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

[Don Allingham]

Gustavo,

Thanks for the information. Any recommendations on what to do about 
GtkUIManager?

Don

Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> 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,