Am 16.10.12 22:39, schrieb Daniel Fetchinson:
Hi folks,
So I thought I would write a brand new stand alone system tray or
notification area in python. I guess I need to use gtk bindings or
some such but don't really know what my options are.
Where would I start something like this?
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
Why not look at the source code of the current app your using to get
an idea how that application accomplishes said task?
I actually did that already it's using the C bindings of gtk.
I think you are mistaken - if its this one:
http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net/
I had a quick look into the sources, it does not use gtk at all, it uses
low level X11 calls. Programming in this way is very tedious.
But I have zero experience with gui programming in python. So any
pointers would be much appreciated how to implement a system tray in
python. Gtk is I guess just one option, one could use other stuff from
python but I wouldn't know what the simplest approach is.
I'm not sure it is even possible. "Usual" GUI applications just need to
request certain features from their window manager such as the setting
the program icon or requesting a certain position on the screen. That is
what is implemented in the usual toolits like Tk, QT, and gtk.
A window manager, on the other hand, must be able to recieve and
interpret these messages. For a system tray, they are described here:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-0.3.html
I have not studied the whole interface of the aforementioned toolkits,
but I suspect that there is no way around writing low level Xlib code in
order to recieve these messages.
Don't take it wrong, but when you write that you have no experience with
GUI programming, I'd start another projet first - I think you will have
a tough way to succeed with this project.
Christian
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