Nicu Buculei wrote:
Colin Walters wrote:
If you'd like to try out the Big Board mentioned in that entry, see
this wiki page:
http://developer.mugshot.org/wiki/Big_Board
Let us know what you think!
It have a few annoying things (which I believe you are aware already):
- on the wiki you recommend starting it by typing "bigboard" at a
command prompt, unfortunaely, bigboard will not launch in the
background (not even using "bigboard &") and if you close the
terminal, also the application is closed. A better way is to press
Alt+F2 to gett the Gnome "run" dialog and type "bigboard" there,
Excellent suggestion, I'd honestly forgotten about Alt-F2. I updated
the wiki.
but this leave you without a way to close the application.
- if I talked about application close, is there a way to close the app
without killing it? I didn't saw a "close" button.
Well I can see two kinds of "close":
- "I want all my screen space, but I like using bigboard." For this
case ideally the "small mode" is good enough, but
we might also have an option to minimize to a tray icon?
- "This app sucks, never show me again". At this experimental stage,
I think the recommendation will just be Alt-F2
then "xkill", click on bigboard. Longer term where the big board
is only part of all the changes to "online desktop mode",
I think we'll have a global control somewhere.
- another annoying thing is the window placement: bigboard is not the
single most important item on the desktop to have it in the top-left
corner of the screen, so it would be useful if it allowed me to drag
the panel to the right border of the screen.
Added this to the to-do on the wiki.
With those said, I noticed a minor problem (which again, I think you
are already aware): having bigboard open, I went to my mugshot
profile, noticed the addition to picassaweb to account settings and
configured it. Bigboard noticed this addition to my profile only after
a restart.
This used to work but was kind of hackish; it no longer does.
Definitely an important bug to fix because it basically affects everything.
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