Re: [Ayatana-dev] Controlling the order of indicators

[Ramón Rocha <ra.rocha.jr@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/10/18 Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 17:27 -0500, Ramón Rocha wrote:
>> 2010/10/15 Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 16:40 -0500, Ramón Rocha wrote:
>> >> 2010/10/15 Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> >> > We allow the application indicators to move themselves within the
>> >> > application indicator area, but we don't allow them to move themselves
>> >> > into the system indicator area.  So if you had this:
>> >> >
>> >> >  [yours gtg tomboy] sound messaging
>> >> >
>> >> > You could change it to:
>> >> >
>> >> >  [gtg tomboy yours] sound messaging
>> >> >
>> >> > But you won't be able to move your indicator outside of the brackets.
>> >> >
>> >> >                --Ted
>> >>
>> >> Okay, that makes sense from a consistency perspective for ayatana.
>> >> I'm just looking for a quick way to hack the following...
>> >>
>> >> [other panel applets] [sound messaging] [mine] [clock] [session indicators]
>> >>
>> >> I was hoping there was an easy way to do it with app indicators but it
>> >> sounds like I need to create a full blown panel applet.  If you are
>> >> curious my indicator just displays the current time in UTC format,
>> >> hence why I want it next to the clock.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the quick response.
>> >>
>> >> -Ramón
>> >>
>> >> P.S.  Actually would it be possible to add an indicator into the
>> >> session applet?  I realize it's not appropriate to add a UTC clock in
>> >> there but I'm just looking for a quick and dirty implementation that
>> >> will have nice and clean visual results.
>> >
>> > If you install indicator-applet-complete and indicator-datetime you'll
>> > get a clock along with everything grouped on your panel.  The type of
>> > time it displays will be dependent on your locale, but you can adjust
>> > it.
>> >
>> >
>> > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/enable-date-day-seconds-on-indicator-datetime/
>> >
>> >                --Ted
>> >
>>
>> Yeah, I tried that but I want two clocks on the panel.  One in my
>> local time and the other in UTC and I want them next to each other.  I
>> also want the volume/messaging indicator to the left of the clocks and
>> the session indicators to the right.  This would look nicer.
>>
>> Screenshot of what I have now:
>> http://lh5.ggpht.com/_7g8pojmHbyk/TLaA_1p_5kI/AAAAAAAABi0/CW3-uiXoc0Q/s800/utc_indicator_screenshot.png
>>
>> So there is no way to add an indicator into the session applet?
>
> No, not really.  If you want to edit the code it is here for the list:
>
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-applet/applet/annotate/head:/src/applet-main.c#L31
>
> And here for the interpretation of the list:
>
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-applet/applet/annotate/head:/src/applet-main.c#L810
>
>                --Ted
>
>
>
>

Thanks, Ted.  I'll give it a shot.

-Ramón