[Ayatana-dev] Slight issue with menu recreation and menu formatting

[Cristian Henzel <oss@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello everyone,


I am working on a clipboard manager for GTK written in C and I am having
a couple of problems with the migration to the AppIndicator.

Firstly, I need to recreate the menu periodically, so that it reflects
the current history items. I have a function that executes every
half-second and I could insert the function for the menu recreation
there, but if I recreate the menu while the menu is visible, it will
refresh and that looks ugly. I searched the AppIndicator C API for a
function on how to see if the menu is active/visible, but couldn't find
anything and the function I normally use (gtk_widget_get_visible)
doesn't work. I would propose to either implement a function to see the
active status of the menu, or change the "visible" property of the menu,
so one could get the active status using gtk_widget_get_visible.

The second problem I am having is that the current menu of the indicator
doesn't support any formatting. I used code like:

gchar* bold_text = g_markup_printf_escaped("<b>%s</b>", list_item);
gtk_label_set_markup((GtkLabel*)item_label, bold_text);

to make the text bold on a menu item, but this doesn't seem to work with
the appindicator menu. Is this intended, is it a bug, or is it just a
feature that wasn't implemented yet?


Thank you very much for taking the time to read my e-mail and respond.

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Best regards,
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Cristian Henzel
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