Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

uninstalled zenity and imagemagick

but that weird left top black box is still there

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Looks like the problem D-livil is experience. The uninstall did not put back the background. If you reinstall the theme.. it should get back as normal.

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

that fixed it for me

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

D-livil: I am not sure i am doing something wrong.. but all my icons are from "hicolor" (i know cause i changed them). When i chose your pleego-theme it doesn't change to the icons in the pleego-icon folder. Maybe i have to install theme-pack 1?

A switch to gtkrc should be easy. I just want to test things out a little bit more before i release a new version.

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

As I stated earlier my themes doesn't include icons for apps atm. I'm just suggesting that your script should look into dir defined in gtkrc JUST IN CASE there might be some icons. I'm not talkint about Plastic theme alone, more like general matter and how themes define their custom iconset path :)

But now that you have Pleego installed; try dropping some icons under the pleego's icons folder and they will be automaticly used instead of hicolor ones.

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Ahh.. of course.. should have thought of that myself. When you said third party apps i thought it was supposed to have for the native ones. But as those folders are empty.. they get them from hicolor instead ;)

I need to download more themes. If there are any difference in the gtkrc. There might be some themes doing things different. But you are right that it is probably better to use the gtkrc.

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

I have now been testing a lot and the uninstall and recovery process should work. I tested a couple of themes and nothing strange happened. The only thing left is would be if an icon is located in a strange folder.. but that is something i can not test without your help.

It should be pretty stable now. If everything go well and i don't think of any more things.. i will remove it from beta state.

You can download the last version Beta14 from the first post.

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

When you resize the icons the menu looks ugly.
I've made some changes in matan's modified hildon-home.
I don't need to rezise the icons anymore
Let me try to rezise the icons backgrund and I'll send the changes to matan.
Then we can get a more easy settings plugin or something for this.

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Sounds great! I would have done a plugin.. if i knew how. The perfect would be to offer all the "theming settings" in the same entry. Including the "font changer" and if possible bookmarks and characters (but that is maybe another project). ;)

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

I would like to hear some feedback with Beta14. Did everything go well or do somebody still experience problems?

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Ok, I'm done with icons size in hildon-home
Can you test it?

- Extract hildon-home.launch1 file from tar.gz

- Put the file into /usr/bin folder

- Mount the file opening x-term and typing

sudo gainroot
mount -o bind /usr/bin/hildon-home.launch1 /usr/bin/hildon-home.launch
killall hildon-home

I prefer to mount instead of replace original hildon-home.launch cause if it crashes, then you can't never restart maemo (mounting the file the changes will dissapear on reboot).
It works fine for me, but who knows...

To change the icons size you need x-term:

gconftool -s /apps/osso/hildon-home/task-shortcuts-size -t int 62 (62 is the size you want for the icons)
killall hildon-home

Now go and modify your plugin :)
No more imagemagik, zenity or wget needed :)

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

I will test it but it looks pretty much the same as with Matans solution. Am little curious.. Could you explain how it works more precisely? As i understand, this will also change the icons not just the clickable area like before? How does it know where the icons and background are?

(Actually the only needed dependecy before was Imagemagick.. wget and zenity was just to make the install easy) ;)

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

That worked awesome CepiPerez! A ton easier and a lot faster than before.

Edit: But got one problem. I did a reboot.. the "clickable area" is as before but the icon changed back to the original size.

My original size was 62 pixels.. To test i made it 42 pixels.. then rebooted and when it started up the ckickable area was still 42 pixels but the icon was 62 pixels..

Would it be possible to make it "remember" the settings before the reboot?

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Works like a charm!

This could be easily adapted / merged to Plastic Theme Setup or I could make standalone GUI for this and then plugin @ phone's settings :)

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Maybe you could do an app for desktop customization? And incorporate this with the Font Changer?

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

That would be one option also. I could implement there to hide or show icon backgrounds, tune transitions (like snap to grid etc) and ofcourse size for home screen shortcuts. What else should it include?

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Hmm.. that is pretty much all. To my knowledge no one have solved how to resize character and bookmark widgets yet. Maybe Icon-packs too.. but that might be more difficult.

Like in my case.. i really like the feel and looks of Black Plastic Pleego but the favour the icons of Humanity-theme (the ubuntu feel).

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Implementing icon theme changer is not a big deal. Just need to figure out how can I filter out unwanted folders when I read what subfolders can be found under "/usr/share/icons" with Qt.

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Sounds terrific! What happens if you change the gtkrc's "pix_maps" string?

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Yes, it's the same solution as matan says
But the difference is that you don't need to resize any icon, the hildon-home does it for you.


EDIT:
IMPORTANT NOTE!!!
As I sayd before, you are mounting the real hildon-home.launch binary, NOT replacing it.
That's why you loss all changes on reboot.
If it works well, then REPLACE hildon-home.launcher with the one I gave you and forget to mount.

EDIT 2:
Working in bookmarks widgets.
Need to fix some things and I'll post an update. :)

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Sounds great! Please upload your modded hildon-home to repos after you have found it stable enough, that way others can make their packages to depend on it etc :)

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Great! I thought that all would be reset after the reboot.. maybe cause i have Matans as my default. It didn't reset to 62 pixels but kept the 42.. anyway this is really awesome!

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Btw, don't use killall hildon-home, it will cause many widgets to disappear and they must be re-added manually. Instead use this (run as user, not root):
dsmetool -k /usr/bin/hildon-home
dsmetool -t /usr/bin/hildon-home

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Ok guys
Try this version

commands:

gconftool -s /apps/osso/hildon-home/task-shortcuts-size -t int XX ---> XX = icon size

gconftool -s /apps/osso/hildon-home/task-shortcuts-back -t int X ---> X icon background (0=no, 1=yes)

gconftool -s /apps/osso/hildon-home/task-bookmarks-size -t int XX ---> bookmarks size (width size, the rest is autosized)

Have fun ;)


EDIT: If you decrease bookmarks size you will loss the bookmarks labels (think that's because it doesn't fit in space), sorry for this...

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Awesome!! will test it now...

Edit: Works awesome!

I can now have the bookmarks on the same page as my icons, cal-home-widget and still have room left for more. Just contacts that are missing now....

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Sorry, but contacts widgets aren't part of hildon-home

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Seems to be working fine also :)

Do have idea if it's possible to resize contact shortcuts also? I suppose it's not possible via hildon-desktop since they seem to be own binary (/usr/bin/osso-abook-home-applet).

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Is osso-abook-home-applet open-source?
I don't know where to find it

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

I "suppose" it's closed (for some weird reason) since I cannot find the source from repos or gitrous :/

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

This thread got awfully silent.. did you start up on this plugin D-livil? Are there any progress? Maybe we should start a new thread on this cause this "fix" is a lot better than the script i made.

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Hey AIMehdi, CepiPerez & D-livil,


I followed to:

extract hildon-home.launch1 from tar.gz
place hildon-home.launch1 (executable) in /usr/bin
// XX = icon size
// X = icon background (0-no, 1=yes)
// XX = bookmarks size (width, rest is automatic)


AND IT'S AWESOME! :D Thanks so much! Makes me love my n900 even more.

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http://meego.de/images/fbfiles/image...Resizer_1x.PNG

Hello. Can tell me how jemadn the apps that are hot with 1, 2, 3 and labeled? Thanks

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

home/user # desktop-shortcut -L
Executing the script!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
imagemagick
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6753kB of archives.
After this operation, 20.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 35918 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking imagemagick (from .../imagemagick_7%3a6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1~lenny3maemo1_armel.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick_7%3a6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1~lenny3maemo1_armel.deb (--unpack):
failed in buffer_write(fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.3.7/modules-Q16/coders/ps3.so': No space left on device
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick_7%3a6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1~lenny3maemo1_armel.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
--05:06:21-- http://my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/n90...+0m5_armel.deb
=> `hildon-home_0.3.66-2+0m5_armel.deb'
Resolving my.arava.co.il... 80.74.115.3
Connecting to my.arava.co.il|80.74.115.3|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 78,976 (77K) [application/octet]

100%[================================================== ====>] 78,976 4.56K/s ETA 00:00

05:06:40 (4.56 KB/s) - `hildon-home_0.3.66-2+0m5_armel.deb' saved [78976/78976]

(Reading database ... 35918 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace hildon-home 0.3.66-2+0m5 (using hildon-home_0.3.66-2+0m5_armel.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement hildon-home ...
Setting up hildon-home (0.3.66-2+0m5) ...
...
Dowload and installation successful.
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 241: mogrify: not found
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 241: mogrify: not found
...
Searching your n900 for icons. (wait, this could take a while)
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 284: mogrify: not found
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 284: mogrify: not found
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 284: mogrify: not found
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 284: mogrify: not found
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 284: mogrify: not found
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 284: mogrify: not found
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 284: mogrify: not found
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 284: mogrify: not found
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 284: mogrify: not found
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 284: mogrify: not found
/usr/sbin/desktop-shortcut: line 284: mogrify: not found
...
All changes has been executed. The script has finished.
/home/user #

Is this how it is supposed to be ? my icons seem eaten up. and every time i try setting up the size it says'imagemagick' not found and then asks me to download it..
Help would be greatly appriciated.

Edit: Got it working :) thanks to CepiPere ! How do i uninstall the aboce packages ?

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

I've drawn the GUI and it's already working. I just want to wait for CepiPerez to package his modified hildon-home and upload to repos so I can just make my GUI depend on it (that way it will automatically install the modded hildon-home).

At the moment my GUI can resize the shortcuts, disable or enable backgrounds for those, enable or disable bundled custom transitions, change snap-to-grid-value, change font family and sizes.

Thing that still needs tweaking is selecting any icon theme user has installed to use with currently active theme. I need to figure out how I can filter out unwanted directories when I read with QT what subfolders are available in /usr/share/icons.

I'm also working with color selector which would let user change font colors, but that's very alpha stage and I need to read more QT docs on how to parse stuff from css -file and place results in qstring.

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

I did 2 and 3 in QBW and 1 is just the application symfonie.

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Imagemagick did not get installed properly.. looks like you have very little space left on you device.. and CepiPeres way is way better.. to uninstall you could..

1. sudo gainroot
2. dpkg -P imagemagick

3. apt-get remove zenity

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Thanks AlMehdi, the cepiPeres worked like a charm until i rebooted my device. the icons go back to the size as they were after i used your script. but then they resize to my desired size after i entered 'mount -o bind /usr/bin/hildon-home.launch1 /usr/bin/hildon-home.launch' as root.. is there anyway possible to avoid using this command after every reboot? like the icons size being the same..
Thanks in advance:)

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Btw, is someone else suffering this issue with CepiPerez's hildon-home; changing background via "desktop editing mode - change background" isn't working anymore.

Just want to narrow down if it's because of the modded hildon-home or something else...

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

Sorry I forgot to send the modified code to matan to update the package. I will send it to him at monday cause I let it in my work.

@D-Iivil
The change background is a bug in matan's modified-hildon-desktop
I can help you with Qt if you want

Re: [Announce] Desktop Shortcut Resizer - It will resize your program icons on the desktop
 

This is the N900 customisation I desire above all others. Would even pay for this option.