Makes all the basic boilerplate for applets that are compatible with both 2.x and 3.x Gnome and MATE panels.
Usage: panel-applet-generator.py [options]
- Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit -n NAME, --name=NAME Applet name (required) -d DESCRIPTION, --description=DESCRIPTION Description (required) -i ICON, --icon=ICON Icon (in /usr/share/icons, without the full path) -c CATEGORY, --category=CATEGORY Category of the applet (see http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html for full list) --maintainer=MAINTAINER Maintainer name -e EMAIL, --email=EMAIL Maintainer email -f FOLDER, --folder=FOLDER Destination folder (default: same as the name)
You'll need at least a name and description, but filling in the rest is a good idea
This script depends on the Genshi toolkit for the template generation You can install it by typing: $ sudo apt-get install python-genshi