Re: panel applet from shell

["Kevin Vandersloot" <kfv101 hotmail com>]

> From: Jacob Gladish <gladish spinnakernet com>
> To: gnome-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: panel applet from shell
> Date: 02 Sep 2003 19:22:27 -0400
>
>
> I'm working on a very simple gnome2 panel applet, and am having lots of
> difficulty. I basically have two questions.
>
> First, is there a way to launch an applet from a shell? Everytime I try,
> the process runs, but never does anything useful. I've tried different
> args like --oaf-private and --sm-disable with no affect. I thought it
> might be having difficulty with the orb since other applets running seem
> to have a file descriptor to work with. That's why I thougt the
> --oaf-private may have some affect. The --sm-disable was pretty much in
> desperation.

It's very simple. Just start the applet with no arguments, but then add the 
applet in the normal fashion with the right click menu.

> Second, I installed both a .server file under "/usr/lib/bonobo/servers",
> and a .xml under /usr/share/gnome-2.0/ui/, and I still don't have an
> entry to launch my applet from the context menu by right-clicking the
> panel. I have both a panel:category, and panel:icon element in the
> server file. Is there a way to turn some tpe of debugging on for the
> panel to why there's no entry?

I don't think so, have you tried just modifing a .server file from another 
applet like fish? The format should be pretty straight forward.

Regards,
Kevin

> I'm using redhat9, with all stock libs.
>
> thanks
> jake
>
>
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