Re: [Deskbar] Using Deskbar in KDE

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen schrieb:
> On 03/04/2008, *Nathan Spears* <spearofsolomon gmail com
> <mailto:spearofsolomon gmail com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey guys,
> 
>     Before I say anything else, I'd like to compliment your application,
>     which seems to be a well-planned and slickly-developed app. 
> 
>     I am not a novice to linux but in the desktop world I have a lot to
>     learn.  I am giving open suse a shot and decided to use KDE based on
>     a couple recommendations.
> 
>     An application launcher has become one of my must-haves, and I tried
>     and rejected katapult and beagle in short order.  katapult is pretty
>     but has little functionality, and beagle has lots of great
>     functionality but not quite the right feel.  I have spent a couple
>     hours figuring out what gnome libraries your application requires
>     and getting them installed, but I still can't seem to get it
>     actually working.
> 
>     At this point my best effort has been to run the applet from command
>     line until I ironed out the dependencies:
>     /usr/lib/deskbar-applet> ./deskbar-applet
>     DEBUG    Data Dir: /usr/share/deskbar-applet
>     DEBUG    Handlers Dir:
>     ['/home/nspears/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible',
>     '/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible']
> 
>     but I have no idea how to add it to an applet for use on the
>     desktop.  Honestly, the panel thing kind of baffles me and I'm not
>     sure where to go from here.  When I try to add a "non-KDE applet"
>     and point it at your script all I get is a button.
> 
>     If there's anyone who wouldn't mind either enlightening me as to how
>     easy it is, or that's it impossible, to get deskbar-applet running
>     on KDE I'd appreciate the help.
> 
> 
> As such I don't think that it is possible to make deskbar run under KDE,
> but it should not be difficult to hack it to do so.
> 
> AFAIK the KDE kicker/plasma can not  embed Gnome applets. The
> alternative strategy would be to make deskbar expose a system tray icon.
> Since this is based on a cross platform spec it will work in KDE too.
> 
> I think you can restrict your hacking to deskbar/deskbar-applet.py. You
> need to add an alternative mode that embeds the button in a
> gtk.StatusIcon. You can copy much of the code from the window mode found
> in that file.
> 
I like the idea so much that I implemented it right away.
It's in svn trunk now. Start Deskbar from the command line with the "-t"
option. It only works in the window mode (not sticky).

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl
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