On Monday 28 August 2006 16:03, David Boddie wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:11:58 +1000, Gavin wrote: > > So I wrote a small but fairly useful python program > > that I thought would make a good applet. Then on attempting to > > dock/imbed it in the kde kicker I find that this procedure > > is causing a lot of people pain. > > It can be an "interesting" experience, yes. > > > So here's the question is it not possible/easier to build > > a C applet/tray that will swallow any python script written for it? > > That's what happened in the end. Jim Bublitz and I made lots of different > prototypes, but there always seemed to be something or other than didn't > work as expected. :-/ > > > Kind of along the same lines as the 'System Tray' or 'Task Bar' > > call it perhaps 'Python Tray/Bar'. Then all the user has to do > > is load it and point its config to the python script/s. > > Jim actually wrote a tool to add Python scripts to the panel. I turned it > into a Control Centre module at one point but, until Simon Edwards got > round to writing PyKDE Extensions*, it was pretty much undeployable on any > other machine than my own. > > * http://www.simonzone.com/software/pykdeextensions/ > > > The 'Dock Application Bar' does this for dock apps but it's > > not very flexible. Perhaps I'm missing some terrible complication > > or maybe someone already knows exactly how this could be cleanly done? > > Either way please let me know any thoughts > > gavinkz(at)webmail(dot)co(dot)za. I would be happy to offer my meager > > coding and testing skills at which point I guess I would subscribe > > I should probably take another look at this and just upload what I have > to a site somewhere.
I started putting something like this together - I think KPanelApplet and KPanelExtension work OK, and the installer also works. I got hung up on some other features and never got around to finishing or releasing it. I think I've sent someone a copy in the last few months, but don't recall any feedback. I've decided to put it aside until KDE 4 is released, and will probably get back to it some time after that.. Jim _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
