Support for Clover or TabExplorer

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Rigel
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Support for Clover or TabExplorer

Postby Rigel » 04.11.2012 02:14:57

Can you add support for Clover or TabExplorer? Or can you add the ability to use tab for explorer windows?
Now they don't recognize multiple desktop so all the windows of all dekstop are tabbed together, only tab without the real windows
Thanks

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Patrick
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Re: Support for Clover or TabExplorer

Postby Patrick » 07.11.2012 23:08:15

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Rigel wrote:Can you add support for Clover or TabExplorer?

How are we supposed to do that exactly?

Or can you add the ability to use tab for explorer windows?

No, because it has nothing to do with virtual desktops.

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Re: Support for Clover or TabExplorer

Postby Rigel » 08.11.2012 13:32:14

Patrick wrote:How are we supposed to do that exactly?


I wrote to Clover and TabExplorer developers and only the first said that he would check on.
Clover support Dexpot at 99%, you have to a very simple thing:

Rule:
if (not exist Clover.exe on actual desktop) and
(new Windows of Class CabinetWClass and it is hidden)
then (start clover.exe)

Very Simple, Clover made the rest.

When with Clover opened in an other desktop, you start a new window explorer this is hidden and if you open an instance if clover in the actual desktop it grab this window.

The actual rule system don't allow this possibility.

Thanks

p.s. There are other way but this is so simple

Or can you add the ability to use tab for explorer windows?

No, because it has nothing to do with virtual desktops.


I think that tabs explorers is a Virtual System but Dexpot is yours so it's your choice.

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Re: Support for Clover or TabExplorer

Postby Patrick » 09.11.2012 15:01:06

Rigel wrote:Rule:
if (not exist Clover.exe on actual desktop) and
(new Windows of Class CabinetWClass and it is hidden)
then (start clover.exe)

Couldn't Clover do that itself? I don't see why Dexpot has to get involved.

By the way, QTTabBar seems to work fine with Dexpot.

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Re: Support for Clover or TabExplorer

Postby Rigel » 09.11.2012 16:55:51

Patrick wrote:
Rigel wrote:Rule:
if (not exist Clover.exe on actual desktop) and
(new Windows of Class CabinetWClass and it is hidden)
then (start clover.exe)

Couldn't Clover do that itself? I don't see why Dexpot has to get involved.


Because, Clover works with normal desktop and Dexpot is the virtual desktop in which normal desktop programs would be run. However, I suggest you to add a condition to your system rule as well as I said to clover developer to add a daemon system but I think that condition like "not exist in actual desktop..." is more useful also for other software in future.

Now the rule system can do at most something like of this:
Condition: if the class of window is CabinetWClass
Actions: (move on desktop 1) and (start Clover.exe)
This rule can solve approximatively the problem but is an infinite loop and I had to restart my pc to solve this issue.

So there are different type of rule:
1: Condition: (if the class of window is CabinetWClass)
Actions: (start Clover.exe)
Execution:(one time)
2: Condition: (if executable = explorer.exe %1) and (%1 <> "")
Actions: (Close explorer.exe %1) and (start Clover.exe %1)
But I prefer
3: Condition: (if the class of window is CabinetWClass) and (the executable "not exit" clover.exe)
Actions: (start Clover.exe)
Simple, you have to add only a little rule, at most two line of code.

Clover developer has to add many line of code to transform the app in a daemon.

But this is only a your choice, I don't insist anymore, if no one of you does something in the next days I made myself a little script and this remain a problem of non-programmer people as ever.

By the way, QTTabBar seems to work fine with Dexpot.

Also Firefox move to external tabs and I don't like to turn back with old design by QTTabBar.

Regarding TabExplorer, it is a dead end, it works identically to Dexpot so it's impossible to support it, and for this reason that in first moment I think it was possible to virtualize tabs inside Dexpot, no more other words on this.

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Re: Support for Clover or TabExplorer

Postby Rigel » 10.11.2012 15:30:36

Seems Cloner developer is a very fast programmer, He say that next week Clover version solve the problem.
I retain this discussion closed.


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