Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] tracker applet, fixes and extension

["Marcus Fritzsch" <fritschy googlemail com>]

On 8/5/07, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 05:21 +0200, Marcus Fritzsch wrote:
> > It was impossible to launch tracker-search-tool because of a
> > zero-length argv in the exec call ;). Also, if one tried to exec that
> > python thing directly it would stop, do nothing, maybe show an
> > X-cursor because of the missing shebang. This is the fixes.patch
> >
> > The other one, well, does anybody ever wanted something like that? It
> > polls trackerd with GetStatus and shows a popup (a _shabby_ one!) if
> > it changed. This is pretty messy and ugly beginner py+gtk code.
> >
> > I prefer the status applet with notifications ;).
> >
> > An open issue is the icon. There needs to e some makefile magic or so
> > to let the applet know where tracker is installed (and hence has it's
> > icons) - I don't really know where to start with all that
> > autogen/conf/... stuff.
> >
> > Cheers, Marcus
> >
> > PS: the applet should know about the new _1337_ icon!!1
>
> updated with your second patch
>
> dunno about the rest as Im no python guru!

The second on does a GetStatus every 5 seconds, and shows a popup for
3 seconds if trackerd's status changed. The popup code is - well -
what I got working with gtk. I thought that it might be an idea and I
like the popups, but it's not configurable and users might get annoyed
;).

The first patch (not the extension thing) does only fixes some bugs
that made the applet more or less unusable (as e.g. t-s-t could not be
launched).

I'll be clearer about python code in the future, so you have something
to decide.

Best regards and a nice Sunday, Marcus