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Tabespe

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Registered: 2019-12-04

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docklike; starter from /usr/ vs. starter from /home/

Hello

My system: Xfce 4.14.2 with docklike 0.4.0 .

Example with Galculator:
It looks like, when I open Galculator and pin it onto docklike, then it is the following starter that is responsible to start Galculator via docklike:

/usr/share/applications/galculator.desktop

All works as expected:
When I open Galculator via docklike, I get a dot beside the Galculator icon AND NOT a second icon.

But as soon as I create a second galculator.desktop file in my home:
~/.local/share/applications/galculator.desktop

... and replace the starter in docklike through the a starter pinned while I have started Galculator via this new "~/.local/share/applications/galculator.desktop", then I get two icons. My expectation was, that I still get a dot beside the Galculator icon and not a second icon.
(Of course as a workaround I could add the entry "StartupWMClass=..." . But this is not needed, when I use "/usr/share/applications/galculator.desktop".)

Questions:

A) Is this behaviour a feature or a bug? If it is a feature: What is the advantage of this behaviour?
B) Does DOCKLIKE control this behaviour? Or does XFCE dictate this behaviour?

Why I stumbled across it:

I tried to change the icon of the pinned Galculator starter in docklike with -> right click -> edit starter.
After having chosen another symbol for this starter in docklike, I got two icons when I tried to start Galculator via the starter with the new icon in docklike. Even two icons with different symbols. That's very unexpected.

Would appreciate some answer. Thank you.

Last edited by Tabespe (2022-08-27 08:18:13)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: docklike; starter from /usr/ vs. starter from /home/

Are you able to test the git (development version) of docklike plugin? I believe that issue was fixed but a new version of docklike plugin not yet released.

References:
- https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x … /issues/37
- https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x … requests/1
- https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x … e15f314ab7

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Tabespe

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Re: docklike; starter from /usr/ vs. starter from /home/

Thank you for this good news.
So I will wait until the new version of docklike is released.

However, when I have a look at ...
https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x … ree/master
... it looks for me as if it is not under strong development. Newest "last update" is 8 month. (src-folder).

Does this mean that there have been no more changes in the "development version" during the last 8 months? Or do I miss anything?

Last edited by Tabespe (2022-08-27 11:24:36)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: docklike; starter from /usr/ vs. starter from /home/

Does this mean that there have been no more changes in the "development version" during the last 8 months? Or do I miss anything?

Correct. Last commit was November 29, 2021.

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Tabespe

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Re: docklike; starter from /usr/ vs. starter from /home/

Thank you.