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Ubuntu system tray / menu

Posted: September 28th, 2012, 7:12 am
by chadw
Hello,

on MacOS X, SABnzbd comes with a nice menu which shows the current download speed.

Is there something similar for Linux / Unity desktop ?

Re: Ubuntu system tray / menu

Posted: September 28th, 2012, 9:14 am
by shypike
Windows and OSX have a single UI, with an API that's stable over time.
There's no simple API to make something similar for Linux.

Re: Ubuntu system tray / menu

Posted: October 2nd, 2012, 8:12 pm
by bizz
shypike wrote:Windows and OSX have a single UI, with an API that's stable over time.
There's no simple API to make something similar for Linux.
Ubuntu has appindicators:
http://unity.ubuntu.com/projects/appindicators/

And it's quite simple since even I managed to create an indicator and it was my first python script ever ;D . If I could get some time I'll try to make something for sab.
chadw wrote:Hello,

on MacOS X, SABnzbd comes with a nice menu which shows the current download speed.

Is there something similar for Linux / Unity desktop ?
Currently I use this chrome extension instead of tray:
SABconnect++
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... jfacbkkbod

Re: Ubuntu system tray / menu

Posted: October 3rd, 2012, 2:52 am
by shypike
Interesting, but still limited to Ubuntu desktop users only.
Can you PM your example?