Foal 0.4 release (Familiar Open Application Launcher) (+ DOCKING)

> Foal looks nice. Couple of things, though:
>
> o Why does it install its own pixmaps? Oughtn't it to use
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/pixmaps/ (not that that directory exists, but
> it should). Maybe icondir should be a search path to locate matching
> xpm's?

You can specify multiple directories in icondir, separated by semicolons.
You can also have multiple icondir entries, which are cumulative. Foal
assumes it should search the local directory and a subdirectory called
"icons", so you can clear any previous icondir entries with "icondir clear",
to override that.

> o Why doesn't it use tooltips, preferring instead to pop up
> something like tooltips alongside the box.

I tried using tooltips but the problem is in the behaviour. They get
displayed if you leave the mouse over a widget for a while, or if you click
on a QueryTip widget, then on the button you are interested in. Obviously,
this doesn't work on a touchscreen, so I had to do something else. Ideally,
though, Gtk would have a set_touchscreen function in the Tooltip objects,
which would make them behave more like FoalTips(tm). (Perhaps it already has
something like this?) And I didn't like the placement of tips.

As an aside, there's docking code in Foal which I've been tinkering with. I
can now get xclock, xmms and a few other apps to dock nicely but
fstroke/fscrib doesn't want to play. I think it may be requesting a
zero-dimension window allocation. Has anyone else seen this problem?

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall

--
          "The path to enlightenment is /usr/bin/enlightenment"
Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge - Tel : 766513
AT&T Labs Cambridge, UK                              - Tel : 343000