5 :Author: Tobias Schlitt <toby@php.net>
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).
10 Create a file .indicator-chars in your home directory with lines of
11 characters to be selectable.
15 :Author: Cyrille37 <cyrille37@gmail.com>
17 - Some changes to make indicator-chars works on Ubuntu 12.04LTS with Unity 2D
19 - replace the custom icon with a theme icon name
21 - add a char copy into Clipboard(selection="CLIPBOARD")
23 - Other minors changes
25 - use env to find the Python engine
27 - add a configuration file example: "conf-example.indicator-chars"
29 **Fork by Adrian I Lam**
31 :Author: Adrian I Lam <adrianiainlam@gmail.com>
33 - Changes to Cyrille37's fork:
35 - port to Python 3 from Python 2
37 - use the svg custom icon
43 - Checkout source code
45 - Create ~/.indicator-chars
47 - Each row corresponds to a set of chars
49 - Optional submenu title prefix: "[title]" (trailing spaces stripped)
51 - Optional descriptions after chars: "(description)" (leading &
52 trailing spaces stripped)
54 - Spaces (apart from above) also count as chars
56 - Make sure to use UTF-8 encoding
58 - Put indicator-chars.py into auto start
64 - If anyone could design a nice, unity style indicator icon?
66 - Maybe there is a way to use multiple click buttons in menu items?
68 - No standard Gtk way does not work.