Writing AppIndicator

[bashphoenux]

Hi everyone,

Returned to Ubuntu after using Archlinux for quiet sometime now.
I wanted to know if there are any good resources for appindicator development. I googled but couldn't find that many good tutorials/api page for AppIndicator.
So what I am trying to do is I have a note script for creating notes. I want to create an appindicator that would basically list all notes on a directory and when I click on the note open the note with vim.
Firstly I would like to know if this is feasible using AppIndicator ? If so I would like to know if there good resources to start development on it.
Thanks

[osmoma]

Hello,

EDIT: Pardon. Are you are using Python?

1) Install package libappindicator3-dev

2) Take a look at Audio-recorder. It has a systray module that supports both the older GNOME 2.x and the modern AppIndicator type indicators.
Please see: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~osmoma/...systray-icon.c

The code is rather old now, but it should give you some info.

You probably just want the parts from line 349#....and the general parts above it.
#ifdef HAS_APP_INDICATOR
...
...
#endif

Check also APP_INDICATOR_CFLAG and APP_INDICATOR_LIBS variables in configure.ac for Compiling and Linking. Or do
$ pkg-config --libs appindicator3-0.1
$ pkg-config --cflags appindicator3-0.1

You may have different version of appindicator3.

The A.R:
https://launchpad.net/audio-recorder