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Skype works OK in my case.

Andrew: Today I had a desktop reset. Could it be this application?

alephito: You know I can never rule out anything with the desktop resets (pesky thing!). What else did you have running at the time? Had you been loading/unloading this application a lot? Doing an unusual amount of playing around with settings for Personal Launcher?

I ran valgrind on the launcher today to look for memory leaks. I fixed two minor ones in the current code, but I didn't see anything that should be a show stopper. Not that that means anything.

The only new application was this one (I am pretty sure all the other ones are stable enough, since they have never reseted the desktop --except Large Statusbar Clock, as you know --.

Minutes before the reset I was trying the new animation effect in all my icons, because I had found that clicking one in the middle of a row made the one on the right disappear (does it make any sense?). After the desktop reset the animation effect started to work again and no more resets.

I will continue testing.

i also tested v0.4 but it keeps on crashing the desktop. when i tried to remove it through the app manager my tablet froze and refused to boot for a couple of times. i finally got it to boot up after removing the battery for 10 minutes

back to v0.3 for me! so far it's the most stable build.

hey man, i reinstalled and haven't had the skype problem again.

However, the spacing thing - I've set the padding to maximum 15 and there's still not much room between icons - in version one, say I had six icons, they were spread evenly right across the width of the launcher bar, so stretching that right across the screen gave lots of room between them.

In latest version the padding set to full still doesn't do this - the icons group together and don't spread over the whole of the bar...

am i missing something here? cheers!

it is really a great app for os2008

but 1 problem is there! i see a (or 2 ) blink when i want to click on app !

can u fix it?

0.4 does have some issues with animations. This is my first attempt at animation, so there are probably some improvements I can make. I will look at this. I have also had alephito's dekstop crash when clicking all my icons with animations enabled. I will try to fix this.

flareup: I can make it so there is a higher limit to the padding option. Right now you can edit the file "~/.personal_launcher.rc" and change the padding to something higher. Let me know how high you need to go, and I will make that available through the GUI. The reason this has changed is because I was using a GtkTable to layout the elements before and now I am using GtkFixed. GtkFixed allows me to use much smarter auto layout mode.

Hi there, I tried the latest release of Personal Launcher 0.4.1 and I must say it is a great app. I would love using it all day long on my N810 running Diablo, but it keeps crashing the desktop (clock, rss feeds and omweather enabled) all the time So I had to uninstall it until it becomes stable one day or another. It's a pity.
But anyway, keep along the good work and thanks for sharing it with us !
PS: could be nice to have this app in Diablo extras once it reached the rc1 status for instance. Sorry about my english, I hope i made it readable and understandable.

http: Perfectly understandable. My goal is to make the software stable and put it in extras. I will post here whenever I make changes, so please keep trying new versions and letting me know if there is any improvement.

hi fiferboy
the icon do not go above 40 in side which makes the rest of the icons hidden is this normal with this version? i can only see four icons but they work well.
thanks