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[technosaurus]

I just finished my simple icon tray tool that will allow unlimited number of trayicons with user defined icons,refresh intervals, left and right click actions. all you have to do to update icons is change a symlink and popups can be anything you want (including a gtkdialog script)

This will allow a single tray applet to do as many functions as you would like, network monitor, temperature monitor, volume control, load, battery, clipboard, ... pretty much anything you can dump into an icon. This means less resource usage than running multiple tray applets.

here is a template for using it:

[technosaurus]

Here is the beginning of the applet suite - a drive tray for the tray

[snayak]

Dear technosaurus,

It is an excellent try.
I fought a whole day lot to get my CPU temperature on my desktop.
I had to tweak Pwidgets.

Actually, I was looking for something similar to this.
I have an idea. Hope, I'll discuss it in Idea discussion sub-forum.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76451

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

[SFR]

@technosaurus:

This is what I've been waiting for.
I've combined your "sit" with my "SIT", and everything works flawlessly at last.

Just one question:
In your build-script's test routine there's presented a way to get actions when clicking tray icon.
In my script I haven't got click actions handled (no need to); there's refreshing loop instead.
But, for future reference, how to combine both of them (in one script)?

Thanks for the good job and...
Greetings!

[technosaurus]

this is currently a developer tool not an application (though I may provide some examples that actually get used, I prefer to mentor other devs in building the things that prompted me to start this in the first place)
My intent is to provide something simple yet robust that will allow us to build a sort of "pwidgets for the tray ". When/if we get enough applets those will be released as a separate package(s)

Note: If you are having issues with svg, it may be your gtk toolchain

Here is a template for an svg battery (or whatever)

[seaside]

technosaurus,

I just checked this out. What a clever and concise job you've done!

Now the tray can be used for just about anything - generate an icon on the fly - throw it into the tray with left/right click options and have the icons update dynamically by changing links. Very nice.

Tried it in Racy522 and all went perfectly - in Pup431, the SITICONS variable was not set (I guess the structure is somewhat different).

For those with gtk's greater than 2.16 who want to use text in their icons, your program "text2xpm" will do the job instead of using an .svg file.

Great job and thanks,
s
(I guess the .pupevent directory would have to be monitored for newly inserted or removed usb drives as well)

[technosaurus]

[technosaurus]

Another great part about using svg, is that you can embed other images (png etc...) and overlay shapes, text, lines etc...

Here is an example using the default drive icon in Wary:

[technosaurus]

part 2 of svg icons - using a radial gradient

[technosaurus]

part 3 svg icons with embedded text and shapes with gradients

[seaside]

technosaurus,

Thanks for the tips on overlaying.

It prompted me to see if I could get some text into a svg with a Gttk higher than 2.16 and apparently it works when using the entire inkscape coding . (Perhaps not all needed, but I'm not sure what isn't)

Here's a stock-ticker using sit. (Left-Click to edit stocks and Right-click to stop)

[ka9qlq]

IS there a step by step guide to get this up and running with Lucid 5.28?

[technosaurus]

@seaside - cool - the stripped down svgs I posted worked in an older wary with gtk 2.20 so it seemed safe - glad to see it being used

@ ka9qlq - like much of my work, right now it is _just_ a developer tool with some "examples" to help get new developers started building tray applets ... I _could_ write them myself, but I would much rather mentor others that want to learn how to write actual programs ... yeah it takes more of my time to debug someone else's code, but it is more rewarding for me to witness a transition from newbie to intermediate to advanced to master programmer. too many people who could have been code contributors, give up because they just get a bunch of useless "hello world" garbage. What kind of tray applet did you want to have up and running?

[zigbert]

technosaurus
This WILL be helpful one day. - That is for sure.


Thank you!
Sigmund

[ka9qlq]

I'd like to know my cpu speed/temp/%use sounds like I should just install gkrellm