Comments on: Application Indicators Rocking The House

By: spartaaaaa

spartaaaaa — Thu, 26 May 2011 23:28:52 +0000

To make this work on natty you need to .show() the menu items...

    item = gtk.MenuItem("Regular Menu Item")
    item.show() # Like this
    self.menu.append(item)

check = gtk.CheckMenuItem("Check Menu Item")
check.show()# and this
self.menu.append(check)

By: Owais Lone

Owais Lone — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:27:19 +0000

How can we set a custom PNG icon?..

I tried "file:///path" etc.. but doesn't work

By: Luca Invernizzi

Luca Invernizzi — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:12:40 +0000

Hi Jono, I completed the work on your branch, and commited it to trunk. Now Getting things GNOME embraces appindicate.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:34:16 +0000

I have a question. Why is it that KDE always has to implement everything GNOME does. Why doesn’t GNOME start implementing stuff done by KDE.

By: ulrik

ulrik — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:12:14 +0000

This is a great step forward. Thanks also for the straightforward Python API -- it looks very similar to gtk StatusItem code, should be easy to convert (or allow either conditionally).

Anyway, it's hurting us every day that the linux desktop has no application object, and this is another sign of that. We have application launchers (.desktop), windows, processes and status icons and libunique, but nothing to tie this together. I don't give much for all the ad-hoc solutions out there, but kudos to those who try.

By: But...

But... — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:00:20 +0000

The main problem is that apps shouldn’t be putting this sort of stuff on the panel at all… it was a vaguely useful notion back in 1995, when Windows first popularised it, but we should be thinking way outside that particular box by now.

By: Raphael

Raphael — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:29:25 +0000

Nice! That will (hopefully) make things a bit more clean and consistent. Although I’d love to see a desktop policy about the cases in which to use the application inicator framework to go along with the api specification.

By: Ploum

Ploum — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:19:26 +0000

I agree. I’ve yet to read the new spec but I’m a bit worried about reinventing the infamous MS systray : http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?219-the-aristocratic-desktop-part-3-there-s-no-tray-icon-in-gnome

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By: pt

pt — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:16:34 +0000

Yes when using a dock there is no need for a taskbar, by removing it you create space on the desktop