[2008.09][FSO] Programming interface to wifi Icon

Wed Oct 1 10:49:16 CEST 2008

Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Wednesday, October 01, 2008 a las 08:30:00AM +0100, Arigead escribió:
>>>> Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>>>> El día Tuesday, September 30, 2008 a las 02:38:51PM +0100, Arigead escribió:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>> Want to play with the wifi icon on the FR either in [2008.09] or 
>>>> [FSO] Perhaps [FSO] makes more sense in the long run.
>>>>>>>> Anyhow can I from a C Program set the icon? And can I have a call back 
>>>> so that Icon being pressed issues a DBUS message?
>>>>>>>>>>> If you create a file like this:
>>>>>> root at om-gta02:/usr/share/applications# cat Wifi-up.desktop 
>>> [Desktop Entry]
>>> Encoding=UTF-8
>>> Name=Wifi-up
>>> Comment=Bring Wifi up with ifup eth0
>>> Exec=xterm -e "ifdown eth0 ; iwconfig eth0 txpower auto channel 1 ; killall wpa_supplicant ; killall udhcp ; ifup eth0 ; sleep 20"
>>> Icon=wifi
>>> Terminal=false
>>> Type=Application
>>> Categories=Application;Utilities;
>>> SingleInstance=true
>>> StartupNotify=true
>>>>>> the icon will appear and of course you have an action Exec=...
>>>>>> 	matthias
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for that Matthias but you misunderstand me. At present the wifi 
>> icon, as far as I know, is plain white. I'd like to have three different 
>> Icons for the wifi one Red, one Orange/Amber and one Green (Traffic 
>> Lights). I'd like to create a daemon in C which every so often did a wee 
>> wifi scan to see what networks are out there. If no know wifi SSIDs are 
>> available then the icon is red.
>>> 	...
>> I think I understood you already in your first post very well; you can
> change the color or the image of a given icon just be rewriting (from C
> or shell) the corresponding desktop file and let it point to another
> icon with
>> Icon=wifiRed
>> or 
>> Icon=wifiAmber
>> ... ofc the files 'wifiAmber.png' must exist in /usr/share/pixmaps
>> HIH
>> 	matthias
>>>Ah! Sorry, now I see. Thanks million for that.
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