Re: Writing Gnome2 applets

[Philip Van Hoof <spamfrommailing freax org>]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 11:58, James Kahn wrote:
> I hope I've got the right list for some help here - please refer me to
> the correct one if I'm wrong.
>
> I'm mostly pretty new to this gtk and gnome thing, but I learn things
> pretty quickly.  I'm trying to write a Gnome2 applet but it all seems
> completely different from the way that I read about for Gnome 1 here -
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/applet/index.html.
>
> I've downloaded the source for gnome-applets, but I'm confused as to how
> they are loaded. If I type /usr/lib/gnome-applets/geyes_applet2 in a
> terminal, it fails to load, but it works fine by right clicking on the
> panel so obviously it's not loaded in a "conventional" sense.
>
> Are there any documents available that teach you what you need to know
> to build a gnome2 applet?  Or can someone write one if not? ;)  Any help
> appreciated here.

A few weeks ago I was too, porting my applications to Gnome2 and I have
not yet found any documentation on PanelApplets in Gnome2 :-(

If you, or others, find documentation about it; please post it here
so that others can read it too :)




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