Hello, I have a script (implemented as a nautilus script) which does a fairly lengthy task. To show the user that something is going on, I wanted to use a gtk.StatusIcon, preferably a blinking one. But, the StatusIcon never appears, not even after show()ing it.
It looks like the status icon will only appear when a gtk.main() loop is running, which is not the case here since the script is a linear task and has no main loop. I tried to "wrap" the script inside of an idle function, which is called from a main loop, but that does not work either (because the idle callback is called only once and then calls gtk.main_quit(), I assume). I got it to work using a small blinker.py which does nothing but show the blinking icon and enter a main loop. This blinker.py is now called via subprocess.Popen at the beginning of the script and killed via subprocess.terminate() at the end. I do not like this method, since it will leave an ever-blinking icon if the main script gets killed or dies unexpectedly. Any chance to get a gtk.StatusIcon or similar without a main loop? Thanks, Andreas _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [email protected] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
