Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 00:25 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 11:18 +1100, Danielle Madeley wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 22:54 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
> > 
> > > > It would be much cleaner to
> > > > either expose the underlying dbus api or proxy something that is
> > > > explicitly designed with this in mind: GtkActions.
> > > 
> > > That's a great idea.  What do you think would be a good API/name
> for a
> > > function that did that?  Do you think it should take an array of
> actions
> > > or some sort of root action?  Do you think that the function that
> takes
> > > a GtkMenu * should be deprecated?
> > 
> > It seems to me that it should probably take a GtkUIManager path.
> > 
> > It can then serialise the menu description and association
> GtkActions
> > over the bus to be recreated on the other side.
> > 
> > Applications creating their menus directly and not using
> GtkUIManager
> > should probably be ported anyway.
> 
> There's a number of things you cannot do with GtkUIManager and
> GtkActions though, which is have access to the presentation of the
> menus.
> 
> In gnome-bluetooth, I'd like to have bold menu items to represent
> connected devices. I would also like to have some control over whether
> device names will be ellipsised (or how). Both of which are currently
> not possible with GtkActions.

This is not impossible. You just have to add some custom data to the
GtkAction and a custom connect_proxy callback that applies this to the
widgets.

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