Re: Panel applets with Gtk2-Perl and Gnome2

["Randy J. Ray" <rjray blackperl com>]

> There are several existing applets already, using 
> Gtk2::TrayIcon (available from sourceforge and i think from CPAN, but 
> not part of the bindings release set), e.g., YARSSR: 
> http://yarssr.sourceforge.net/

A tray icon isn't quite the same thing. I was thinking of something more like a 
sticky-note app or resource monitoring.

> There are bindings for libpanelapplet in CVS, as Gnome2::PanelApplet, 
> but last i recall there was some minor bug in them that kept them from 
> working.  Just now i went through to compile them and possibly put a 
> tarball up on sourceforge, and found what i think is a pretty 
> interesting bug, so we'll see how that pans out.

I'll be interested to see this. I could write my app using Gtk2::TrayIcon, but 
that limits where on the panel it can be placed.

Randy
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