Playing around with Python bindings for GNOME
Posted by Sayamindu 2 years, 2 months ago
Last evening, I was pretty bored, and decided to teach myself PyGTK and the other related Python bindings for GNOME. My Python skills are not very good (the only things I have done earlier are a few ugly and hacky scripts to find out translation inconsistencies in a given set of PO files and a really weird sounding Bangla enabling frontent for Dhvani). So after around two hours of struggling and a lot of head scratching, I came up with a Python based plugin for Gedit which shows some (not very interesting) information about the currently opened file. Here’s a screenshot:
You can download the plugin (usual alpha software related warnings apply) from my here. To install, perform the following steps:
$ mkdir -p ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins
$ cd ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins
$ tar xzvf <wherever you have downloaded the tarball>
