On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Andreas Schik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-07-04 16:58:16 +0200 "Nicolas Roard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Andreas Schik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> I have integrated a system tray as specified by freedesktop.org into the >>> menu server. >>> The reason was that I want/need a couple of apps (non-GNUstep) that make >>> use of a system tray and wanted to avoid the usage of some external tray >>> application, e.g. stalonetray. They do not integrate well (if at all) with >>> the Étoilé desktop :-) >>> Moreover, the menulets for the menu server are nice, but not really >>> satisfactory (too static!) and I cannot port all those apps from GTK/Qt/you >>> name it to GNUstep for usage with menu server. An finally, the system tray >>> is a standard by now that should be provided by any desktop. >>> >>> Right now the tray icons are listed to the left of the menulets (see, >>> screenshot), this is the safest place for dynamic icons and the tray does >>> not respect the --small option of the menu server (does anyone use that at >>> all?), but it works. >>> If you are interested, I'd be willing to donate this to the project. Mind, >>> that the code is full of X11 magic, but other parts of Étoilé are so, too >>> :-) So, I don't think this is a drawback. It cannot be helped anyway :-) >> >> Hehe :) >> >> It's very cool indeed! >> Maybe submit the code for review on http://review.etoileos.com ? >> > How do I use that? In particular I am unsure about "Base Diff Path". What is > that? > Another problem is that I cannot get access to SVN right now to grab an > actual version for the diff. It rejects my ssh key. I have generated and > uploaded a new one. Let's see what happens :-) > Ah, BTW, does there exists a common notification system by now? I mean some > standard way to display "bubble help" (that's what freedesktop calls it). It > is not urgent, as most systray apps do not seem to use the systray's service > for this purpose, but do it on their own :-(
There is *tooltip* in NSView. It works basically, but not perfect. Yen-Ju > > Andreas > > -- > Mail: andreas dot schik at web dot de > Home: http://www.andreasheppel.de > > PGP Key is available from the MIT key server (pgp.mit.edu). > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
