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.
>
> I have a copy of it.  I have been using it as a basis for some personal
> work I am doing.  If people are interested in it, I will put it up on a
> page and continue development.


Just one more question since there are these python versions flying
around: it seems to me that these python codes start everything from
scratch i.e. the whole communication with NetworkManager. Since we
already have nm-applet which is GTK-based, isn't it very simple to
write a GTK app based on that? Am I right in assuming that the only
thing one has to do is embed the content of the applet window into a
root GTK window and than it will automagically turn into a stand alone
GTK app?

Cheers,
Daniel