[pygtk] Need help trying to be a good GNOME application...

[Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro]

Qua, 2004-11-17 às 09:33 -0700, Don Allingham escreveu:
> Due to the demands of working for a startup company, I've been away from 
> this list for quite a while. I've been trying to get caught up on the 
> work needed for the GRAMPS project, and I could use some help on being a 
> good GNOME application using pygtk/gnome-python.
> 
> Because GRAMPS is a genealogy program, it is used not only at your 
> typical hacker, but also by your Aunt Martha. To make things as easy for 
> the Linux newbie as possible, we want to act the way a GNOME program is 
> supposed to act. In the process, we've encountered a few problems that 
> we hope someone could help us with.
> 
> 1) It looks like the "Recent Documents" option discussed by Alex Roitman
>     is not something available for us at this time. This is somewhat
>     disappointing, since while our users are expecting this to work,
>     GNOME does not give us a method of supporting this, which is odd
>     since the GNOME project made a big splash about this at the 2.6
>     release. Are there any python implementations of handling this
>     outside of wrapping libegg ourselves?

  I can't promising anything right now, but we're creating a new module,
gnome-python-extras, which will likely receive some libegg stuff,
including recent files.

> 
> 2) It seems that the GnomeApp interface is being replaced by
>     GtkUIManger. However, glade does not support this. I've looked at the
>     alternate builder (can't remember its name off the top of my head),
>     but it did not seem to support GNOME widgets, such as the Canvas.
>     Any suggestions on what to do here?
> 
> 3) What is the appropriate way to find the icon associated with a MIME
>     type? gnome-vfs can get us the root name (e.g. i-directory), but not
>     the full path. There is a nice routine to return the full path to
>     the icon of an application, but not a mime-type. Right now, we a have
>     python implementation that tries to convert a mime-type to a
>     filename by trying to querying GCONF for the current theme, trying to
>     convert that to a path, and trying to convert the mime type to a
>     file name. Is there an easier way?

  Maybe this will help?

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157569

> 
> TIA,
> 
> Don
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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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