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tasty_minerals

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Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 191

Making a simple applet to sit in a tray

I want to make a simple applet to put it in a tray. Let's say it will be for gnome taskbar or tint2. My applet should show system temperature or any other simple information by probing at a fixed amount of time /proc or maybe providing this info by clicking on the applet itself, I still have not decided.

My knowledge is limited, since I don't know where to start. What I need is some little info, on the difficulty of the matter, provided I'm fairly ok with bash, but that's it. Where do I start and what should I read first? There should be gui, then is it gtk, qt or something else? Maybe somebody got a good link or just your opinion will be a good start for me.

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ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Making a simple applet to sit in a tray

http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/ … sIcon.html

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tasty_minerals

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Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 191

Re: Making a simple applet to sit in a tray

thank you for the link

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