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[Locked] Dynamical applets [Bug #249]
matttbe English 12 fabounet [Read]
31 July 2013 à 16:58

matttbe, Saturday 31 December 2011 à 10:25


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What do you thing about that: having dynamical applet!
E.g.: if I launch Pidgin, then a new icon will appear in my dock as usual except that it's not a simple icon, it's the Pidgin applet.
Currently, there are a few applets that controls one or more applications: Pidgin, Deluge, Transmission, Liferea, GTG, XChat but also Tomboy, musicPlayer and all *Menu (GnoMenu, Lancelot, MintMenu and Cardapio).
What about an new option to launch these applets but only show it if a linked application is launched.

lylambda, Monday 02 January 2012 à 21:34


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It's like the option "hide icon" to Battery's applet, isn't ? Nice idea, that could be useful

fabounet, Wednesday 04 January 2012 à 12:40


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It's like the option "hide icon" to Battery's applet, isn't ?

I think it's more like starting the applet instead of just displaying the taskbar icon. or maybe replace silently the launcher with the corresponding applet ?

matttbe, Thursday 05 January 2012 à 14:58


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replace silently the launcher with the corresponding applet
It's more: starting the applet when a corresponding application is available in the dock (or starting the applet in the background and display it when the application is launched)
What do you think about that?

It's like the option "hide icon" to Battery's applet, isn't ?
I think we can also do that with Status-Notifier icon, no?

fabounet, Thursday 05 January 2012 à 17:58


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nice idea
although it you often use a program, you will certainely keep it in your dock as a launcher (that's still its main purpose ), so replacing the launcher by the applet would be almost equivalent, and much easier to do than replacing the taskbar icon.

matttbe, Thursday 05 January 2012 à 22:01


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Yes but I don't use Transmission or Deluge so often. But if I use it, I think it can be nice to have the quick info in the icon

fabounet, Monday 09 January 2012 à 16:52


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yep, it's just more difficult to do (I think)
but that's a nice idea

lylambda, Thursday 12 January 2012 à 02:02


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Deluge's example is very good. It's true, I don't use really often this software (just sometime, when I need an "holiday's movie" ), but my dock have the deluge applet because in this case, it's really useful. It's just an example, and we can have a lot of other.

So I agree completely with the dynamical applet idea

matttbe, Monday 22 July 2013 à 18:11


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Up about this idea

Is it really difficult to implement now?
Maybe a new key can be added in the auto-load.conf file with the name of a .desktop file.
When loading third-party applets (but it can also work with musicPlayer applet), these .desktop files can be added to a list and when a new application is added, we can check if this .desktop file is in the list and load the applet?

taiebot65, Monday 22 July 2013 à 20:50


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Very good idea

fabounet, Tuesday 30 July 2013 à 14:56


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that could give them more visibility indeed

matttbe, Tuesday 30 July 2013 à 18:51


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And how to implement that?

fabounet, Wednesday 31 July 2013 à 16:58


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that's a good question
maybe with an idle check that checks for new launchers
or when creating a new launcher
or something else

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[Locked] Dynamical applets [Bug #249]
matttbe English 12 fabounet [Read]
31 July 2013 à 16:58


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