Thread: Odds and ends
View Single Post
auouymous is offline auouymous
2011-11-21 , 01:03
Posts: 875 | Thanked: 918 times | Joined on Sep 2010
#220
Originally Posted by Addison View Post
One thing that I would love to try and learn is how to hack something like flipcalendar. It supports a transparent background.
Isn't that a home applet? AFAIK, applets draw to the root window, they aren't transparent windows floating above it.

Originally Posted by Addison View Post
With a few tweaks, instead of displaying the date, month and year, I could have it display the current song being played in Xmms right on the desktop.
Just download the source code to a sample home applet from the maemo4 reference manual and add in some code to query xmmsctrl. Would be far easier than hacking it into an app that does something else.
 

The Following User Says Thank You to auouymous For This Useful Post: