-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen schrieb: > On 03/04/2008, *Nathan Spears* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[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. > I like the idea so much that I implemented it right away. It's in svn trunk now. Start Deskbar from the command line with the "-t" option. It only works in the window mode (not sticky).
Give it a try and let me know what you think! - -- Greetings, Sebastian Pölsterl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH9Mtf1ygZeJ3lLIcRAn3KAKCwTcS6wGuDzmZgRf2UVLs3X6cGGACfSFTt agwMo4/KjcSgzzW69YJ//YI= =QRuN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ deskbar-applet-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/deskbar-applet-list
