blu256/skout

Skout is a BeOS-style panel for the Trinity Desktop Environment

Skout

Skout is a panel for TDE in the spirit of Deskbar, the desktop panel of BeOS and now Haiku.

It is currently in development, so not all features might be implemented.

Features:

• Desktop menu
• System tray
• Grouping taskbar with pinnable applications and window operations
• Integration with ksystraycmd to place any application windows in system tray
• 2 positions on desktop (top left and top right)
• TDE Control Centre module

skout's Issues

need help for another project...

This is not an issue, but I didn't know how to contact you, so sorry by advance for the inconvenience.
Don't want to bother you, but maybe the little project I'm working on can interest you, and/or maybe you can help me ...
I saw you're a Trinity contributor, so maybe you've got the knowledge to help me a bit :)
I'm a Trinity DE user (on Q4OS but doesn't matter) and I started some months ago a "theming project" to have a look similar to Windows10. I think it's "relevant" as Trinity can be themed to look like windows 2000,XP etc.. And I think it's good to help win users to switch to linux.
Most of the parts are ready now (icons, cursors, styling etc...) , but I need two new kicker applets to complete the project. So I tried to code them, but as I had never work with any graphic toolkit, it's a bit difficult for me.
The two applets are here:

https://github.com/seb3773/showdeskten-kicker-applet
this one is a simple "showdesktop" button, to be placed at the extreme right of the kicker, to mimic the similar functionnality found in win10.

https://github.com/seb3773/actioncenter-kicker-applet
This other one is designed to mimic the notification center panel of windows 10, with configurables actions, to be placed at the extreme right of the kicker, just before showdeskten applet.

It's nearly ok, (well, it works), but I need some help for some details:
-I don't know how to create buttons without frames, so it doesn't look very pretty with different kicker colors and/or transparency.
-Some other graphics details, for example having a panel who follow the titlebar color, updating of the buttons whithout closing/re opening panel etc...

I really don't know if it could interest you, or if you have the time for it, but if you can help me I will be very happy ;)