| 1 | =============== |
| 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. |