Kde Taskbar

[Diez B. Roggisch]

DarkBlue schrieb:
> Hello
> 
> In linux I use kmail as my email client under KDE,
> if a message comes in the Kontact button in the
> taskbar changes to blue.
> How can I have the same behaviour in a python app ?
> 
> I have a python script which runs nicely under linux
> now every so often I want to be notified by some event,
> in this case that a record has been added to a database
> and I want to have the application button in the taskbar
> to change color
> 
> Thanks for any pointers , I am out of my depth here

pykde afaik supports systray-iconified apps. And you could use the 
dcop-mechanisms that are available as command line tools as well I 
guess, and invoke knotify.

Hope this gives you some pointers - I'm currently on my mac so I can't 
provide an actual example.

Diez