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gotmor

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Touch Screen Icons for dzen2

Hey guys,

touch screens are more and more prominent in the modern computing world so I'm looking for ideas and scripts to make them useful with dzen2.

As you might know dzen2 (SVN) does support stackable, clickable areas using the ^ca() command. That way it's extremly easy to create simple
touch bars that will launch any command you could think of, e.g.:

echo '^ca(1,uzbl-browser)^bg(blue)^i(/path/to/uzbl.xpm)UZBL^ca()\  
^ca(1,xterm -e mc)^ca(2,pcmanfm)^bg(green)^i(/path/to/filemanager.xpm)Files^ca()^ca()'\
| dzen2 -p

The above code will create a simple dzen bar with two items, Uzbl and Files, when clicking with the left mouse button into the former it will spawn uzbl.
While the latter will either launch mc when cliked with the left button or pcmanfm when clicked with the middle button.

So what I'm looking for is icons suitable for touch screen use and ideas on how to integrate dzen2 into touch scenarios.

Some already available custom icon packs can be seen here:  Dzen icon packs

Thanks for your attention, Rob.

Last edited by gotmor (2010-09-06 21:16:47)