Editing PsionLX (section)

=== The desktop ===

[[File:PsionLX Today screen on a netBook Pro.jpg|thumb|300px|The TODAY screen of PsionLX on a netBook Pro (photograph: fss_88). The date is the machine's clock.]]
The desktop is <code>gpe-appmgr</code> in desktop mode (<code>-d</code>) and row view (<code>-r</code>), built from Psion's own branch of the program (CVS tag <code>GPE_APPMGR_56</code>).<ref name="oe-tree" /> The photographs of running machines show its layout:<ref name="pulster" /><ref name="fss88" />

* A strip of three amber tabs down the right-hand edge: TODAY, PROGRAMS and TASKS.
* TODAY shows the date and a summary: Wi-Fi card present or not, internet connection, e-mail inbox and outbox, appointments and the to-do list, with a "Show this screen at startup" checkbox.
* PROGRAMS shows the applications in four boxed groups, OFFICE, INTERNET, PIM and OTHER, each with its name written vertically down its left side.
* A large pale Psion blockletter watermark runs down the left of the screen.
* A 48-pixel bar along the bottom holds Psion's button bar (<code>gpe-buttonbox</code>, Psion's CVS tag 50) on the left, with Desk, Docs, Email, Web, Word, Sheet, Calendar, Contacts and Other, and the clock, volume, battery and card-ejector applets on the right.

Psion's panel layout file lists exactly that, with a tab character separating the left group from the right:<ref name="oe-tree" />

<pre>
gpe-buttonbox -p
	
gpe-clock
mb-applet-battery
minimix
psion-card-ejector
</pre>

The TASKS screen offered Psion's task scripts. Three recipes describe themselves that way: <code>iconnect</code> ("Internet connection script for tasks screen"), <code>backup</code> ("Backup script for tasks screen") and <code>mydocs</code> ("Task to specify location of My Documents"). The TASKS page itself was an HTML file, <code>gpe-appmgr/tasks.html</code>. It is lost, but Psion's <code>add-backup.patch</code> of 26 August 2004 edits it, and shows a table of tasks with icons in which "Back up your information" becomes a link to <code>launch:backup.sh</code>, beside an entry reading "Get help". The launcher recipe depends on Psion's HTML viewer, <code>gpe-helpviewer</code>.<ref name="oe-tree" />