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indicator-chars
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:Author: Tobias Schlitt <toby@php.net>

App indicator to provide a menu with (potentially funny UTF-8) characters for
simple copying them to clipboard (similar to original characters applet).

Create a file .indicator-chars in your home directory with lines of
characters to be selectable.

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Fork Cyrille37
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:Author: Cyrille37 <cyrille37@gmail.com>

- Some changes to make indicator-chars works on Ubuntu 12.04LTS with Unity 2D

  - replace the custom icon with a theme icon name

  - add a char copy into Clipboard(selection="CLIPBOARD")

- Other minors changes

  - use env to find the Python engine

  - add a configuration file example: "conf-example.indicator-chars"

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Install
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- Checkout source code

- Create ~/.indicator-chars

  - Each row corresponds to a set of chars

  - Optional submenu title prefix: "[title]" (trailing spaces stripped)

  - Optional descriptions after chars: "(description)" (leading &
    trailing spaces stripped)

  - Spaces (apart from above) also count as chars

  - Make sure to use UTF-8 encoding

- Put indicator-chars.py into auto start

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Open issues
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- If anyone could design a nice, unity style indicator icon?

- Maybe there is a way to use multiple click buttons in menu items?

  - No standard Gtk way does not work.
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	2	indicator-chars
	3	===============
	4
	5	:Author: Tobias Schlitt <toby@php.net>
	6
	7	App indicator to provide a menu with (potentially funny UTF-8) characters for
	8	simple copying them to clipboard (similar to original characters applet).
	9
	10	Create a file .indicator-chars in your home directory with lines of
	11	characters to be selectable.
	12
	13	-------
	14	Fork Cyrille37
	15	-------
	16
	17	:Author: Cyrille37 <cyrille37@gmail.com>
	18
	19	- Some changes to make indicator-chars works on Ubuntu 12.04LTS with Unity 2D
	20
	21	- replace the custom icon with a theme icon name
	22
	23	- add a char copy into Clipboard(selection="CLIPBOARD")
	24
	25	- Other minors changes
	26
	27	- use env to find the Python engine
	28
	29	- add a configuration file example: "conf-example.indicator-chars"
	30
	31	-------
	32	Install
	33	-------
	34
	35	- Checkout source code
	36
	37	- Create ~/.indicator-chars
	38
	39	- Each row corresponds to a set of chars
	40
	41	- Optional submenu title prefix: "[title]" (trailing spaces stripped)
	42
	43	- Optional descriptions after chars: "(description)" (leading &
	44	trailing spaces stripped)
	45
	46	- Spaces (apart from above) also count as chars
	47
	48	- Make sure to use UTF-8 encoding
	49
	50	- Put indicator-chars.py into auto start
	51
	52	-----------
	53	Open issues
	54	-----------
	55
	56	- If anyone could design a nice, unity style indicator icon?
	57
	58	- Maybe there is a way to use multiple click buttons in menu items?
	59
	60	- No standard Gtk way does not work.