system tray or notification area in python

[Prasad, Ramit]

Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I'm using a stand alone window manager without gnome or kde or any
> >> other de. But I still would like to have a system tray or notification
> >> area and so far used stalonetray for this. Stalonetray is written in C
> >> and is a GTK application, works all right but sometimes it doesn't.
> >> For instance if it is killed and restarted icons don't come back, etc,
> >> etc, there are some quirks.
> >>
> >> So I thought I would write a brand new stand alone system tray or
> >> notification area in python. I guess I need to use gtk bindings or
> >> some such but don't really know what my options are.
> >>
> >> Where would I start something like this?
> >> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
> >>
> > Why not look at the source code of the current app your using to get
> > an idea how that application accomplishes said task?
> 
> I actually did that already it's using the C bindings of gtk.
> You might ask you I'm not modifying the code in order to achieve what
> I want, well, the answer is that I'd much rather prototype something
> like this in python than work immediately with gtk from C.
> 
> But I have zero experience with gui programming in python. So any
> pointers would be much appreciated how to implement a system tray in
> python. Gtk is I guess just one option, one could use other stuff from
> python but I wouldn't know what the simplest approach is.
> 
> 

I have used wxpython and thought it was powerful and reasonably easy 
to use. I have no experience with other Python frameworks but I know 
wxpython is a popular choice and I would guess it has an active community.

That is my two cents (or lowest denomination currency for your locale).

> 
> > You could always use raw X11 libs but leveraging something like Gtk or
> > Qt/KDE would probably be much easier.
> 

~Ramit


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