On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Thanks, Mikkel, that's exactly what I was looking for :-) Regards, Johannes _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
