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roberts:
Tiny Core v3.0 Alpha9 is now posted at http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release_candidates

Change log for Alpha 9:

* Updated busybox 1.17.0git New applets: flock, modinfo, rev, unxz, xz, xzcat. Tar etc support xz now.
* Updated desktop.sh, startx, tc-config to support generic icon manager via new interface files.
* Updated wbar with new interface files for new generic icon support.
* Updated getRGB for wallpaper recall current solid color background.
* Updated .xsession .X.d to allow spaces in filenames.
* Updated linstdc++ to 6.13 now aligns with toolchain extension.
* Updated rebuildfstab to support raid devices.
* Updated some incorrect device types and numbers.

Note:

.xsession likely in your backup update from /etc/skel.
wbar should be removed from .X.d/ as there is now a generic call to ICON manager in .xsession

bigpcman:

--- Quote from: roberts on July 04, 2010, 10:40:58 AM ---Tiny Core v3.0 Alpha9 is now posted at http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release_candidates

Change log for Alpha 9:


* Updated desktop.sh, startx, tc-config to support generic icon manager via new interface files.
* Updated wbar with new interface files for new generic icon support.



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Great progress on tc ! Adding generic icon support is a good idea.

How does the generic icon manager interface work? Could you provide a simple example?

roberts:
It uses interface files similar to the desktop window managers support.

See:
usr/bin/wbar
usr/bin/wbar.sh
usr/bin/wbar_setup.sh
usr/bin/wbar_update.sh

The next icon manager extension will likely be tablaunch using such interface files as

usr/local/bin/tablaunch
usr/local/bin/tablaunch.sh
usr/local/bin/tablaunch_setup.sh
usr/local/bin/tablaunch_update.sh

Xianwen Chen:
Good job! wbar is the only file in .X.d in my home folder. Does this imply that I can remove .X.d too?

roberts:
You may. But since .X.d/ is still in /etc/skel it will  reappear.
If you exit to shell, then rm -rf .X.d/ then startx to see that in theory it can be removed.
It is a convenience to leave in /etc/skel.

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