Cool, I'll look at the System Indicator if I can find anything. I am not familiar with Vala nor C (and I never felt comfortable with any of the two). I can really only help with Python at the moment.
For now, I am just working on the applet as a stand alone application and thought about worrying about desktop integration later? Is the design team the following: http://elementaryos.org/teams/team_ux ? My current project consists in re-producing the Synapse-style launcher with the filtering functionalities of the original Synapse, adding other features, such as "activate window", "note to self", calculator, converter, google search, google-drive, wikipedia etc. Eventually I would like the applet to listen and read stuff as well. Basically I want everything to be 3 key strokes away (not satisfied with the current Synapse-indicator). Another idea I would really like to see happening is a unified inbox notifier where (summaries of) messages from zillion mails and social media accounts could be gathered. B. On 7 October 2013 15:29, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <ser...@elementaryos.org > wrote: > Slingshot is not an actual indicator, it's just pretending. > > Ubuntu have intentionally limited application indicators to menus only to > force some degree of consistency on them. In time it has backfired and now > Canonical have come up with a library that provides hacks to get arbitrary > widgets into their intentionally constrained menus. > > The better idea would be to write a system indicator as opposed to > application indicator. You'd be able to use any GTK widget there. I'm not > sure what kind of embedding is used there, I haven't seen any docs on them, > but I suspect you'll need Vala or C for that, and we strongly prefer Vala. > > However, it might be better to check your vision with the design team > first. We're moving away from non-system-wide indicators. Also, we need > some system indicators customized ( > http://elementaryos.deviantart.com/gallery/37412343), getting that done > would be stellar. > > -- > Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff >
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