Having been defeated by panel applets*, I've turned my attention towards KDE Control Centre modules (Control Center for those in the US ;-) ).
A quickly assembled, poorly documented archive of an example module is available from the following URL. I hope it builds and works correctly on systems other than mine but all the usual disclaimers apply, particularly those involving risks to your data. There may be problems with it that I haven't yet encountered. http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/KDE/Software/kcontrol-python-14-08-2003.zip Having unpacked this, building the support library should be a simple matter of invoking a suitable shell, entering the KControl/Default directory and typing python build.py build Installation needs to be done as root, so we type su -c "python build.py install" If all goes well, the module can then be located in the Desktop section of the Control Centre. Alternatively, typing kcmshell defaultpython should allow you to see it in standalone form. As you might expect, su -c "python build.py uninstall" removes the module from its installed location. As usual, having put something together, I couldn't think of an impressive demonstration of its use so I hope that this is useful to someone out there. Have fun, David * I can get one Python panel applet working properly on the panel. If there are two or more on the panel then everything appears to be fine until a panel restart occurs. Only then is it apparent that the interpreter is being shared across all applets and that it doesn't like to be invoked that way unless threading is enabled. Unfortunately, it seems that enabling Python threading conflicts with sip so, unless I can see a way to isolate instances of the interpreter, panel applets remain just out of reach. :-( _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
