, it's xcompmgr.
Here is another screenshot, I have converted this theme (found in screenshots/artwork forums here) to bmpanel's format. Does anyone know the author of this theme? I want to ask for his permission about that.
http://www.picamatic.com/show/2008/05/2 … 40x900.png

nsf · 2008-05-26 14:29:18

And one more screeny fully showing new bmpanel skinning abilities. Sorry, I'm bad artist.
http://www.picamatic.com/show/2008/05/2 … 40x900.jpg (jpg version, 200kb)
http://www.picamatic.com/show/2008/05/2 … 40x900.png (png version, 900kb)

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pyther · 2008-05-26 15:39:20

Nice!

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