Exporting Droplets and Inspectors to an xfce Panel with Phatch-0.1.bzr294

Summary:

Here's my How-To Instructions on adding a Phatch Droplet or Phatch Inspector to your xfce Panel.

DEPRECATED: Exporting Droplets and Inspectors to an xfce Panel with Phatch-0.1.bzr294

elliio 30 Jan 2008 08:19

DEPRECATED:

Please see the post further down the page referencing version: Phatch-0.1.bzr316-1

01. Create or Load an Action List.
02. File > Export > As Droplet/Inspector.
03. Choose Folder to Save Droplet/Inspector in.
04. Name the Droplet/Inspector.
05. Select the Open button or press Enter.
06. You will find the Droplet/Inspector Folder where you created it.
07. Inside you will find the Named Droplet/Inspector *.desktop file.
08. Right Click on Named Droplet/Inspector.desktop file, and Select "Properties".
09. Navigate to the Launcher Tab.
10. Select then Copy the Command.
(Mine looked like this: phatch -d '/home/elliio/.phatch/Tango-blue-Canvas-png.py' %U)
11. I found out after some playing around that, with the xfce launcher in the xfce panel that it WILL WORK with out the "%U", for DROPLETS. INSPECTORS WILL WORK _with_ the "%U"
12. Right Click on the xfce Panel and Select "Add New Item.
13. Select "Launcher" from the "Add Items to the Panel" Dialog bos.
14. Click the "Add" Button.
15. A "Program Launcher" Dialog Box opens.
16. In the "Command" field, Paste the Command from the Droplet.desktop Properties dialog.
17. Select an Icon.
18. Name the Launcher in the "Name" Field.
19. Enter a meaningful description for the Droplet in the "Description" Field.
20. Click the "Close" Button.
21. You will now find your new, functional, drag-and-drop-enabled Phatch Droplet/Inspector sitting in the panel.
22. To use, just drag the icon of an image file onto a Droplet to process it, or an Inspector to review its properties.

Many thanks to stani for getting this feature up and running for me!

Due to the way Xfce works, I don't think it is currently possible to just Drag-and-Drop a Droplet.desktop or Inspector.desktop file directly onto the Panel without going through the Add Items To Panel > Launcher Dialogs.

If you are a more advanced Xfce user, please chime in! :-)

Last edited on 03 Feb 2008 20:14 by elliio Show more

Re: Exporting Droplets and Inspectors to an xfce Panel with Phatch-0.1.bzr294

stani 30 Jan 2008 16:37

Hi, thanks for this report. I was surprised that there was such a difference between xcfe and gnome. I have tried to polish Phatch as my as I can now for xfce. So here are my remarks:

04. Name the Droplet/Inspector.

What do you mean by this? Phatch only lets you select a folder. You can't give a name.

11. I found out after some playing around that, with the xfce launcher in the xfce panel that it WILL WORK with out the "%U", for DROPLETS. INSPECTORS WILL WORK _with_ the "%U"

This has been fixed now. You don't have to remove "%U" anymore.

Moreover I implemented a new feature to export the droplet command immediately to the clipboard:

File>Export>As droplet &command to the clipboard

So step 2 to 11 becomes now only ONE step. All the rest is XFCE stuff.

Warning: XFCE does not accept filenames with spaces.

Re: Exporting Droplets and Inspectors to an Xfce Panel with Phatch-0.1.bzr294

elliio 30 Jan 2008 17:44

What was meant by step 04. _was_ naming the folder…. grr… I named the folder the same as the name of my action list. Sorry for the confusion.

I'll go through the process again with the latest Phatch release, and see if there's any differences to report.

Last edited on 03 Feb 2008 20:02 by elliio Show more

Re: Exporting Droplets and Inspectors to an Xfce Panel with Phatch-0.1.bzr294

elliio 30 Jan 2008 18:00

I've tested Phatch-0.1.bzr297 on xfce/xubuntu-gutsy-amd64-dualcore.

I can report that stani is correct about the simplification of the process of adding a Phatch Droplet to an Xfce Panel. He's made it very simple to add the droplet command to the Xfce Launcher dialog. I even get a nice on-screen attention panel stating the command was in the clipboard buffer ready to be pasted as the command in a new Launcher. Very nice!

Last edited on 03 Feb 2008 20:02 by elliio Show more

CURRENT: Exporting Droplets and Inspectors to an Xfce Panel with Phatch-0.1.bzr316-1

elliio 30 Jan 2008 18:15

Current:

Here is the updated Step-By-Step How-To for Phatch-0.1.bzr316-1:

01. Create or Load an Action List. (These are the files named YourActionListNameHere.phatch)

02. (File > Create Droplet From… > Copy as Action List Command to Clipboard…) (For a single-purpose Droplet).

Alternatively you could choose: (File > Create Droplet From… > Copy Recent as Command to Clipboard…) (For a multi-purpose Droplet).

03. Right Click on the Xfce Panel and Select "Add New Item".

04. Select "Launcher" from the "Add Items to the Panel" Dialog.

05. Click the "Add" Button.

06. A "Program Launcher" Dialog Box opens.

07. In the "Command" field, Paste the Command from the clipboard.

08. Select an Icon.

09. Name the Launcher in the "Name" Field. (Such as "Phatch Droplet")

10. Enter a meaningful description for the Droplet in the "Description" Field. (Such as the title of the Action List, helpful if you plan on adding multiple Droplets to a Panel.)

11. Click the "Close" Button.

12. You will now find your new, functional, drag-and-drop-enabled Phatch Droplet/Inspector sitting in the Panel.

13. To use, just drag the icon of an image file onto a Droplet to process it, or an Inspector to review its properties.

Last edited on 03 Feb 2008 23:03 by elliio Show more

Re: Exporting Droplets and Inspectors to an xfce Panel with Phatch-0.1.bzr297

stani 30 Jan 2008 19:23

Please update this to the latest version:

02. File > Export > As droplet command to the clipboard.

Re: Exporting Droplets and Inspectors to an xfce Panel with Phatch-0.1.bzr297

itsanudae 14 Apr 2008 02:12

This will be updated Post-Hardy Release.