gDesklets-0.3x - coming soon to a portage near you!

Obz · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 274

Thanks for the testing, I appreciate it. And after we get gDesklets-0.3x in the tree, I can start adding some new desklets...

servermonk · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 182 Location: MI

I would really like to see the Infocon desklet in the tree if at all possible

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Obz · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 274

Looks like a good candidate servermonk. Here's the http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/categories.php?func=gd_show_app&gd_app_id=178 for those of you playing at home.

ksskruthic · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

Hi,
my desklets, cornerXMMS and goodweather are not working. i have posted the error for goodweather in my previous post.. Anyone kindly help me out..

Thank you..
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rhill · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

i got the same error on goodweather as well as some other add-ins. about half the desklets in portage didn't work for me =/.

what i did is opened the gdesklet manager by doing:

ksskruthic · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

Hi,
Thx for ur reply dirtyepic,
Previously i was doing the same..(Drag-and-drop) with *.gz file but even then there was an error.. The desklets i installed were from the website itlself.. Moreover i also tried downloading the *gz, unzipping it and then running the install_Good_Weather.bin file. It installed succesfully. The message was:

servermonk · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 182 Location: MI

Hey ksskruthic:
Are you using this new 0.31.1 gDesklets? Because the corner-xmms desklet never worked for me either until I installed the new core version. I've no idea why though. But it's working great for me

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ksskruthic · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

ServerMonk,
I am using Core package 0.31.1.. I have tried in 2 wasy.. drag and drop the tarball and also emerged as root.. but no Luck.. thanx anyway,

Got any other ideas?
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ksskruthic · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

Hi ServerMonk,

Atlast CornerXMMS is working

. I removed previous package, restared Gentoo and EMERGEed it again. This is the first time gDesklets work on my laptop and it looks Great.. but Goodweather isnt working yet...
Well i have things to clarify..
(1) I see that XMMS need to be opened (displayed) while playing inorder for CornerXmms to work/control.... isnt there anyway to hide xmms so that i only use CornerXMMS to control actual XMMS Player..? ( i mean use CornerXMMS as the actual XMMS??)

(2)The skin and Buttons on the CornerXMMS display is pale as in 'no color'.. can we change the skin or button's color...?? (bcos the right-click says "This display is not configurable")

(3)What abt GoodWeather?

Kindly clarify me..
Thanks a lot

-SK
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Obz · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 274

The goodweather desklet hasn't been updated for more than 10 months now - which puts it way behind gDesklets-0.3x. There's a chance, although I haven't had a good look at it's code - that it's not compatible with 0.3x and won't work.

We'll need to have a better look at the code, but unfortunately there's nothing I can do to solve incompatibilities like that, sorry.

Thanks.

ksskruthic · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

Obz,
i know that we keep getting desklets with intuitive look and feel. I appreciate your work

Also what is more important is the information thats on the desktop... right !!! So I think i'll try the other Weather desklets and let u know...(bcos i live in Michigan and weather forecast is important to me

)

Hey, BTW can we do anything with the CornerXMMS ike changing the skin or color of the desklet (or its buttons)

Anyway, thanks for the gDesklets,

Regards,
SK

rhill · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 6:02 am Post subject:

i think i did find in in the uncategorized section. and now i don't actually know where it came from. all i know is that i tried quite a few that were broken and was glad to find one that did work and as a bonus, actually knew what a Saskatchewan was.

asiobob · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 6:41 am Post subject:

Doesn't work

when I run "gdesklets shell" I get the following

Obz · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 274

Did you install all the packages in the overlay (gnome-python-2.6, pyorbit-2.0.1) ?

Also install pygtk-2.4 if you haven't allready.

Thanks

asiobob · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:03 am Post subject:

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Maximus2000 · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject: Nothing works?

Has anyone gotten anything to work? I have loaded this program and I can run gdesklets shell. However, when I install programs then go to run them nothing works. I always get some kind of error.
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servermonk · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 182 Location: MI

Everything has been running perfectly for me (outside of my desktop switching anomaly). What sort of errors are you getting?
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Maximus2000 · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:05 pm Post subject: My errors

This is the errors I am getting.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/gdesklets/factory/SensorFactory.py", line 82, in create_sensor
os.chdir(path)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/gdesklets/Sensors/StarterBar'

Invalid display file '/home/vieirar/.gdesklets/Displays/starterbar-desklet-0.31/starterbar.display'

The display file contains invalid data and could not be loaded.

Also

Could not find sensor 'IconButton'

A sensor could not be found. This usually means that it has not been installed.

Invalid display file '/home/vieirar/.gdesklets/Displays/GnomeBar-0.20/GnomeBar.display'

The display file contains invalid data and could not be loaded.
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GentooMasterBuilder · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Posts: 14

Obz the tarball is create dude but I would suggest removing things that are already in portage tree to prevent any conflicts of interest..

Sargon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 90

Any news about gdesklets >=0.3x coming to portage? Or a replacement for that matter? :p

Sargon

koubiak · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:13 pm Post subject:

I try it

And work fine on Gnome 2.6

You made a happy french today

Koubiak

ps if you want that I do some test on my desktop tell me

Maximus2000 · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:19 pm Post subject: Still nothing seems to work.

Well I still cannot get anything to work. I can get gdesklets -shell to come up and I can install sensors and stuff. But when I go to run them they don't work. This is what I get with StarterBar.....

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/gdesklets/factory/SensorFactory.py", line 83, in create_sensor
sensor = module.new_sensor(args)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'new_sensor'

Any help?
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Stormy Eyes · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:04 am Post subject:

Hi. I emerged everything in Obz' overlay, and then re-emerged pygtk 2.4.1, but "gdesklets start" fails. It throws a "This application has quit unexpectedly" popup, and dumps the following into my xterm:

siddhartha · n00b Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 32

I am having the same problem.
Gnome 2.8, ~x86 only system, used Obj's overlay, compiled fine, but does not run.

It throws a "This application has quit unexpectedly" popup.

Siddhartha