<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 11 Dec 2022, 11:37 BB, <<a href="mailto:adamnt42@gmail.com">adamnt42@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I think perhaps that I was overthinking again and looking for a
Lamborghini when a Morris 850 would have done.</p>
<p> However, the original (unexplained) question remains. Is there a
reasonably "common" desktop scripter/requestor/pasta/anything that
people use?</p>
<p>b<br>
</p><p></p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">xdg utils I think makes desktop files.</div><div dir="auto">Check out the xdg commands and their --help</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Respects</div><div dir="auto">BruceS</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><p><br></p>
<div>On 11/12/22 9:53 pm, Bruce Steers
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<div dir="auto">Also gb.desktop DesktopFile has the NoDisplay
property if you want to do it with gambas.
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<div dir="auto">Dim df As New DesktopFile(sPath)</div>
<div dir="auto">df.NoDisplay = True</div>
<div dir="auto">df.Save()</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 11 Dec 2022, 11:10
Fabien Bodard, <<a href="mailto:gambas.fr@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">gambas.fr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">so what do really want to achieve ... I don't
understand.
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<div>If I want to hide an icon it is what I use ... because
it's the common linux distrib way based on the freedesktop
specifications.</div>
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<div>By the way I know zenity and I was using it before we
have been able to access to dbus directly and before dbus
was so commonly used.</div>
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<div>I add to this mail a class that is able to read the
.desktop files(but not write).</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le dim. 11 déc. 2022
à  11:17, Bruce Steers <<a href="mailto:bsteers4@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">bsteers4@gmail.com</a>>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">zenity
is easy , <a href="https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/stable/index.html.en" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Zenity Manual</a></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I
wouldn't call it a scripter though, it's just a
requester GUI tiool<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 at
07:25, BB <<a href="mailto:adamnt42@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">adamnt42@gmail.com</a>>
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idea of using "common" linux screen "scripters" like <br>
zenity etc.<br>
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I have always shied away from these as they look sooo
distro dependant. <br>
However suddenly an obtuse use case has arisen (where
I want to <br>
temporarily de-activate but not delete a .desktop
icon).<br>
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tia<br>
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bruce<br>
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