On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 02:13 +0200, Johannes H. Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm writing a Unity Lens for Tomboy Notes. Reading through the docs, I > find that each item in the results model needs a "uri" which is to be > opened when the item is activated by the user. However, tomboy notes > only have an internal URI, one which is not recognized by GNOME or > Unity. > > A a note can be opened with a simple D-Bus call to Tomboy, but how can > the activation of an item in the results model be used to trigger such > a call? As far as I can see, there exists no signal for this > purpose...
Hi Johannes, This sounds awesome :-) For these cases Unity has an "Activation" API that can trigger callbacks back to the daemon when the user clicks a result. It's described here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Lenses#Activation%20Hooks. The Apps place use it to open the Software Center on the correct app when you click one in the Apps Available for Download group. Check out lp:unity-place-applications to see a working example of this. The usual way of doing this is to construct some private URI scheme like unity-tomboy://$internal_tomboy_uri and register activation for that with an entry like the following in your .place file: [Activation] URIPattern=unity-tomboy://.+ You must hen implement the Unity.Activation interface from libunity and register it to your Unity.PlaceController. The registration is easy as the activation backend is just a property on the controller. So it's just ctrl.activation = my_activation_instance. Honestly, I am not exactly sure how to implement Unity.Activation from Python, but from Vala or C it should be straight forward. Cheers, Mikkel _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
