Multirow notification area

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This is the patch for a gnome-panel that makes a notification area to be not only one row high. If you'd expect the tray to be much smaller and more compact on wide panels than it is, then this patch is for you. I made it, because I'm fond of the Dockbar http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=97822 and DockbarX http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/DockbarX?content=101604, and since they require the panel to be at least 32 px high what makes a one-row tray look ugly.

Bugs
There are few of them at the moment. First, an icon for banshee media player won't show up with this tray, despite it reacts on clicks and takes a space in a row. If you rely on this player you'd better hold off with this patch.

Next, if you move the tray from a bigger panel to a smaller one, it won't change it's layout. So don't move it for some time till I get it fixed :)

To apply this patch
you need a source package for gnome-panel 2.26.2. You can take it from here http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-panel/2.26/

To build the panel you'll need some prerequisites and developer packages of this libraries:

ORBit-2.0
gdk-pixbuf-2.0
pango
gtk+-2.0
glib-2.0
gio-2.0
gio-unix-2.0
libgnome-2.0
libgnomeui-2.0
libbonoboui-2.0
gnome-desktop-2.0
libglade-2.0
gconf-2.0
libgnome-menu
dbus-glib-1

Note: some of them depend on each other, so it might be unnecessary to install every package.

Ubuntu users
can install it with apt-get source like this (thanks to hairypalms19):
sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-panel
apt-get source gnome-panel
cd gnome-panel-2.26.0

copy the downloaded patch file into the current folder making sure to remove the numbers appended to the front or adjust the next command to include the numbers.

zcat na-tray-multirow-2.26.2.patch.gz | patch -p1
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b

or

use a built deb-package on your own risk (no warranty!):

http://rapidshare.com/files/244099751/gnome-panel.tar.gz.html

Extract, configure, copy the patch to the extracted folder, apply it and make/install:

tar xvzf gnome-panel-2.26.2.tar.gz
cd gnome-panel-2.26.2
zcat na-tray-multirow-2.26.2.patch.gz | patch -p1
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install


If everything looks fine, remove the tray from the panel and re-add it again. It should fit to other minor versions of the same release, but I'm not sure.

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wast2006

8 years ago

as in Ubuntu Natty, see here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10842807#post10842807

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chriskin

10 years ago

how can i uninstall this to return to the regular one?
i had many problems with it , and i'm not actually using the multirow at the moment either

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lester2

10 years ago

uninstallation is pretty easy: just reinstall a package gnome-panel from your repository, it should replace the modified files. then remove the tray and re-add it.

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chriskin

10 years ago

then the bug i experience has nothing to do with your patch, thanks :)


by the way
are there any plans to get multirow for 2.28 or 29?

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lester2

10 years ago

I'm afraid it's not needed, since ubuntu developers already develop new application icons or something.

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Janhaj

10 years ago

Hello..
Is possible to set size of icons? For example all icons in systray has heigth 24px (in one row). If yes, how?
PS: Sorry for my english..
Thanks

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lester2

10 years ago

I'm afraid this patch is not working anymore. I have no time to port it to a new version of gnome-panel, and therefore it's not applicable now. More, it is planed to drop gnome tray completely in the favour of a new application menus.

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sigahotcore

10 years ago

Are there any plans for making .deb for Karmic Ubuntu ?

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nyenty

10 years ago

1) Is there a new version or a package built for the new release of gnome ?

Can you add a preference menu with the size of the icons, the number of rows, etc... Or does this feature should need a rewrite of the systray library ?

Sorry for my english and my lack of knowledge in programming.

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yabayaba

10 years ago

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=120854

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macaroo412

10 years ago

Im sort of a newbie here, but when i click download, i get webpage with a script with a bunch of codes...what am I supposed to do with that? I was also going to use the rapidshare link, but its down because it has been download 10 times already.

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lester2

10 years ago

It is a patch you should save with a "Save as..." option. Please, read instructions carefully how to apply this patch.

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jardasmid

10 years ago

That banshee bug is not problem of your patch, it is problem in banshee. See bug report with (not accepted yet) solution: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/process_bug.cgi

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jardasmid

10 years ago

Sorry, bad link: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590771

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lester2

10 years ago

It seems that some versions of the gtk have GtkTable broken. I see no problems on 2.14 I do on 2.16. It's so weird.

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hairypalms19

10 years ago

it also has the same problem with GTK from git and the 2.17.2 release packaged in ubuntu karmic alpha.

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KEIII

10 years ago

After apply this patch i see that:

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1294/screenshotsdi.png

I try install from deb package and patch svn.

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hananias

10 years ago

I extracted the 2.26.2 file, copy the patch tar file in the gnome-panel-2.26 folder...then configure...when I try to `make` gives this error
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
What did I do wrong??
Maybe a step by step for a noob :(

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hananias

10 years ago

Well I think this has something to do with that...I just notice this error!!
I can`t find some of these requirements in synaptic...

"checking for PANEL... configure: error: Package requirements (ORBit-2.0 >= 2.4.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.7.1 pango >= 1.15.4 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.15.1 glib-2.0 >= 2.18.0 gio-2.0 >= 2.18.0 gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.18.0 libgnome-2.0 >= 2.13.0 libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.5.4 libbonoboui-2.0 >= 2.1.1 gnome-desktop-2.0 >= 2.11.1 libglade-2.0 >= 2.5.0 gconf-2.0 >= 2.6.1 libgnome-menu >= 2.11.1 dbus-glib-1 >= 0.60) were not met:

No package 'ORBit-2.0' found
No package 'gdk-pixbuf-2.0' found
No package 'pango' found
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
No package 'glib-2.0' found
No package 'gio-2.0' found
No package 'gio-unix-2.0' found
No package 'libgnome-2.0' found
No package 'libgnomeui-2.0' found
No package 'libbonoboui-2.0' found
No package 'gnome-desktop-2.0' found
No package 'libglade-2.0' found
No package 'gconf-2.0' found
No package 'libgnome-menu' found
No package 'dbus-glib-1' found"

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lester2

10 years ago

yeah, that's what I was talking about. Do an apt-get install libpanel-applet2-dev, this should help

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hairypalms19

10 years ago

just to give people a heads up ill upload the debs for ubuntu 9.04 to rapidshare, no warranty, only 32 bit, use at your own risk etc

http://rapidshare.com/files/244099751/gnome-panel.tar.gz.html

built like this

sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-panel
apt-get source gnome-panel
cd gnome-panel-2.26.0

copy the downloaded patch file into the current folder making sure to remove the numbers appended to the front or adjust the next command to include the numbers.

zcat na-tray-multirow-2.26.2.patch.gz | patch -p1

then dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b in the current will sort it out for you in ubuntu/debian/knoppix etc

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lester2

10 years ago

Thanks, I'll update the post with your instructions!

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lester2

10 years ago

you forgot ./configure --prefix=/usr

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lester2

10 years ago

oh sorry, didn't notice you said configure. Your configuration ended with an error, you need to look what libraries are missing and install them with apt or yum.

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hairypalms19

10 years ago

seriously, love this, i was trying to get something similar myself, (tho not multirow) when i saw
http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs30/f/2008/046/d/a/Tray_example_by_hbons.png
this does just that. improves the look of the tray so much, even for single row :)

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