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Progress bar for python/ quickly web browser

i have been doing this web browser for roughly a day now, i have got the main look of the browser set up how i want it. i have now decided to add a little progress bar at the bottom of the main ...
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Detecting use of ubuntu unity global menu

I'm porting a commercial app to Linux, it is to run on several distros. When run on Ubuntu, the GtkMenuBar is removed from the app's window and placed on the main global menu bar. That's fine ... but ...
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Create a Gtk Window insensitive to Show Desktop and Won't show in Launcher

I want to make a Gtk.Window which is pinned to the Desktop and acts like a desktop widget. I've found that I can do this by setting self.set_type_hint(Gdk.WindowTypeHint.DESKTOP) which keeps it below ...
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Dynamically change the application icon

The icon used for the app is in the .desktop file but is it possible to change this dynamically? You can change the count but not the icon. Is there an API for doing this like OS X?
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Unity WebApps don't work perfectly [closed]

I want to develop a webapp, but all I am able to do is just an icon and a redirect link. Can someone help me, the notification, messaging menu don't work, so do the HUD actions. Only an icon and ...
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Application Indicator plugin for Visual Studio 2010 Express [closed]

I'd like to know if there is a [Unity] AppIndicator plugin for VS 2010 Express (C#) At the moment, I have to use Whitelist ["all"] for my icons to show up, and would love to add 'native' functionality ...
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Launchbar + panel overlaps when showing a dialog box in fullscreen

I'm developing a program for 12.04 that will run on full-screen, so I would like to have full control of what appears on the screen. However, when I show another window (possibly a dialog/message ...
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Are there Human Interface Design Guidelines for Unity Development?

I was surfing developer.ubuntu.com, searching for Unity-Human-Interface-Design-Guidelines or a Unity-HIG, but I didn't find anything. I've seen design.ubuntu.com, but that's not what I'm talking ...
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Unity lens to search for tags

I want to develop a dash lens to search files by tags (the ones that are set through Nautilus). I know on the one hand this program, that does the search: ...
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Is there any documentation for Nux?

I'm considering writing somethings that could benefit from running like Unity. I know Unity uses the Nux toolkit for drawing itself but I can't find any documentation about it. Is there a helpful ...
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Where are the default Unity lenses stored?

I want to create a home build lens for the 12.04 dash and liked to use one of the default lenses as example. I'm thus for looking where I can find the files of these lenses.
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Needing guidance on making a simple daemon for unity notifications in a python app

I am making an app using pygtk, glade, and quickly and want to make a daemon that runs in the background to provide unity notifications for alarms and events. I would like to find a way to not require ...
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Unity Launcher integration and quickly run… fail

I'm trying to use the uniy launcher with progress bar.. but it doesn't work.. I just followed the first example on ...
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How do I make the launcher progress bar work with my application?

Background Research I am attempting to update the progress bar within the Unity launcher for a simple python/Gtk application created using Quickly called test; however, following the instructions in ...
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How do I use the Unity methods in Quickly's python code?

How do I use the Unity methods in Quickly's python code. All I want is an example of a few methods, like quicklists, notifications, indicators, etc.
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How to reference to .desktop file? (installed in /opt) in a dynamic quicklist?

I'm trying to create a dynamic quicklist for an application I'm developing in quickly. This is the line of code I use to try and connect to the .desktop file: self.launcher = ...
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How to change the icon for Qt application?

How can I change application icon (launcher icon) for my Qt-application? Now it looks like a question mark and I want to change it.
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unity components debugging

Following up on my question here, I would like to ask about best-practices for debugging additions to the unity components. Integrating apps into unity requires many components: service files, ...
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Quickly lens tutorial not working [closed]

I have been following the exact steps of this wikipedia lens tutorial with the result that the quickly run step gives the following warnings and the search does not display any results: WARN ...
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How to add checkbox or radio buttons to a Unity quicklist?

I have been searching how to make that happen but i can't find it anywhere. I even guessed how to enable/disable the quicklist item, so as how to add function invoked after the item is clicked, but ...
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Unity lens not included in global search

I'm using the quickly unity lens template here http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/04/how-to-create-a-wikipedia-unity-lens-for-ubuntu/ It works quite all right, but even though i have set ...
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How to let an icon in the launcher wiggle?

Trying to let my python application inform the user by wiggling or shaking its icon in the launcher, I found: Wiggling seems to be the "urgent animation": How can I change the wiggle time of ...
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How to add Quicklists to GTK2 application?

We want to add Quicklists to our app Nitro. However Nitro uses GTK2 as it uses the pywebkitgtk library. As far as I'm aware, we can't use Quicklists because it requires PyGI which requires GTK3 and ...
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Only show a menu under Unity

We want our app Nitro to be more native on Ubuntu. We're going to do this by adding Unity quicklist support & appmenu support. Is it possible for the app to only utilize the app menu? If the user ...
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Focusing a specific application instance by code?

I'm writing an application using Python and GTK3. This application will open instances of other applications, such as GEdit. Now, I'd also want my application to be able to focus each of those ...
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How do I make my java app compatible with the unity global menu?

I like to develop in Java but also want compatibility with the global menu? Is there a way? Please help.
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How to add support for the global menu to a python non-gtk, non-qt app?

I'm looking for good documentation (an example, tutorial, or guide) on how to add global menu support to a non-gtk, non-qt application. (In gtk it works 'magically' for the main menu...). The ...
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Creating a Unity Lens: The name `Activation' does not exist in the context of `Unity'

I'm trying to create a Lens for Unity in 11.10 using vala. This is my daemon.vala: using Dee; using Gee; namespace PidginLens { public class Daemon : GLib.Object, Unity.Activation { ...
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What is the API for new Lens features in the Ubuntu TV alpha?

As of the Ubuntu 12.04 alpha, lenses are simply lists of results pushed onto a DBus domain like net.launchpad.Lens.MyLens. This makes lenses and scopes more or less equivalent to search engines. ...
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What's the preferred way to distribute self written Unity Lenses?

With gnome-shell there is https://extensions.gnome.org where a developer could easily submit and distribute an self written gnome-shell extension. What's the preferred way with a self written Unity ...
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Can't get activate_uri signal working when making a lens

I'm trying to develop a lens for unity in ubuntu 11.10 and I can not get activate_uri signal working. This is an extract of my code: def _on_activate_uri (self, scop, uri): print "----> " + ...
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Is it possible to programmatically call, access, or get results from the Unity Dash?

Background After eyeing Unity's notification APIs for the past few releases, I've developed an itch to write a feed reader that syndicates new arrivals in the Messaging Menu... ... and provides ...
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What icon does Unity use for an application?

I have a .deb package that installs application icons under the following locations: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/ ...
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How do I tell when a window demands attention?

Unfortunately, it appears Unity's subtle persistent urgency indicator has disappeared in Oneiric - so I'm now considering writing a replacement as panel/indicator applet. However, I have no idea how ...
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How to create a new dash panel for my program?

I am developing a new AI chatbot assistant that i want to embed in the dash menu panel in unity. where do i go into the .* files to edit / create this? also can i code menus in python at all? ...
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Unity Launcher API for C++

I am trying to develop some program in QT with QT SDK. Yesterday I was reading about Unity Launcher API on official ubuntu website. But there is example only for Vala and python. Is possible to use ...
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Developing Unity compliant apps in Python - where to start?

I'm an experienced programmer who is interested in developing apps for Linux, specifically GTK, and more specifically apps that are Unity compliant. Aside from the obvious step of learning Python, ...
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How can I change labels created with build_menu_from_desktop() in pythons appindicator module?

Suppose I created an indicator with appindicator for python. Suppose I used the line build_menu_from_desktop("/my/path/myfile.desktop", "Unity") for that. How would I go about changing the created ...
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How do I start developing a lens for Unity?

I would like to know how to create one of those lenses for unity. I know how to program. but I don't know where to start. Are there certain libraries I should use or docs that I should read? Are there ...
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Is there any tutorial for programming Unity indicators?

I'm interested in Unity indicators, and wonder if there is any tutorial about how to program them. I can use the sources of the existing ones as last resort, but I'd prefer a more friendly approach ...
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Would a Unity lens written for Unity 3D also work in Unity 2D?

I am thinking of writing a few lens features to link Unity into some business web applications, do I have to target both Unity variants separately or can I do one and assume the other will just work?
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Adding icon to the system tray (notification area) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to program a status icon that will display in Ubuntu 11.04 as well as in other distributions? Hello, I have a small audio recording application programmed with ...