[Perlpanel-devel] Re: PerlPanel Moosic applet

[Gavin Brown]

> Besides, as a PerlPanel user, I resent having to use root privileges to
> install a new applet.

The Freedesktop.org standards allow for users to have their own "share"
tree inside $HOME/.local - when PerlPanel looks for an icon, it checks
inside this directory as well. So a user-installed PerlPanel theme can
put its icons into $HOME/.local/icons, and the applet can go into
$HOME/.perlpanel/applets, and everything should work fine. There isn't a
mechanism for doing this, but I can imagine something like GNOME's theme
installation system working well enough. Applet developers release a
tarball that looks like this:

/ (the root of the tarball)
/applet.info
/applets
/applets/Moosic.pm
/share
/share/icons
/share/icons/hicolor
/share/icons/hicolor/48x48
/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps
/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/perlpanel-applet-Moosic.png
/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/perlpanel-applet-Moosic-volume-min.png

applet.info would contain a line that can be appended to
$HOME/.perlpanel/applet.registry.

Then PerlPanel would have a dialog that prompted the user for the
tarball, and unpacked it into the appropriate directories.

Gavin.

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