Re: [gnome-love] adding an applet to the panel's list

[Jon Dowland <lists alcopop org>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 02:32:02PM +0100, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> As some of you may know, I develop a little Gnome panel applet. I'm
> coming up to (dare I say it) a 1.0 release. My problem: when my app is
> installed (via rpm or deb or whatever) my applet doesn't make it on to
> the Gnome "add to panel..." menu until the user logs out and back in.
> Obviously, this is bad for usability, so I'd like to ask for help.
>
> Currently, on installation, the following happens:
> * default settings are installed via gconftool-2
> * killall -SIGHUP gconfd-2
>
> Is there something else I should be doing? "killall -SIGHUP
> gnome-panel" works, but it's a little, huh huh, extreme... "killall
> -SIGHUP bonobo-activation-server" kills b-a-s and it appears not to
> come back. I've looked at other panel applets but I can't see what
> they are doing different.

I am developing a little panel applet and have had the same problem. I
would also appreciate any advice on this matter.

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