Desktop icons

[andersevenrud]

Add back the desktop iconview.

• Add configuration option
• Create GUI component
• Implement into Desktop
• Set up DnD
• VFS Integration
• Add configuration option to https://github.com/os-js/osjs-settings-application
• Figure out DnD bug in File Manager app (possibly GUI component)
• Shortcut support (including virtual paths)
• Root contextmenu
• Gost droppable (see Grid based desktop icon view #74)
• Add support for moving instead of copy from contextmenu
• Add back color invertion from v2 (where backgrounud color would set the mask of selected entry)
• Enable desktop iconview by default
• Add VFS watch event trigger (client only at this moment due to no default enable in server)
• Grid support

Ref:

• Desktop iconview shortcuts and general improvements #73
• Grid based desktop icon view #74

[andersevenrud]

@josephjeno This is now almost done. I'm probably getting it out this weekend :)

[josephjeno]

Ah it looks great!

[andersevenrud]

@josephjeno I've included this in the latest releases. I haven't enabled it by default still (from commit log):

Even though added, it's still disabled by default because there's no Settings application integration yet. Hence no minor bump.

Except for that, there's a few more things I need to implement:

• Directory metadata support (for shortcuts and links to virtual entries)
• CSS for IE
• Context menu entry that allows to "open using applicationX" (like in latest filemanager)
• More testing :D

And a bug I've found:

• Drag and drop does not work for certain entries in the filemanager app (seems to be input event related)

But, you can give it a go if you want. Just set the iconview enabled setting to true in your client configuration (NB: if you already have stored settings on your user you might need to clear it, or run OSjs.make('osjs/settings').set('osjs/desktop', 'iconview.enabled', true).save() in your console and refresh).

And if you do let me know if there's any trouble 😄

[andersevenrud]

Oh, and if you want to customize the directory, there's a setting for that as well: d933b8e#diff-9d9a6cd82f41984872a66a3ab0d440c4

[josephjeno]

@andersevenrud this is looking great, thanks very much! I know @valp124 used desktop icons in v2 avidly and will be looking forward to this.

[josephjeno]

Our two main use cases are:

1. shortcuts to applications on the desktop (currently using menu tray for this, desktop would be better as users could drag their own shortcuts)
2. saving/dragging files to the desktop (which would open in their respective app)

In the latest release I am able to drag both applications and files to the desktop, however nothing happens when I click them, with the exception of .txt files which do open in Textpad. I encountered the filemanager bug you mentioned, which seems to affect the top 3 entries until one of the navigation controls (back, forward, home) are pressed, at which point the top 6 entries are affected. Let me know if there is anything I can do on my end to assist, including testing, etc!