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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: tovarish on February 15, 2007, 05:31:17 am

Title: Tip For Rox Users.
Post by: tovarish on February 15, 2007, 05:31:17 am

Hi all

If you like using rox in pdaxrom like I do. It kinda reminds me of the palm os launcher which is the most ideal app launcher in a pda imo.
The problem is not many ipks have rox app shortcuts. They do however have .desktop shortcuts which is usually supported by most desktops.
There is a nice Rox app which converts a whole directory of desktop shortcuts or a single shortcut when you drag and drop the dir or the shortcut on the convertor icon. It is called Desktop2App and it is available here
http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/rox/desktop2app.html (http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/rox/desktop2app.html)
It however doesnt work with the standard python distribution in pdaxrom as it needs two files fnmatch.py© and blob.py©. You can get these two files anywhere or install the full python package. I downloaded the full python package and extacted just these two files to make it work.

tovarish

Title: Tip For Rox Users.
Post by: Jon_J on February 15, 2007, 01:55:33 pm

Using Rox, I just go to /usr/share/applications and just drag a desktop file to my desktop and rename it.
This seems to work with most all the .desktop files except the "mb-applet" ones.
Those are accessible from the taskbar anyway.
Some packages don't create a .desktop file, so I just modify another .desktop file and rename it to the executable's name.desktop.
When modifying a .desktop file for another app, I try to use one that is simple and generic.

Title: Tip For Rox Users.
Post by: kkazakov13 on February 15, 2007, 04:23:50 pm

ROX accepts *most* but not all of the .desktop files, that you place in /usr/share/applications and show them in the menus. There are certain that breaks it and it's not showing them