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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everyone,
it seems that webupd8 has a PPA for yad.
I have successfully built the ISO and installed yad in the live version.
I have tested some of our small tray icons, and they seem to do decently
well.  There are a few things I will need to tweak and work out, but it
looks good.  I think I can modify the .jwmrc and our programs to work
well with this setup.  I can exit 1 from them if yad is not installed,
and no arguments are passed (in case we want to use the dialogs in the
program for information purposes in other settings).
This will allow me to do something like:
torios-battery | xfce4-power-manager
torios-volume | volumeicon
etc...
I also have a minimally working installer icon.  This would allow the
user to simply search for a package to install from a tray icon.

I also have a minimalistic tray icon written in c now that performs many
simple tasks based on command line parameters.
This includes:
setting the tray icon
setting the tray icon's tooltip
creating a menu based on :delimited list (NAME:ACTION:NAME:ACTION...etc)
and the ability to create a small info dialog from it, as well (the icon
would be the same as the tray icon)
I have not yet implemented changing the icon during runtime, or changing
anything else while it is running.
It is small >200 lines
and compiles quite small (15K)
so it suits our purposes quite well.  There is a bit of work to make it
able to change the icon (in the case of a battery, volume,network
indicator), but it will work for many other small purposes.
I have tested it using something like bash -c 'command to run' which
means in a script you could potentially
export -f functionname
and then use bash -c 'functionname' as a commandline parameter.

I am still getting used to GTK (instead of FLTK) and C rather than C++
So even if we do not use this for ToriOS, it is (like everything else) a
nice experiment for me to learn from.

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Regards