Despite my best intentions to document everything I've tried so far in this general area, I've not been able to achieve as much as I'd have liked. I've started writing up an IOSlaves tutorial for the Python Wiki at
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/IoSlavesTutorial which should probably be moved to somewhere beneath http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PyKDE but this has stalled because I got distracted with writing yet another Python shell: http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/KDE/Images/khpython-0.4.png http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/KDE/Software/khpython-0.4.zip Still, the latest IOSlaves work is available at http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/KDE/Software/ioslaves-2003-07-09.zip for those interested in giving it a try. The panel applet work is at http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/KDE/Software/panel-applets-11-07-2003.zip but it should be noted that there are problems concerning applets and session management which I've not yet managed to solve. If you start a Python applet then log out, you might find that the panel doesn't start the next time you log in; you're presented with a nice crash dialog instead. Sometimes, this happens when you log out, too. You can get your panel back by editing out the offending applet in your ~/.kde/share/config/kickerrc file and restarting kicker with "kdeinit kicker" or similar. I'd be interested to learn how any brave experimenters get on with any of the above. All the best, David _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde