• Registered: 2008-12-13
  • Posts: 1,480

Topic: Pypanel

I've been looking into the code for pypanel for corenominal because there is a problem with some application notifications causing the panel to flicker, I haven't been able to reproduce this on my machines because the only software I use that causes this is firefox and I have the downloadstatusbar extension installed so I don't have the notification popup for downloads. If any of you are having this issue could you try running pypanel in a terminal and see if you get any error output when it flickers? Also I have found a couple of patches that add some functionality to pypanel, a volume control and one or two others. I'm going to be putting together the patched version for corenominal to package, if there are any other things you would like pypanel to do (maybe a system monitor or something, not sure what you guys and girls require) then I can try adding it in, just keep in mind I'm still new to python so if it's anything complicated it may take me a while. Also the person here http://oliwer.net/b/ mentioned a similar project to make pypaneli (pypanel improved) but hasn't posted anything new about it in a few months, so I may contact him and see if he's made any progress or changed his mind about it.

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  • From: montpellier,france
  • Registered: 2008-11-27
  • Posts: 177

Re: Pypanel

thanks for your work iggykoopa,
you ask for what we need in pypanel ??
in fact, there is a 'launcher section' in pypanelrc but i never find out how to use it hmm ( my fault i guess)
did you have any info/config/example about that ?? ( cause i can't bear lxpanel )
i really like tint/trayer but pypanel is so light and match so much with crunchbang that i miss it smile
anyway, thanks for coding wink

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  • Registered: 2008-12-13
  • Posts: 1,480

Re: Pypanel

you will have to change the LAUNCHER = 0 line to wherever you want the launchers to show up, LAUNCHER = 1 will have it to the far left. then go to the launchers section and change it like this

LAUNCH_LIST     = [
                   ("first-application", "/path/to/the/app's/icon.png"), 
           ("second-application", "/path/to/the/app's/icon.xpm"),
                   ("third-application", "/path/to/the/app's/icon.png"), 
                  ]

i.e. 

LAUNCH_LIST     = [
                   ("gimp", "/usr/share/icons/xquisite/scalable/apps/gimp.png"), 
                  ]
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  • From: montpellier,france
  • Registered: 2008-11-27
  • Posts: 177

Re: Pypanel

you know what ?? it was explain in the pypanelrc but i just forgot to turn launcher from 0 to 1(or 2,3..) tongue
thanks for quick answer smile
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  • From: Lincoln, UK
  • Registered: 2008-11-20
  • Posts: 4,426

Re: Pypanel

iggykoopa, thank you for this. I love pypanel and if it was not for the flickering, it would be near enough perfect for my needs. It will be great if we can get some collaboration going on the pypaneli project. I am eagerly awaiting any progress with this. Good job!

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  • Registered: 2009-01-30
  • Posts: 2

Re: Pypanel

Any progress on this?  I have the same issue caused by the popups from ForecastFox.  I know a little bit of Python, but I haven't delved into the code yet.  I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the redraws caused by the Firefox popups being animated.

  • From: Ashdown, AR
  • Registered: 2009-01-10
  • Posts: 190

Re: Pypanel

I've been using pypanel for the last few days and love it.  When/if iggy fixes this bug, will it be included as the default panel for lite instead of lxpanel?  Seems to me like a better choice, at least.

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  • Registered: 2008-12-13
  • Posts: 1,480

Re: Pypanel

sorry I've looked into this some and havent been able to track down whats causing it. If anyone has some insight into it I can try looking again, but honestly I think it's a little bit beyond my capabilities at the moment.

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