Re: Notification or applet?

[Sander Marechal <s marechal jejik com>]

Ali Abdallah wrote:
> Sander Marechal wrote:
> > I am wondering how I should program this. I know about Gnome applets but
> > it's not really an applet (like Pidgin and Rhythmbox aren't applets but
> > full-blown applications). But I have read that the notification area
> > shouldn't be (ab)used for this either.
> >   
> You have to use GtkStatusIcon here, in this way your application will
> not depend on a specific platform.
>
> > Also, my application needs to show notification popups every now and
> > again.
> >   
> You can use Libnotify to send notification to the daemon notification
> server, Libnotify makes the notification easy, you could also with it
> attach your notification to the status icon that you create.

Thanks for your advice. I have managed to make it work using
GTkStatusIcon and Pynotify. In case you're interested in the source:

http://svn.jejik.com/viewvc.cgi/jukebox/jukebox-gtk/trunk/

-- 
Sander Marechal