Comments on: Indicator applet API changes in Ubuntu 9.10

By: garethj

garethj — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:40:27 +0000

We had an internal API to access some calendaring features so I was using it for meeting notifications.

By: daniel

daniel — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:15:14 +0000

what's the internal app?

By: garethj

garethj — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:31:58 +0000

I would imagine so but I've never looked at the C API so don't know for sure.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:05:27 +0000

Interesting. Would this impact the C API in a similar manner?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:04:01 +0000

Interesting. Would this impact the C API in a similar manner?

By: Tom Cowell

Tom Cowell — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:18:09 +0000

It's not what I was seeing, but you've actually answered a question for me that I was going to ask! I was wondering how Empathy, Pidgin, Evolution and Gwibber all seem to have their place in it when the application isn't running! I'll consider that functionality, or at least recommend it to the emesene developers.

I'll keep playing around and see what I can come up with – I'll let you know my results!

By: garethj

garethj — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:26:41 +0000

Worth noting that with Karmic, any entry in /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/ will appear permanently in the indicator applet. It seems that if the description is visible (from the .desktop file) then the app is not running and when the app is started (i.e. the server is created), the description disappears. I believe the ultimate plan is for users to be able to customize a bit more this themselves. Maybe this is what you're seeing?

By: Tom Cowell

Tom Cowell — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:15:52 +0000

server.hide() doesn't work. I've used server.disconnect(handleID), that does stop the server from working but the entry stays in the applet. If I start the plugin again, I get two indicators each time, stop/start it again, 3, etc etc.

I'm new to python so maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I did also try making the server object NULL, which didn't work either :

I can't release the plugin until that's fixed!

By: garethj

garethj — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:52:55 +0000

No problem – glad it helped! As for removing the server item, does server.hide() work? I haven't tried it lately but I have a feeling I used that previously. You could also try removing all references to the server instance so the object is destroyed. Let me know how you get on.

By: Tom Cowell

Tom Cowell — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:26:16 +0000

Thanks for this! I'm building a plugin for emesene, and was wondering why it kept breaking since I installed Karmic!

Any ideas how to remove a server item from the applet? Being a plugin, I need to be able to stop and remove the server from the applet when the user disables the plugin. So far, all I can make of other applications behaviour is that it removes it when the application is closed.

Cheers!