New beta version of “Toolbar Icon Manager for IceWM”

[Member PPC]

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Hi folks, yesterday I was tired and upload the wrong script 🙁
Here is the “final” T.I.M. version 1…

Code available at:
https://pastebin.com/raw/pwEjxsX1

Fixed a regression: the script did not try to perform a search for missing application icons
Added: search in one more .desktop folder (script has a NOTE about how to add more .desktop folders)

Note: the add icon interface is just like the one in my recently proposed “add icon to desktop” script- so users had basically the same (I hope intuitive) way to add icons to the toolbar or desktop.

Now I’ll enjoy the rest of my week-end…

P.

EDIT: and only now downed on me that the add and remove windows could remain open until the users closes them, so it’s easier to add/remove multiple icons (I’m looking at you Moddit 🙂 )- what do you think? It would be trivial, adding an infinite loope in each of those windows…

P.

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[Member Xecure]

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Tested it for a bit. It works great.

Thanks, PPC.

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[Moderator BobC]

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I tested your new script as well, and I didn’t have any problems, either.

As part of his helping with “Add a Desktop Icon” option from App-Select, Dave added the ability to add custom programs to run on the selected app right click menu, and I created an Add to Toolbar option for it. It’s based on your add code, but could be run from app-select independently or called from your script if you wanted to use it to do the adds. Since its separate, I’ll create a separate thread for it.

PS: I had added some actually unneeded icons in testing, so I went back and used your script to try to delete them, and it allowed me to select them to delete, but didn’t do it. It came back and said “no changes made” instead of removing it. I think it has problems maintaining the last icon on the list. I wasn’t able to move or remove it.

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> it allowed me to select them to delete, but didn’t do it.

del ~/.tempo ;

try “rm” instead of “del” (on some systems, the latter exists as an alias somewhere, somehow?)

[Member PPC]

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@Skidoo – thanks, I’ll edit the code, later, implementing that change..
@BobC – hum… I never had that problem before- did the icon’s entry on the toolbar file include strange characters like “(“, etc? If you can, send me the entry the script was unable to delete, so I add it to my toolbar file and check it out… I have not yet had any problems adding or removing any icon, adding one icon, removing it, adding it again and moving it around is how I test each version of the script… try implementing Skidoo’s suggestion, test removing that icon and please report back… I do hate bugs 🙁

P.

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Yes, well my toolbar has 31 icons including 2 commented out, and a blank line possibly at the end, so it’s likely an acid test. I really use it, though. Its been a wonderful productivity improver. If you can’t open it or doesn’t look right I’ll post it here. There isn’t anything really unusual about it otherwise.

https://pastebin.com/YHcq2NWX

[Member ModdIt]

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Hi PPC,
EDIT: and only now dawned on me that the add and remove windows could remain open until the users closes them,
so it’s easier to add/remove multiple icons (I’m looking at you Moddit 🙂 )- what do you think? It would be trivial,
adding an infinite loope in each of those windows…

You say trivial to setup, seems to me it would be more expected behaviour for a user.

Please go for it.

The tool is near perfect now, Many many thanks to all involved.

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[Member PPC]

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@Moddit – wish granted: now users can add as many icons as they want in a even faster way- the app’s list remains open until it’s closed- adding some 30 icons can be done in less than a minute, a bit more if the user wants them to be added in a specific order (because the user then has go to up and down the apps list, double clicking the app to add them to the toolbar).
And thanks, for your thanks- this script is my “one man show” (since I tough myself bash while writing it, it cannibalized and adapted many on-line examples of how to perform the actions I wanted the script to do…)

Other small changes:
– The “add icon” window has a single button, with a “+” sign and a small description of what it does, just for users that don’t get the hang of “double clicking”
– Corrected a bit the “advanced” dialog instructions

New code available here:
https://pastebin.com/raw/Tz5Yr2Nw

@Bob- I tried your toolbar- the fault, as I guessed, was in having a “special character” in the icon’s description, in your case a “/”- sorry, but I haven’t found a way to work around that…
The number of icons, or commented lines in the toolbar file does not affect how the script behaves… It’s “kryptonite” is strange characters, because of the way the text in the config file s processed (using sed – “/” is used by sed to indicate how it should behave)… Skidoo, if you, or someone more knowledgeable than me can find a way around that, I would appreciate the help…

So, I guess I should add a new line to the “help file”, something like:
Warning: the script can't delete icon's whose icon's description includes characteres like \|/*, etc.

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We can choose characters other than forward-slash to serve as the delimiter character.
Each of the following would be equally valid, producing identical results.

sed ‘s/shoe//g’
sed ‘s@shoe@@g’
sed ‘s_shoe__g’
sed ‘s^shoe^^g’

[Member marcelocripe]

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@PPC,

Thank you very much for updating TIM, it was excellent!

Please increase the display time of the warning windows that automatically disappear from 4 seconds to 10 seconds, with little time to read the text (when translated, of course).
Please allow to copy the text of ‘Help’, so it is easier to copy the text of TIM and paste it on the internet translator. Did you understand a logical reason? We can make it even easier for the beginner and basic user in the small details. Something that does not exist in Windows, this conversation, the user (me) can chat with the developers. Thank you very much for allowing me to come up with several suggestions and ideas.

Thank you.

marcelocripe
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@PPC,

Muito obrigado pela atualização do TIM, ficou excelente!

Por favor aumente o tempo de exibição das janelas de aviso que somem automaticamente de 4 segundos para 10 segundos, com pouco tempo não dá para ler o texto (quando for traduzido, é claro).
Por favor, permita copiar o texto da ‘Ajuda’, assim fica mais fácil de copiar o texto do TIM e colar no tradutor da internet. Entendeu um motivo lógico? Podemos facilitar para o usuário iniciante e básico até isso, nos pequenos detalhes. Algo que no Windows não existe, esta conversa, o usuário (eu) poder conversar com os desenvolvedores. Muito obrigado por me permitir apresentar diversas sugestões e ideias.

Muito obrigado.

marcelocripe
(Texto original em Português do Brasil)

[Member PPC]

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Thanks for all feeback!
@skidoo – thanks for the suggestion, but I could not implement that in my “delete icon” function 🙂

@marcelocripe – sorry, I’m putting my “scripting” on hold for now- T.I.M. works pretty well has is…
The only “bug” is when deleting icons that have descriptions with “escape characters” or special scharacters: “\ | /”, etc.

I work on antiX for fun… when this begans to stress me instead of helping me relax, it’s time to take a break…

P.

[Anonymous]

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This?
> Line=$(sed -n “/$x/=” ~/.icewm/toolbar)

To handle possibility of spaces within strings, howabout ‘/”$x”/=’
If that is not sufficient, maybe it’s time for us to crack open the “GNU awk User’s Guide and Galactic Compendium, 43rd Edition”

[Member PPC]

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@Skidoo – that’s the problematic line- but it works fine with spaces, just not / \ | and *,that break the sed command…
I’ve found a way around the “/” changing line 80 to use grep instead of “sed”, but that was as far as I got…

Line=$(grep -n -m 1 "$x" ~/.icewm/toolbar | cut -f1 -d:)

[Member marcelocripe]

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PPC wrote:
I work on antiX for fun… when this begans to stress me instead of helping me relax, it’s time to take a break…

PPC, rest. When it starts to stress, it’s time to stop.

Don’t worry, you already have a huge list of collaborations, the most recent ones I’m trying to keep up with: Control Panel, Toolbar Icon Manager for IceWM, antiX “transformation” pack (min-fluxbox with tint2 toolbar) – antiX “FT 10 ”, Unplugdrive and etc.

I thank you for all your effort, commitment and time.

Thank you.

marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese)

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PPC wrote:
I work on antiX for fun… when this begans to stress me instead of helping me relax, it’s time to take a break…

PPC, descanse. Quando isso começa a estressar é que já está na hora de parar.

Não se preocupe, você já possui um lista gigantesca de colaborações, as mais recentes que eu estou tentando acompanhar: Painel de Controle, Toolbar Icon Manager for IceWM, antiX “transformation” pack (min-fluxbox with tint2 toolbar) – antiX “FT 10”, unplugdrive e etc.

Eu agradeço por todo o seu esforço, empenho e tempo.

Muito obrigado.

marcelocripe
(Texto original em Português do Brasil)

[Moderator BobC]

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When Dave adds the new code to repos (in gitlab now) with custom plugin addon ability to app-select I have the code ready to add for IceWM from there as well. I can see how to do it for JWM, but not familiar with FluxBox, so need to figure that out, hopefully by the weekend. Busy at work, so this needs to be off hours.

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