Installing the Big Board part of online desktop

[Colin Walters]

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
>>
>> If you'd like to try out the Big Board mentioned in that entry, see 
>> this wiki page:
>>
>> http://developer.mugshot.org/wiki/Big_Board
>>
>> Let us know what you think!
>
> It have a few annoying things (which I believe you are aware already):
> - on the wiki you recommend starting it by typing "bigboard" at a 
> command prompt, unfortunaely, bigboard will not launch in the 
> background (not even using "bigboard &") and if you close the 
> terminal, also the application is closed. A better way is to press 
> Alt+F2 to gett the Gnome "run" dialog and type "bigboard" there, 

Excellent suggestion, I'd honestly forgotten about Alt-F2.  I updated 
the wiki.

> but this leave you without a way to close the application.
> - if I talked about application close, is there a way to close the app 
> without killing it? I didn't saw a "close" button.

Well I can see two kinds of "close":
  - "I want all my screen space, but I like using bigboard."  For this 
case ideally the "small mode" is good enough, but
    we might also have an option to minimize to a tray icon?
  - "This app sucks, never show me again".  At this experimental stage, 
I think the recommendation will just be Alt-F2
     then "xkill", click on bigboard.  Longer term where the big board 
is only part of all the changes to "online desktop mode",
     I think we'll have a global control somewhere.

> - another annoying thing is the window placement: bigboard is not the 
> single most important item on the desktop to have it in the top-left 
> corner of the screen, so it would be useful if it allowed me to drag 
> the panel to the right border of the screen.

Added this to the to-do on the wiki.

> With those said, I noticed a minor problem (which again, I think you 
> are already aware): having bigboard open, I went to my mugshot 
> profile, noticed the addition to picassaweb to account settings and 
> configured it. Bigboard noticed this addition to my profile only after 
> a restart.
>
This used to work but was kind of hackish; it no longer does.  
Definitely an important bug to fix because it basically affects everything.