Re: Capplets

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 03:38:02PM +0200, Daniel Persson was heard to say:
> Hi all,
> 
> if there is some programmer out there with to little to do, i would like to
> come up with some capplet suggestions:
> (that is, capplets that i personally would like to see in the
> control-center).
> 
> Esound manager capplet
> Simple procinfo capplets (like cpuinfo,meminfo  etc) 
> Maybe a simple capplet for configuring /ect/inetd.conf (simple checkboxes
> and a button for "killall -HUP inted.conf" or something)
> A capplet for setting default language etc (for them that dosent run GDM -
> it simpler for a new user to set this graphical)
> A capplet for gdm (configure, drag'n drop logos etc ;)
> A capplet that will help people set system time/date and maybe use rdate  ?
> 
> 
> Some of these may be plain stupid and waaaaay off - if so, please ignore
> them :)
> And yes, i now that it's lame to put suggestions out like this without
> providing a single line of code ....
> But by letting my stupid ideas out like this maybe someone could get a good
> idea and make something nice out of it ;)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Daniel Persson

  I have a pair of related questions--

  (a) Is there documentation on creating capplets on the Gnome pages? (this
     is just 'cause I'm too lazy to check..my real question is: )
  (b) Is it possible currently to write control-center capplets in Python?
     I have a Python program which can load user interface modules and I would
     like to allow it to load a "gnomecc" module.  What would I have to
     do to accomplish this? (aside from figuring out how to render dialogs
     as control-center widgets :-) )

   Daniel

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