X-Git-Url: https://adrianiainlam.tk/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.rst;h=dd26a50ec97d95fec3a88ef139b5a4219f598fd4;hb=25b05e3a4b4dad382a0b96e0a140f62c6c136f63;hp=de8c8ca1a56d36e574e3a74cf783f51fd20c7539;hpb=0679330a1472d861851aaa8ac5ca03ae3f463901;p=indicator-chars.git diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index de8c8ca..dd26a50 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -1,10 +1,68 @@ +=============== indicator-chars ---------------- +=============== + +:Author: Tobias Schlitt 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 + +- 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 + +- Changes to Cyrille37's fork: + + - port to Python 3 from Python 2 + + - use the svg custom icon + +------- +Install +------- + +- 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 + +----------- +Open issues +----------- + +- If anyone could design a nice, unity style indicator icon? + +- Maybe there is a way to use multiple click buttons in menu items? -Author: Tobias Schlitt + - No standard Gtk way does not work.