[2008.09][FSO] Programming interface to wifi Icon

[Alastair Johnson]

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

The .desktop file will put an icon in the application launcher. I think 
the parent is talking about the wifi icon in the illume bar at the top 
of the screen which is somewhat different.