On 03/04/2008, Nathan Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > Before I say anything else, I'd like to compliment your application, which > seems to be a well-planned and slickly-developed app. > > I am not a novice to linux but in the desktop world I have a lot to > learn. I am giving open suse a shot and decided to use KDE based on a > couple recommendations. > > An application launcher has become one of my must-haves, and I tried and > rejected katapult and beagle in short order. katapult is pretty but has > little functionality, and beagle has lots of great functionality but not > quite the right feel. I have spent a couple hours figuring out what gnome > libraries your application requires and getting them installed, but I still > can't seem to get it actually working. > > At this point my best effort has been to run the applet from command line > until I ironed out the dependencies: > /usr/lib/deskbar-applet> ./deskbar-applet > DEBUG Data Dir: /usr/share/deskbar-applet > DEBUG Handlers Dir: > ['/home/nspears/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible', > '/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible'] > > but I have no idea how to add it to an applet for use on the desktop. > Honestly, the panel thing kind of baffles me and I'm not sure where to go > from here. When I try to add a "non-KDE applet" and point it at your script > all I get is a button. > > If there's anyone who wouldn't mind either enlightening me as to how easy > it is, or that's it impossible, to get deskbar-applet running on KDE I'd > appreciate the help.
As such I don't think that it is possible to make deskbar run under KDE, but it should not be difficult to hack it to do so. AFAIK the KDE kicker/plasma can not embed Gnome applets. The alternative strategy would be to make deskbar expose a system tray icon. Since this is based on a cross platform spec it will work in KDE too. I think you can restrict your hacking to deskbar/deskbar-applet.py. You need to add an alternative mode that embeds the button in a gtk.StatusIcon. You can copy much of the code from the window mode found in that file. Cheers, Mikkel
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