iconmover

Came across iconmover. Tried it out on my Raspberry Pi on Risc OS. Works OK but the positions of the icons on the bar are not saved on a reboot. Is there any way for RISCOS to remember the icon bar positions.

many thanks

Is there any way for RISCOS to remember the icon bar positions.

No.

Is there a way for IconMover to remember them? Well, yes, but it would become a different thing. IconMover is relative – move icon A to the left of icon B. Whereas you’d want to be able to run program A first, then program B later, yet have B appear to the right of A.

IconMover would therefore have to maintain absolute priorities for all of your programs, and far apart enough to allow other icons to be moved between them… and it isn’t clear where other programs would fit relative to the ones it’s seen before.

So it’s possible, but it’s a lot more work.

So it’s possible, but it’s a lot more work.

Or just accept that icons move? Like oh Windows when you dismount a flash device, the little green “Safely remove…” icon leaps to the left of the systray.

If things are not large and desired to be in a certain order, why not load them in that order at boot time?

I would like to replace the SDFS icons on the Pandora. SDFS:0 is the Pandoras left slot, SDFS:1 the right one but the right icon on the iconbar is SDFS:0 and the left SDFS:1. Too bad there is no way to do that automatically with iconmover.

I agree. I’m not to worried a bout the right side of the icon bar but the left side seems to place the icons in almost random order. It would be useful to have the main drive (SDFS) completely over to the left, then other attached drives in order, then followed by network servers i.e.. samba, sunfish etc. And being able to place a bin application at the end of this lot would make finding it a bit more convenient instead of having to search along a long line of icons for it. Being able to place icons where you want them (like the mac’s dock) just makes it easier to locate them and more logical to use.

Adding other programs to the icon bar is not so important after boot up as they are only temporally on the bar. Its the drives and the programs I run on boot that I would like to reorder.

the programs I run on boot that I would like to reorder.

In general app icons are placed on the right side of the iconbar from right to left in the order the apps are run. Therefore making sure the apps are run in the correct order at boot will put them in the order you want. There are not many apps that try to put their iconbar icon somewhere specific. Organizer is one, MoreDesk is another. Even then some apps allow you to configure the iconbar icon position to some extent (eg MoreDesk).

Too bad there is no way to do that automatically with iconmover.

1. It’s quite hard to do, as they’re both created by the same program, so now IconMover has to not only recognise every program, but also uniquely and unambiguously recognise every icon of every program.

2. Or you could just fix SDFS.

2. Or you could just fix SDFS.

It would be nice if I could. Unfortunately I’m too stupid.

I say SDFS, I mean SDFSFiler, wherever that is.

SDFS:0 is the Pandoras left slot, SDFS:1 the right one but the right icon on the iconbar is SDFS:0 and the left SDFS:1

Or you could just fix SDFSFiler

I’m not seeing what’s to fix? Drives have always appeared with the highest drive number to the left and lowest to the right (taking CDFS and ADFS as examples).

I’m not seeing what’s to fix? Drives have always appeared with the highest drive number to the left and lowest to the right (taking CDFS and ADFS as examples).

I know that. The Pandora is a special case. Two drives and it would be nice if the left icon would also be the left drive. You could also change the assignment of numbers.

I’m not seeing what’s to fix? Drives have always appeared with the highest drive number to the left and lowest to the right (taking CDFS and ADFS as examples).

What the problem with my Harddiscs in 5.21 (02.06.2013)?
HD4 is !Boot; HD5 Data…

The fixed drives are showing the names but are sorted on the drive numbers. You can test the theory by doing ‘filer_opendir scsi::4 and scsi::5’ to confirm which is which. Then just rename so they appear in the correct order.

Sorry, to many things to do. I know the theory and it is so in 5.17-5.19. I’m sure I have not given drive names and so drive numbers and names ar given from RISC OS.

My root is a little bit unsorted.