[dabo-users] Ubuntu 'Indicator' system tray integration for Dabo app

Hello,

Still a bit of a newbie to all the stuff I'm playing with here, so

forgive any obvious errors. I found this nice little code sample to

create an indicator applet in Python for Ubuntu's Indicator area

(basically equivalent to the system tray in Windows-land).

The code is simple enough and I've been able to play around with it and

make it do some fairly useful stuff, and was thinking this would be a

nice addition to my Dabo app (basically have the indicator connect to a

running instance of the app, or start it if it hadn't already), then

open specific Windows, and possibly display some relevant data from the

Dabo app.

Now the code sample uses PyGTK, not wxPython, and certainly not Dabo,

which is sort of to be expected. However, mixing the two just seems a

bit wrong. It seems-- in my limited understanding-- like it should be

possible, since I'm not using both toolkits in the same window, or

anything, just creating a GTK menu that activates wxWidgets windows. Is

this possible? Is this sane? Is there a better way to accomplish,

using only wxWidgets, and possibly maintaining the lovely

cross-platform-ness of Dabo?

I realize this is out of the depth of a newbie like myself, but

sometimes it works better to learn doing a difficult project you care

about than a simple project you don't, if you know what I mean.

Jamie

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