[Gambas-user] Speaking of using common linux tools

[BB]

I think perhaps that I was overthinking again and looking for a 
Lamborghini when a Morris 850 would have done.

However, the original (unexplained) question remains. Is there a 
reasonably "common" desktop scripter/requestor/pasta/anything that 
people use?

b

On 11/12/22 9:53 pm, Bruce Steers wrote:
> Also gb.desktop DesktopFile has the NoDisplay property if you want to 
> do it with gambas.
> http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.desktop/desktopfile 
> <http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.desktop/desktopfile>
>
> Dim df As New DesktopFile(sPath)
> df.NoDisplay = True
> df.Save()
>
>
> BruceS
>
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022, 11:10 Fabien Bodard, <gambas.fr at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gambas.fr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     so what do really want to achieve ... I don't understand.
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     I add to this mail a class that is able to read the
>     .desktop files(but not write).
>
>     Le dim. 11 déc. 2022 à 11:17, Bruce Steers <bsteers4 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bsteers4 at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
>         zenity is easy , Zenity Manual
>         <https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/stable/index.html.en>
>         I wouldn't call it a scripter though, it's just a requester
>         GUI tiool
>
>         On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 at 07:25, BB <adamnt42 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:adamnt42 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Has anyone got an idea of using "common" linux screen
>             "scripters" like
>             zenity etc.
>
>             I have always shied away from these as they look sooo
>             distro dependant.
>             However suddenly an obtuse use case has arisen (where I
>             want to
>             temporarily de-activate but not delete a .desktop icon).
>
>             tia
>
>             bruce
>
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