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| 3853ba05 | 1 | =============== |
| 797fb5e9 | 2 | indicator-chars |
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3 | =============== |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | :Author: Tobias Schlitt <toby@php.net> | |
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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 | ||
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10 | Create a file .indicator-chars in your home directory with lines of |
| 11 | characters to be selectable. | |
| 797fb5e9 | 12 | |
| 3853ba05 | 13 | ------- |
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14 | Fork Cyrille37 |
| 15 | ------- | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | :Author: Cyrille37 <cyrille37@gmail.com> | |
| 18 | ||
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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" | |
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30 | |
| 31 | ------- | |
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32 | Install |
| 33 | ------- | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | - Checkout source code | |
| 1b39c416 | 36 | |
| 3853ba05 | 37 | - Create ~/.indicator-chars |
| 1b39c416 | 38 | |
| 3853ba05 | 39 | - Each row corresponds to a set of chars |
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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 | ||
| 3853ba05 | 48 | - Make sure to use UTF-8 encoding |
| 1b39c416 | 49 | |
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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? | |
| 1b39c416 | 57 | |
| 3853ba05 | 58 | - Maybe there is a way to use multiple click buttons in menu items? |
| 1b39c416 | 59 | |
| 3853ba05 | 60 | - No standard Gtk way does not work. |