Re: running gnome applet as stand alone application

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:44 -0800, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> > Ack, this didn't get sent to the right place too, Sorry Daniel.
> >
> > > Well, the thing is that I don't want to run any trays. All I'm running
> > > is sawfish which does nothing else than managing the windows which is
> > > perfectly fine for me. If I could launch the networkmanager applet
> > > window from command line that would be great.
> >
> > It needs the tray.  There are a number of standalone trays, or you can
> > also run any panel that implements that part of the freedesktop spec.
> > If you really want a different client, you might want to google
> > pynetworkmanager.  I'm not sure what its development status is, or if
> > it even works with the new version of NetworkManager.
> >
> > PS, check there if you want to develop a 'standalone' program.  AFAIK,
> > the gnome-applet is in C, so the barrier to forking into a standalone
> > program is higher.
> 
> It seems pynetworkmanager is abandonware, it completely disappeared
> from the web (apart from a couple of dead links on pages of some linux
> distros that were packaging it).
> 
> I guess I'll just have to look into the source then, but I think a
> stand-alone application would be useful for quite many based on the
> number of such queries on various email lists.

What sort of behavior are you trying to get out of a "standalone"
application?  Just something that doesn't depend on Gnome?

Dan