Re: [Tracker] System tray icon and monitor

["Samuel Cormier-Iijima" <sciyoshi gmail com>]

On 10/31/06, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com> wrote:
> 2006/10/31, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
> > Samuel Cormier-Iijima wrote:
> > > It also needs PyGTK 2.10 for the StatusIcon. I was thinking something
> > > like Google Desktop (if any of you have tried it for Windows) which
> > > has a tray icon for searching. Anyways it was just a thought. Another
> > > thing I coded up for fun was a sort of webserver in Python that serves
> > > search results through HTTP. Would anyone else be interested in this?
>
> Did some small tweaks on the status icon.
>
>  - Removed  dependency on Python dbus bindings (they where not used)
>  - Removed external dependency on icon
>
> Updated script attached. There is still not much point in it I guess. People
> might as well add a launcher to the panel for the same functionality...

Yea, there really isn't much point to it :-). The idea was that people
could have some sort of indication of how Tracker is doing in the
system tray - something along the lines of Google Desktop for Windows.

> About a tracker icon: Tracker really needs something leet. If you ask me a
> looking glass with an arrow does not cut it. In deskbar we have a lightning
> comming out of the looking glass, that is leet. Everybody likes lightning!
> Seriously; I don't have any good ideas right now, but a good icon is good
> branding.

If anybody comes up with ideas, I'd be glad to try to make a
cool-looking icon. Anyways, I think it's better than what's currently
on the Tracker website (a looking glass with a T inside it, lol :-))

Samuel Cormier-Iijima