Re: Writing a Perl GNOME Panel Applet

[Chas Owens <cowens intercall com>]

On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 19:26, Tom Cross wrote:
> I'm trying to make a little panel applet using Ximian's Gtk-Perl
> package.  However I'm not sure if it includes support for Panel Applet's
> or not.  I can't get it to initialize.  I've tried:
>
>
>
> init Gnome::Applet "Menu.pl";
> init Gnome::Panel::Applet "Menu.pl";
> init Gnome::Panel::AppletWidget "Menu.pl";
> init Gnome::AppletWidget "Menu.pl";
>
> They all say that I'm missing the module, but the Gtk-Perl package looks
> like it has something:
>
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Gnome/Applet
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Gnome/Applet.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Gnome/Applet/Install
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Gnome/Applet/Install/Files.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Gnome/Applet/Install/GnomeAppletDefs.h
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Gnome/Applet/Install/GnomeAppletTypemap
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Gnome/Applet/Install/PerlGnomeAppletInt.h
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Gnome/Applet/Install/pkg.typemap
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Gnome/Applet/Types.pm
>
> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!!

Red Hat and Ximian did a bad bad thing.  They put the Gtk modules (along
with a host of other modules that shouldn't be there) in
/use/lib/perl5/5.6.0 instead of /use/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0.  When
you upgraded to Perl 5.6.1 the search path changed (excluding the
version specific directory of /use/lib/perl5/5.6.0).  You have three
solutions (ranked in order of difficulty): download the source and
compile it yourself, run "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Gtk'", or just put

use lib /use/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0;
use lib /use/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux;

at the top of all of your scripts.  I am currently doing numbers 1 and 3
(just in case).

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