Idesk README

Idesk was written by Chris Roberts, and his webpage is
http://dramamine.darktech.org/~nikon which might be down for a while.
Email: nikon@sc.rr.com, ICQ: 63345004

You can find the current updated Idesk webpage at:
http://linuxhelp.hn.org/idesk.php, maintained by Ivan (ivan@xpenguin.com).

Idesk is released under the BSD license, which means don't call my code yours,
and if you use any of my code, give me credit.

Install instructions:
make
su
cp idesk /usr/local/bin/idesk

To use Idesk, you must first setup your config file. Put something like this
into into .ideskrc in your home directory:

table Config
  FontName: tahoma
  FontSize: 8
  FontColor: #ffffff
  PaddingX: 35
  PaddingY: 25
  Locked: false
  HighContrast: false
  Transparency: 150
  Shadow: true
  ShadowColor: #000000
  ShadowX: 1
  ShadowY: 2
  Bold: false
end

"Locked" is boolean (true/false). "Transparency" is between 0 (no glow effect)
and 255 (invisible without a mouseover).

"HighContrast" will draw a border around the text in the opposite colour if
it is true.  It will draw it in an arbitary colour if it "#aa00aa", for
example.  And it will not draw anything at all if it is set to "false".

"Shadow" is boolean (true/false). Turning this on will draw a drop shadow 
of color ShadowColor behind the text. The shadow will be ShadowX pixels right
and ShadowY pixels down (negative values will work). Both ShadowX and ShadowY
default to 1.

"Bold" is a boolean (true/false). Setting it to true will make your font bold.

To add an icon, you need to first create a .idesktop directory in your home dir
and inside that directory, create a file, for example, home.lnk and inside the
file put something like this:

table Icon
  Caption: Home
  Command: nautilus /home/you
  Icon: /home/you/.idesktop/home.png
end

The options should be self-explantory. The double click action on any icon
executes the command you assigned it.

You can double-middle click on any icon to reload the icon files in the
.idestop directory and the .ideskrc settings.

After you move your icons around to get them where you want them, you can
change "Locked" from false to true in the config file.
