Re: running gnome applet as stand alone application

["Daniel Fetchinson" <fetchinson googlemail com>]

> > > 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?

Yes and no :)

It can depend on Gnome libraries, I don't mind that, but it should run
without running Gnome at the same time or without running any tray
application. In other words it should be an application that has his
own GUI (which GUI can of course depend on Gnome libraries and GTK
stuff) which will merely consist of 1 window, the exact same window
that appears when one clicks on the applet.

At the cost of being too pedantic let me rephrase again: I would like
to have the same functionality as the applet without running Gnome or
any tray-like application.