A new systray patch

[Shachar Shemesh]

Mike Hearn wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 20:16 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
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>>I'd love to get my digital camera syncing on Linux (Mustek). It uses a
>>shell extension. Good enough reason for you? :-)
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>Is a shell extension really the only way you can access the camera?
>That's pretty poor UI design if so (imho :).
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I no choice but to agree. It came in cheap, and I don't heavily rely on 
it. Otherwise I wouldn't have gone for anything short of a camera that 
acts as a USB storage device.

>What desktop do you use, if any?
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KDE.

> Maybe we can add bridging shell
>extensions to the list of fun tasks.
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Hmm. Like I said in an earlier email, a shell extension (including a 
complete hand-coded OLE server) was my first Windows program ever. Since 
then (1996), however, I have done a lot of other stuff, and have 
blissfully wiped out most of the knowledge in that area. If I win the 
lottery (or enough people decide that I'm worthy of an award....), I 
/may/ pick something like that up. Until then, however, don't count on 
me. Just today I noticed that an edit control partial update 
optimization totally breaks BiDi display, so it's unlikely that my 
mainstream work will abate any time soon.

As for the camera, USB support has to work before we can do anything 
with that. It will probably be simpler to get kamera to support the MDC 
3000.

If you reached this page through a search on the camera's support in 
Linux - just veer away from it. No optical zoom, all pictures taken 
relying mostly on the built-in flash overexpose. No reason to buy it 
unless you got it as a gift.

>thanks -mike
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       Shachar

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