request: changing order of applets + possible bug: panel systray applet display

[J G Miller]

Yes I know that it clearly states that the order of widgets on the EDE panel is currently fixed and one day may respect the order specifiede in ede-panel.conf.

So as I only want to change the order of those after taskbar to

system_tray,cpu_monitor,mem_monitor,clock

I decided to dig into the code and see if a simple re-ordering to my preference was possible.

I thought the order was being determined by this list of items in Panel.cpp, so changed the order there

#ifndef EDE_PANEL_LOCAL_APPLETS
                "start_menu,"
                "quick_launch,"
                "pager,"
                "taskbar,"
                "system_tray"
                "cpu_monitor,"
# ifdef __linux__
                "mem_monitor,"
# endif
                "battery_monitor,"
                "keyboard_layout,"
                "clock,"
#else /* EDE_PANEL_LOCAL_APPLETS */
                "./applets/start-menu/start_menu,"
                "./applets/quick-launch/quick_launch,"
                "./applets/pager/pager,"
                "./applets/taskbar/taskbar,"
                "./applets/system-tray/system_tray"
                "./applets/cpu-monitor/cpu_monitor,"
# ifdef __linux__
                "./applets/mem-monitor/mem_monitor,"
# endif
                "./applets/battery-monitor/battery_monitor,"
                "./applets/keyboard-layout/keyboard_layout,"
                "./applets/clock/clock,"
#endif /* EDE_PANEL_LOCAL_APPLETS */

After recompiling and launching ede-panel, the order of applets was not changed.

Obviously I am not understanding the code correctly, and after further examination, do not see exactly, how the order is being determined, other than via EDE_PANEL_APPLET_OPTION_property hardcoded into each applet source file and queried in panel::do_layout and thus not so simple to adjust to get my preferred order.

Also in my testing there appears to possibly be a bug in the systray applet display because it is only showing the HP icon for hp-systray)when I should also be seeing an icon for parcellite, pasystray, and pidgin, making a total of 4 (which all appear in "stalonetray" and the systray of other panels eg bmpanel2, fbpanel).

[Sanel Zukan]

Hi,

In ~/.config/ede/ede-panel.conf, try this:

[Panel]
applets=system_tray,cpu_monitor,mem_monitor,start_menu,clock,taskbar

Panel layout engine is kind-of messy and some applets aligns to left-only and some to right-only positions. This should be changed.

For now, ordering is a bit limited.

Also in my testing there appears to possibly be a bug in the systray applet display because it is only showing the HP icon for hp-systray)when I should also be seeing an icon for parcellite, pasystray, and pidgin,

Are you using standard panel or modified one?