Make blueman-adapters XFCE Pluggable

[GreenLunar]

Original post: namili/blueman#1

In Bug 9674 – Ignore NoDisplay=true there is an example for adding a blueman-adapters.desktop entry to xfce4-settings-manager.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Bluetooth Adapters
Comment=Set Bluetooth Adapter Properties
Exec=blueman-adapters
Icon=blueman-device
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=X-XFCE;Settings;DesktopSettings;X-XFCE-SettingsDialog;X-XFCE-HardwareSettings;
StartupNotify=true
Encoding=UTF-8
NoDisplay=false
X-XfceSettingsName=Bluetooth
X-XfcePluggable=true

Unfortunately, X-XfcePluggable=true does not work for blueman-adapters dialog so it is opened in a separate window.

[cschramm]

What does the X-XfcePluggable feature require?

[GreenLunar]

I do not know. There seem to be no entry about it at Xfce Wiki.
http://seeks.fr/search?q=site%3Axfce.org%20XfcePluggable
http://seeks.fr/search?q=X-XfcePluggable

I guess commit 95fdccc (written in C) would be of help.

Maybe relevant http://xfce.org/download/changelogs/4.10pre1

Re-add support for pluggable dialogs and enable them always.
Panel: Add support for pluggable dialogs.

We may try to ask the contributors for the following files:
xfce4-accessibility-settings.desktop.in
xfce-ui-settings.desktop.in
xfce-display-settings.desktop.in
xfce-keyboard-settings.desktop.in
xfce-mouse-settings.desktop.in

[GreenLunar]

@nschermer @Jannis @kelnos @stephanarts

What does the X-XfcePluggable feature require?

[rworkman]

If it's possible to make a settings dialog pluggable using pygtk, I suspect it's far from trivial, but I've asked in #xfce-devel to see if anyone there knows for sure. In the meantime, the branch I just pushed (referenced above) adds the .desktop file without the pluggable setting, as I think it would be good to have either way.

[rworkman]

<+ochosi> rworkman: anyway, this is what you mostly have to do (create a gtkplug and "plug it in"): http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/tree/settings/xfpm-settings.c#n2192
obviously, in the builder/glade file, the plug-child widget has to contain all that you want to be shown in the plug

This looks like it should be helpful, but I'm not competent enough, it seems: http://python.developpez.com/cours/pygtktutorial/php/pygtken/sec-PlugsAndSockets.php

[GreenLunar]

@rworkman why do you think that this desktop file is to be optional?

You might also want to write a commit for a similar settings dialog of MATÉ desktop environment, I think it is called mate-control-center.

[rworkman]

I tend to make things like this optional, as it's quite likely that someone will be running e.g. MATE and won't care for the xfce file to even be installed. I know and you know that it doesn't matter either way, but some people get really bent out of shape over perceived "bloat" being on their systems.

Re a similar option for MATE, I'd rather someone who uses MATE and can actually test it do that (same re KDE if there's a comparable thing there).

[GreenLunar]

Actually, to me, it does matter, indeed, when I get to have unnecessary files installed,. This desktop file goes into Settings category in standard (maybe, common) menu, so I do not think most users would consider this redundant, despite this dialog being, relatively, compact.

[rworkman]

I'm okay with it either way - if the consensus among the blueman project devs is that it should be installed no matter what, then that's cool. I do think that the thunar-sendto one should remain optional though.

[GreenLunar]

This looks like it should be helpful, but I'm not competent enough, it seems: http://python.developpez.com/cours/pygtktutorial/php/pygtken/sec-PlugsAndSockets.php

Thank you for this reference.
http://pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gtkplug.html
http://pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/sec-PlugsAndSockets.html

[infirit]

blueman does not use pygtk anymore and uses pygobject. However things should be fairly similar but there are differences.

[rworkman]

Well, either way, xfce is currently gtk2, so that's another hurdle - I'd be surprised if a gtk3 plug can be embedded in a gtk2 socket.

[GreenLunar]

Well, either way, xfce is currently gtk2, so that's another hurdle - I'd be surprised if a gtk3 plug can be embedded in a gtk2 socket.

A gtk3 plug can be embedded in a gtk2 socket. See images of xfdashboard (GTK+3).