[pygtk] Browser Bookmarks Menu (Gnome Applet) 0.1
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 This idea seems to have been tried before (see RELATED WORK section below), but various similar projects appear out-of-date or incomplete.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 Source code (GPL) is at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=122136package_id=133931release_id=278276 CAVEATS --- Right now it only reads Firefox bookmarks. Support for Epiphany and Mozilla is planned. 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? 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 (/usr/lib/bonobo/server in general, but .../lib64/... on x86_64). 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. 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? 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/
Re: [pygtk] Browser Bookmarks Menu (Gnome Applet) 0.1
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=122136package_id=133931release_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/
[pygtk] Packing widgets inside a Cell
Hi: I need to pack a gtk.Expander inside a cell in a treeview, is this possible?, do i use pack_start() method? any tip about it? regards -- Fernando San Martín Woerner GNOME Foundation Membership Jefe de Informática http://www.gnome.org Galilea S.A.http://www.galilea.cl/snmartin ___ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
Re: [pygtk] Packing widgets inside a Cell
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:56:19PM -0300, Fernando San Mart?n Woerner wrote: I need to pack a gtk.Expander inside a cell in a treeview, is this possible?, Not currently. For any particular widget you want in a cell a CellRenderer needs to be implemented. gtk+ 2.4 has CellRenderers for text (which can be editable), pixbufs, and toggle buttons, and 2.6 will have combobox and progressbar renderers. do i use pack_start() method? pack_start is for packing CellRenderer's into a TreeViewColumn. Dave Cook ___ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
