Ruby-libappindicator¶ ↑

Summary¶ ↑

Ruby bindings for libappindicator used by Ubuntu’s Application Indicators released under the LGPLv3 license

This is my first C extension and my first gem so please consider this as beta version. It works on my computer, but I can’t guarantee it will on yours. Any help will of course be appreciated, especially for proper gem packaging.

Versioning¶ ↑

This gem uses the same version numbering than libappindicator itself for major and minor, micro is used for bugfixes and gem enhancements. Right now libappindicator-0.1 is available which means it will be supported by ruby-libappindicator-0.1.x .

Minimal “hello world”¶ ↑

require "rubygems"
require "ruby-libappindicator"

ai = AppIndicator::AppIndicator.new("test", "indicator-messages", AppIndicator::Category::APPLICATION_STATUS);

ai.set_menu(Gtk::Menu.new)
ai.set_status(AppIndicator::Status::ACTIVE)

Gtk.main

The two necessary steps to make your application indicator visible are:

• setting a menu (even empty, but you need one)

• setting the status as active or requiring attention

Installation¶ ↑

In order to build ruby-libappindicator you need to have the GTK+ and libappindicator development headers

$ sudo apt-get install libgtk-directfb-2.0-dev libappindicator-dev
$ gem install ruby-libappindicator

TODO¶ ↑

• Write/generate some documentation