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 dir with lines of characters to be
-selectable.
+Create a file .indicator-chars in your home directory with lines of
+characters to be selectable.
+
+**Fork by Cyrille37**
+
+: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"
+
+**Fork by Adrian I Lam**
+
+:Author: Adrian I Lam <adrianiainlam@gmail.com>
+
+- Changes to Cyrille37's fork:
+
+ - port to Python 3 from Python 2
+
+ - use the svg custom icon
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Install
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- Checkout source code
+
- Create ~/.indicator-chars
+
- Each row corresponds to a set of chars
- - Spaces also count as 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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- 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.