DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Partition/drive icons on desktop.

JP,

Thanks for the explanation. That's good to know. I wish there was a different answer, mainly so I could recommend a DSL CD to people as readily as a Knoppix CD. But I still love DSL and will continue to use it.

Milo

p.s.
May the light illumine you.

I guess it would depend on what people consider important in an operating system. Personally I don't see icons as being important at all, or very useful, and i definitely don't base my recommendations on whether or not icons are created dynamically according to your hardware =O)
For a liveCD, I'd find it hard to recommend something that requires as much ram as many distros do (for example, the Suse liveDVD recommends a minimum of 384mb...bleh).

For creating mount icons, Xtdesk has a separation of "program" and "mount" icons. I'm not exactly sure what the difference is, but here is an example that you can compare to the "program" icons that are included with DSL:

Code Sample

table Icon
Type: Mount
Caption: /dev/cdrom
Command: mount
IconMount: /home/dsl/.xtdesktop/cdrom_mount.gif
IconUmount: /home/dsl/.xtdesktop/cdrom_umount.gif
X:
Y:
MenuCommand1: Mount CDROM : mount /dev/cdrom
MenuCommand2: Umount CDROM : umount /dev/cdrom
MenuCommand3: Eject CDROM : eject /dev/cdrom

end

Heck I don't even use icons. Not even in Windows. I use BBlean instead of exploder, and an alrernate filemanager.

In Ubuntu, I use XFCE or enlightenment.

Icons are ugly, and get in the way of my wallpaper anyway.

I know people that swear by using icons, but I myself dont like to use them either. One of the first things I do when I do a new install is goto 'no icons'. I much prefer to use the menu's because it looks much cleaner without icons and I believe it saves me some ram on my old system too.

noicons does save RAM.

xtdesk typically uses about 1MB of RAM for me.

Each dockapp also uses a similar amount of RAM.

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