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akash_rawal · Posted: Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:21 Post_subject:

Upgraded to version 2.2

Changelog:

Fixed frequent crashes with progressbars (Still not so good, it still crashes occasionally)
Now using real transparency if compositing manager is used.

akash_rawal · Posted: Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:34 Post_subject:

akash_rawal · Posted: Sun 22 Jan 2012, 05:46 Post_subject:

Upgraded to version 2.3

Changelog:

Completely fixed crashing issues with progressbars (The problem was that gtkdialog was multithreaded. This led to frequent race conditions with gtkdialog-desklet)

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1239 Location: Ukraine

Dear akash_rawal,

Compiles in and works really nicely in Lucid. Very clever programming, I must say. Thanks. I think we should have a section on the forum devoted to gtkdialog-desklets. I can't wait to write some myself. I can see conky being replaced by such a desklet, and heaps of other nice desktop apps.

With kind regards,
vovchik

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2199 Location: UK

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

Geoffrey · Posted: Mon 23 Jan 2012, 02:30 Post_subject:

Nice one 01micko,

I've been waiting to see some development with this, it still is a bit buggy with xfce but seem to work ok with true transparency.

Here it is on Saluki, looks brilliant, thanks for this, we might see a bit more of it now, I feel inspired but you beat me to it with the weather, as that was the only thing I could think of that I felt was needed.

akash_rawal · Posted: Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:35 Post_subject:

Great widget 01micko. Well done.

Strangely I couldn't get the correct font color even in the gtkdialog mode, or else I was about to suggest using a custom gtkrc file for gtkdialog-desklet too.

If custom gtkrc files work for gtkdialog then they should work too for gtkdialog-desklet as it no longer depends on gtkrc files for transparency.

But <span> tag still works. However it stops working after refreshing label widget.

I am attaching screenshot of my own calendar widget. It is a work in progress, on changing months <span> tags stop working.

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2199 Location: UK

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 841

Wow! Crawling through a 200k load of html to tease out pertinent weather details - now that's the kind of person I want organizing my search party if ever I go missing. Smile

01micko, really a fantastic effort.

A minor change to the regular gtkdialog part-

akash_rawal · Posted: Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:48 Post_subject:

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2449

On a similar note, for apps that use a terminal window there's Eterm in transparent mode. I use that for cpu-usage.

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1239 Location: Ukraine

Dear puppians,

I think gtkdialog-desklets is a great thing that we should be exploring more actively. During my explorations, Newton's Third Law of Motion came to mind:

akash_rawal · Posted: Fri 13 Apr 2012, 15:16 Post_subject:

Upgraded to version 3.0

Changelog:

Package renamed to gtk2desklet
Now works with many GTK2 programs, not just gtkdialog.
The module now has wrapper-free operation. The gtkdialog-desklet script is now just a deprecated wrapper. Make the program load module directly instead (see first post)
No temporary directories used anymore
GTK theme refreshing is now handled using signals (just send SIGUSR1 signal to the program, something like kill -s USR1 <process-id>)

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1239 Location: Ukraine

Dear akash_rawal,

I love it. And we should try to get more of us interested in using this little gem. All I can say is "hats off"!. Brilliant.

Thanks and kind regards,
vovchik