On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 23:51 +1000, Nigel Tao wrote: > This is mostly an announcement, but it's also 1) my first foray into > GNOME hacking and 2) only my second foray into Python, and I am hoping > for a little help, or some general feedback. > > > > Gnome has an Applications menu, and an Actions menu. I wrote a > Bookmarks menu, to get to my browser's bookmarks. This idea seems to > have been tried before (see RELATED WORK section below), but various > similar projects appear out-of-date or incomplete. > > A screenshot is worth a thousand words, and is at > http://browserbookapp.sourceforge.net/screenshot-0.1.png
Cool! > > > > Source code (GPL) is at > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=122136&package_id=133931&release_id=278276 > > > > > > CAVEATS > ------- > Right now it only reads Firefox bookmarks. Support for Epiphany and > Mozilla is planned. What about Galeon?! :) Galeon uses XBEL, and official bookmarks XML standard. > > > HELP! (AKA GNOME API AND OTHER QUESTIONS) > > ------------------------------------------ > > The menu (or applet?) has a border around it, but the gnome main menu > applet "Applications Actions menu" does not. The screenshot shows > this (see the vertical bars to the left and right of the blue > "Bookmarks" menu). How do I get rid of the border? menubar.set_property("shadow-type", gtk.SHADOW_NONE) > > I'm not fluent in [auto]make or RPM .spec files, and would appreciate > some help. I found the pygnome-hello example and am looking at that, > but it isn't a panel applet, so I am not entirely sure how to adapt it > to: > 1) install my .server file into the right place An potential example for installing .server files > (/usr/lib/bonobo/server in general, but .../lib64/... on x86_64). Hm.. I doubt that .server files need to be installed in a lib64 dir. And I doubt even more that bonobo picks them up if you do. Anyway, you should simply let autoconf figure it out by using the expression $libdir/bonobo/servers in the Makefile.am. > 2) restart whatever needs to be restarted (gnome-panel?? > bonobo-activation-server??) on installation for it to show up in the > "Add to Applet" option in the panel context menu. I think it shows up in the menu immediately, at least with latest libbonobo. Nothing needs to be restarted. > > Also, any leads on writing a .spec file or packaging a python > gnome-applet as an RPM? I am completely lost in figuring out what the > dependencies are - I presume gnome-panel, gnome-python2 and > gnome-python2-applet - but how do I find out what else (and what > versions) my software depends on? > And is the gnome-python / gnome-python-applet distinction a > distribution-specific thing? Yes, it's a distribution-specific thing. The official packages are pygtk and gnome-python. > > > > > > RELATED WORK > > ------------ > > An old (1999) mailing list post talks about creating a Netscape > Bookmarks sub-menu of the foot menu > (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devel-list/1999-September/msg00024.html) - > Miguel de Icaza replied that "it seems a very good idea", but I don't know where it > went from there. PyGnome 1.4 had a Netscape bookmarks applet > (pygnome/examples/bookmarks-applet.py), but this seems to have been dropped in more > recent versions of gnome-python. > > > > Gnome Bookmarks Organizer (gnobog) at http://www.nongnu.org/gnobog/ is > slightly different (it has its own frame rather than being a panel > applet) and looks like it's been superseded by Firefox's Bookmarks > sidebar. > > > > The Nautilus-Menu applet (http://bitpoetry.com/programs/nautilusmenu/) > and bookmark-applet (http://gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=278) look > pretty similar, but they provide access to GTK file-chooser bookmarks > (local files), not provide access to the browser bookmarks (URLs). > > > > > > cheers, > > Nigel. > > _______________________________________________ > pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk > Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/ -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
