[SOLVED] Ubuntu System Panel (USP)

After the release of the SLED menu and seeing that it was so popular with Ubuntu users, I took it upon myself to do something of our own. So for the past few weeks I have been studying mockups for GNOME and trying to bring it alive and today, I offer it to you...

Bear in mind that this is alpha software and there are bugs, either because I didn't come across them before or because I cannot solve them myself. That being said this system panel offers (at least to me) a convenient place to do everything I need to do, with efficiency...

Ver 0.31 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:30:10 -0400

• 'Places' and 'Application' icon size configurable (size 1-4)
• USP returns to 'Favourites' after close if show_allapps_on start is not set
• 'All Application' sub-section is now highlighted
• Applet text and icon is now configurable
• Fixed 'Filter' bug
• Fixed Alt-F4 bug
• BASIC translation for 'All Applications' section (thanks vonpmg)

Other features are already in the pipeline...stay tuned

Notes: See 'currently working on' thread to know what is in the pipeline Add your wishlist to the 'What I would like to see' thread Add screenshots to 'Screenshots' thread

Features

• Supports drag and drop
• USP is pin-able to allow you to drag items from the original ubuntu menu
• Show only the pane, you want to see
• Filter applications/places
• Search computer
• 'All Applications' pane showing all applications as icons
• Configure frequently used items directly from USP
• Right click to edit labels directly in Applications/Places panes
• Fully configurable search, more-applications and system items
• Fast
• Supports 'Plugins' if developers are willing to write them

Notes

• Configuration can be done via gconf-editor in '/apps/usp'
• To pin USP, click on the small toggle button in the uppermost left of the panel. Pressed=pinned, unpressed=normal
• Depending on your theme, the colours may look off (not my fault!) Open gconf-editor and check 'Use custom colors' and enter the colour you would like to use. the default is a nice gray
• Change network_interface to your network interface such as eth0 or wlan0 etc.
• To use beagle instead of nautilus search change search_command to 'beagle-search SEARCH_STRING'
• To use the application browser that came with sled edit more_applications to show 'application-browser'
• Each system_command maps to the system buttons in the USP
• Translation will not be available until this app reaches production quality

Quick-Start 1.) Install .deb attached 2.) Right click on panel and add 'Ubuntu System Panel' located in Miscellaneous (next to SLED if you have it installed) 3.) Click on the applet (the USP will open) 4.) Click on the pin button (Uppermost left tiny button) 5.) Drag applications from your ubuntu menu onto the USP 6.) Drag places onto the places pane 7.) Right click on items to edit labels and their launcher 8.) If you dont like the colors, open gconf-editor and check 'use custom color (This requires a restart of the applet by removing and re-adding) 9.) Un select the pin button 10.) Select the panes you want to see by toggling the buttons on the left

And now for the screenshots

Here is the full USP [IMG]http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/254/uspiv2.jpg[/IMG]

Only the applications pane showing [IMG]http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/2932/applicationsvm6.jpg[/IMG]

User selected combination [IMG]http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/443/combinationni3.jpg[/IMG]

Here is the .deb. I take no responsibility if your dog elopes with your cat or your goldfish commits suicide by going for a walk.. I hope you like it, a lot of work went into it. Please comment and feel free to request features (not sure I will be able to fulfil them all but its worth a shot ;) )

Get it here

Excellent work chanders, job well done :)

I await the next addition to your arsenal of toys :p

This looks cool. Will try it right away :)

Great man! Cool and more professionalism!!!

Hmmm... schema??? no schema installs here so it makes the System Panel dead weight...

Sources?? ;)

It will not run. Can't be added to the panel...

run this in a terminal and post your results... This is my first panel applet so I guess hickups are in order ](*,)

usp run-in-window

darkmatter said: Hmmm... schema??? no schema installs here so it makes the System Panel dead weight...

Sources?? ;)

When it is run it creates the schema directory structure on the fly.... Open the deb with archive-manager. The source is in the /usr/bin file named usp ;)

chanders said: run this in a terminal and post your results... This is my first panel applet so I guess hickups are in order ](*,)

usp run-in-window

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1242, in ?
    menu_factory(app, None)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1233, in menu_factory
    MenuWin(applet, iid)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1116, in __init__
    self.mainwin = MainWindow()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 88, in __init__
    self.get_gconf_info()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1017, in get_gconf_info
    self.wTree.get_widget("label9").set_label(resolution+" px")
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'

This is great, thanks! Is there any way to use the same places as nautilus does?

augied said: This is great, thanks!

Is there any way to use the same places as nautilus does?

Did this install properly for you?

chanders said: Did this install properly for you?

Yes

lazyd2 said:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1242, in ? menu_factory(app, None) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1233, in menu_factory MenuWin(applet, iid) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1116, in __init__ self.mainwin = MainWindow() File "/usr/bin/usp", line 88, in __init__ self.get_gconf_info() File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1017, in get_gconf_info self.wTree.get_widget("label9").set_label(resolution+" px") TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'

Seems your gconf is different from mine.... standby for a fix

Hi, nice looking menu :D I'll try it this evening after work.

And, what I want to let you know is, that I'll put a few mockups this evening from the xorg configuration tool this evening on this page ;)

regards Dennis

New fix!

Open system monitor and make sure you dont have

python /usr/bin/usp ..... running

If you do, kill the process and _do not reload the applet_ when prompted.... Then install the newer deb (0.11).

Let me know if it works..

DeeZiD said: Hi, nice looking menu :D

I'll try it this evening after work.

And, what I want to let you know is, that I'll put a few mockups this evening from the xorg configuration tool this evening on this page ;)

regards Dennis

Excellent! Looking forward to it... I just saw a post about something similar... we will have to look at that too...

Wow, Impressive screeshots. Does this need to be done in edgy or can I try it out in dapper?

outdooricon said: Wow, Impressive screeshots. Does this need to be done in edgy or can I try it out in dapper?

Indulge yourself ;) Dapper or Edgy welcome!

OH NOES! You just trumped my slab...but due to the amount of (possible) bugs, and the fact that it looks a bit too complex for the average user, I think people won't be intimidated by Uslab as much as THIS complex thing.

Viper550 said: OH NOES! You just trumped my slab...can I have the source code so I can mod it further for the next version of Uslab?

LOL, you'll never give up, will you 8) The source is distributed in the .deb. Open with package manager and look in /usr/bin filename is usp

Have fun! :-D

Viper550 said: OH NOES! You just trumped my slab...but due to the amount of (possible) bugs, and the fact that it looks a bit too complex for the average user, I think people won't be intimidated by Uslab as much as THIS complex thing.

*Possible *bugs? Are you for real? You _[SIZE="4"]DEFINITELY[/SIZE]_ need to read my sig!

I can't get this working. I installed from the .deb (thanks for supporting PPC) and rebooted whent to add panel and moved it over to the panel and it did nothing. Good job from the looks of it though

Are you going to attach the .po file(s)? I'd love to translate this. :)

oops :-# double post

Note360 said: I can't get this working. I installed from the .deb (thanks for supporting PPC) and rebooted whent to add panel and moved it over to the panel and it did nothing. Good job from the looks of it though

run this in a terminal and post your results...

usp run-in-window

I will try to help...

@Squalor - it's way too early to do any translation but when I am ready I will pm you ;)

Here is what I got. Thanks for the fas service to.

/usr/bin/usp:483: GtkWarning: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a container of type GtkHBox, but the widget is already inside a container of type GtkHBox, the GTK+ FAQ at http://www.gtk.org/faq/ explains how to reparent a widget.
  HBox1.add(PlaceIcon)
Warning! - Icon for item not found!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1249, in ?
    menu_factory(app, None)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1240, in menu_factory
    MenuWin(applet, iid)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1123, in __init__
    self.mainwin = MainWindow()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 92, in __init__
    self.Todos()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 457, in Todos
    PlaceIcon = self.get_proper_icon(datalist[i][5:],icon_size)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 415, in get_proper_icon
    Image1 = gtk.image_new_from_icon_name(None, icon_size)
TypeError: image_new_from_icon_name() argument 1 must be string, not None

All in all its quite nice chanders... save for one smallish usability issue.

And that would be regarding the 'All Applications' 'menu'...

Having such small icons and no text is a bit of a hinderance... it is my suggestion to perhaps replace the current view with an embedded list... or better yet, a treeview... so by clicking on the All Applications.. it would then display a list of categories (Accessories, Games... blah blah) and clicking on each would extend the category, displaying the apps within. And it would have text!!!! :p

*Disclaimer*: The preceeding has been a random thought, and the author takes no resonsibility for any damage it may cause :mrgreen:

Note360 said: Here is what I got. Thanks for the fas service to.

/usr/bin/usp:483: GtkWarning: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a container of type GtkHBox, but the widget is already inside a container of type GtkHBox, the GTK+ FAQ at http://www.gtk.org/faq/ explains how to reparent a widget.
  HBox1.add(PlaceIcon)
Warning! - Icon for item not found!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1249, in ?
    menu_factory(app, None)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1240, in menu_factory
    MenuWin(applet, iid)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1123, in __init__
    self.mainwin = MainWindow()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 92, in __init__
    self.Todos()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 457, in Todos
    PlaceIcon = self.get_proper_icon(datalist[i][5:],icon_size)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 415, in get_proper_icon
    Image1 = gtk.image_new_from_icon_name(None, icon_size)
TypeError: image_new_from_icon_name() argument 1 must be string, not None

I know how to solve this. It's just I havent slept for 36hrs trying to get this ready so I am going to take a nap and when I wake up later it will be solved... have no fear ;)

darkmatter said: All in all its quite nice chanders... save for one smallish usability issue.

And that would be regarding the 'All Applications' 'menu'...

Having such small icons and no text is a bit of a hinderance... it is my suggestion to perhaps replace the current view with an embedded list... or better yet, a treeview... so by clicking on the All Applications.. it would then display a list of categories (Accessories, Games... blah blah) and clicking on each would extend the category, displaying the apps within. And it would have text!!!! :p

*Disclaimer*: The preceeding has been a random thought, and the author takes no resonsibility for any damage it may cause :mrgreen:

In the next release, (few hours) the user will have the option to see all the applications as a list, a-la SLED also, hopefully categorised...

That was just a last minute 'feature' ;)

Standby for a fix.... for the problem, before I sleep....

Chanders. We can wait. Get some sleep :)

Note360 said: I can't get this working. I installed from the .deb (thanks for supporting PPC) and rebooted whent to add panel and moved it over to the panel and it did nothing. Good job from the looks of it though

Note360 said: Here is what I got. Thanks for the fas service to.

/usr/bin/usp:483: GtkWarning: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a container of type GtkHBox, but the widget is already inside a container of type GtkHBox, the GTK+ FAQ at http://www.gtk.org/faq/ explains how to reparent a widget.
  HBox1.add(PlaceIcon)
Warning! - Icon for item not found!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1249, in ?
    menu_factory(app, None)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1240, in menu_factory
    MenuWin(applet, iid)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1123, in __init__
    self.mainwin = MainWindow()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 92, in __init__
    self.Todos()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 457, in Todos
    PlaceIcon = self.get_proper_icon(datalist[i][5:],icon_size)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 415, in get_proper_icon
    Image1 = gtk.image_new_from_icon_name(None, icon_size)
TypeError: image_new_from_icon_name() argument 1 must be string, not None

See, dissatified customers! And, let me rephrase what I said: USlab is easy enough, but this seems more like a Power-User version of USlab. If it were to be included ALONGSIDE USlab, that's fine with me!

Note360 said: Here is what I got. Thanks for the fas service to.

/usr/bin/usp:483: GtkWarning: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a container of type GtkHBox, but the widget is already inside a container of type GtkHBox, the GTK+ FAQ at http://www.gtk.org/faq/ explains how to reparent a widget.
  HBox1.add(PlaceIcon)
Warning! - Icon for item not found!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1249, in ?
    menu_factory(app, None)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1240, in menu_factory
    MenuWin(applet, iid)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1123, in __init__
    self.mainwin = MainWindow()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 92, in __init__
    self.Todos()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 457, in Todos
    PlaceIcon = self.get_proper_icon(datalist[i][5:],icon_size)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 415, in get_proper_icon
    Image1 = gtk.image_new_from_icon_name(None, icon_size)
TypeError: image_new_from_icon_name() argument 1 must be string, not None

Anyone with this error, try the new .deb (.12) and let me know if it works..

Install the deb (.12) and then logout and then log back in...

USP installed fine on my system.

The Control Center does nothing when I click on it though.

I'm running 1600x1200 screen res', with all my fonts set at 22, to keep my old eyes from having to strain.

I had to set the font size down to about 12 for the written word to fit in USP, if you know what I mean.

Is there an easy solution to this. This problem does happen with other softwares occasionaly too.

Due to the fact that I set my computer display differently than the vast majority, I bring a problem or 2 upon myself...

I've learnt to live with it, sometime I won't use the software due to fonts not fitting properly, occasionaly I temporarily change my screen res'!

As far as USP is concerned, I won't be able to use it, due to the font size problem. :(

So, I do hope that there is a simple fix, it could be something simple that I don't know about yet in Ubuntu settings... I hope so!

Anyway, I think you have done a great job, & many people will be delighted with your work! :KS

While I was composing my previous post, there were a few more posted, that I've just read...

I agree with them, get some sleep, it's such a nice thing to do... :)

handy said: USP installed fine on my system.

The Control Center does nothing when I click on it though.

I'm running 1600x1200 screen res', with all my fonts set at 22, to keep my old eyes from having to strain.

I had to set the font size down to about 12 for the written word to fit in USP, if you know what I mean.

Is there an easy solution to this. This problem does happen with other softwares occasionaly too.

Due to the fact that I set my computer display differently than the vast majority, I bring a problem or 2 upon myself...

I've learnt to live with it, sometime I won't use the software due to fonts not fitting properly, occasionaly I temporarily change my screen res'!

As far as USP is concerned, I won't be able to use it, due to the font size problem. :(

So, I do hope that there is a simple fix, it could be something simple that I don't know about yet in Ubuntu settings... I hope so!

Anyway, I think you have done a great job, & many people will be delighted with your work! :KS

Control center does not work because you dont have my Ubuntu Control Center installed :D You can download it in the other thread or you can just change then control center item in gconf-editor to 'gnome-control-center' or 'control-center' (if you have SLED installed)

As for the fonts, I might be able to create a 'large fonts' version... I will see what I can do. I know my friend Viper550 did some hacking to get the fonts bigger in USLED so maybe you can use that if it will suite you better...

Anything else, let me know ok?

Running from a terminal usp run-in-window i get this error:

/usr/bin/usp:483: GtkWarning: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a container of type GtkHBox, but the widget is already inside a container of type GtkHBox, the GTK+ FAQ at http://www.gtk.org/faq/ explains how to reparent a widget. HBox1.add(PlaceIcon) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1249, in ? menu_factory(app, None) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1240, in menu_factory MenuWin(applet, iid) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1123, in __init__ self.mainwin = MainWindow() File "/usr/bin/usp", line 92, in __init__ self.Todos() File "/usr/bin/usp", line 439, in Todos openfile = open(self.get_file_path(path), 'r') IOError: [Errno 13] Permesso negato: '/usr/share/applications/net-gsambad.desktop'

If I run the same command with sudo it starts but i see a lot of glitches..

PS:You're doing a really good job man!!!!

nicky.7 said: Running from a terminal usp run-in-window i get this error:

/usr/bin/usp:483: GtkWarning: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a container of type GtkHBox, but the widget is already inside a container of type GtkHBox, the GTK+ FAQ at http://www.gtk.org/faq/ explains how to reparent a widget. HBox1.add(PlaceIcon) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1249, in ? menu_factory(app, None) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1240, in menu_factory MenuWin(applet, iid) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1123, in __init__ self.mainwin = MainWindow() File "/usr/bin/usp", line 92, in __init__ self.Todos() File "/usr/bin/usp", line 439, in Todos openfile = open(self.get_file_path(path), 'r') IOError: [Errno 13] Permesso negato: '/usr/share/applications/net-gsambad.desktop'

If I run the same command with sudo it starts but i see a lot of glitches..

PS:You're doing a really good job man!!!!

It seems that you do not have permission to read this file - '/usr/share/applications/net-gsambad.desktop'

Open up /usr/share/applications as root and right click on the file, go to permission and make sure 'read' is checked for 'owner', 'group' and 'others'....

repeat for all files that you have this error for...

Let me know if it works....

I will fix this in the next release....

It works now! Thanks a lot. Some suggestion for you. Copy something from sled menu!

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• Application browser with favourite apps in the main menu.

Great stuff ! Installed on edgy64.

Problems:

1.Places & Applications: no places/applications are listed (they are listed if I click on "all applications)

1. Settings menu: Icons and title texts are too big (its bigger than the menu width (in system management sub menu its good). Icons in settings should be 1 size smaller, title text should be smaller, it is enough if its in bold. (I'm using 1280x1024)

Suggestions:

1."All applications" sould list all the apps one under the other (icon + text, so we can scroll through the list (better than only the icons).

PS : I have slab working very well.

JoWilly said: Great stuff ! Installed on edgy64.

Problems:

1.Places & Applications: no places/applications are listed (they are listed if I click on "all applications)

1. Settings menu: Icons and title texts are too big (its bigger than the menu width (in system management sub menu its good). Icons in settings should be 1 size smaller, title text should be smaller, it is enough if its in bold. (I'm using 1280x1024)

Suggestions:

1."All applications" sould list all the apps one under the other (icon + text, so we can scroll through the list (better than only the icons).

PS : I have slab working very well.

When you say SLAB you mean NDL SLAB right?

You have to pin the USP and drag items in places and Applications for yourself... It comes blank for you to customize it yourself! ;)

I will try to make the font size and icon size configurable

In the next release, 'All Applications' will have an option to view as a list with labels so you can scroll to your heart's content (most likely it will be categorised too)

chanders said: When you say SLAB you mean NDL SLAB right?

Yep. Said it was working so you know apps are displayed fine with slab.

chanders said:

You have to pin the USP and drag items in places and Applications for yourself... It comes blank for you to customize it yourself! ;)

Jeezzz ! Yeah, ... it was the same with slab... sorry for that.

chanders said:

I will try to make the font size and icon size configurable

In the next release, 'All Applications' will have an option to view as a list with labels so you can scroll to your heart's content (most likely it will be categorised too)

Excellent ! Looking forward to it :)

Viper550 said: See, dissatified customers! And, let me rephrase what I said: USlab is easy enough, but this seems more like a Power-User version of USlab. If it were to be included ALONGSIDE USlab, that's fine with me!

I aint dissatisfied I had worse problems with USlab. I just got it working. All the dependancys and it still looks like crap and hardlye works, and dont forget the right click

Ok, this is amazing I got it working in the window, but I can't add it to the panel.

Wow, this is great I just got it working. Good job chanders

I won't get to install this app untill tonight... does it match whatever current theme is being used in gnome? If not, that's probably a good feature to plan in..

outdooricon said: I won't get to install this app untill tonight... does it match whatever current theme is being used in gnome? If not, that's probably a good feature to plan in..

Yes it does match the current theme

Note360 said: Wow, this is great I just got it working. Good job chanders

You're welcome... It's amazing how much we can do by being positive... and offering a *helping* hand.... Some people will never learn.... But we shall continue to provide great software...

Thanks again Note360!

One more thing chanders, could the panel button be placed a little bit more to the left(less space between the ubuntu logo and the left edge of the panel)?

lazyd2 said: One more thing chanders, could the panel button be placed a little bit more to the left(less space between the ubuntu logo and the left edge of the panel)?

You got it! - Next release...

chanders said: You got it! - Next release...

Just to clarify, not only the ubuntu logo but both(logo+"System")

Thank you for your great job:)

Wow, chanders get some sleep. Don't worry about it I remember the trouble I hade with USlab It was like a week of twiddling around getting things working then I gave up and eventually tried again. Oh and Viper never helped me. It is still buggy but what do you want from a .12 release (what is it super Alpha right now). Last thing you really should get this included into Edgy Eft.

wow, this menu looks great. i've never really liked the idea of having a single menu, ala windows, but i'm sorely tempted by this one. i'm away from my comp for the next 3 weeks, but once i get back, i'll give it a try, and post my feedback...

Note360 said: Wow, chanders get some sleep. Don't worry about it I remember the trouble I hade with USlab It was like a week of twiddling around getting things working then I gave up and eventually tried again. Oh and Viper never helped me. It is still buggy but what do you want from a .12 release (what is it super Alpha right now). Last thing you really should get this included into Edgy Eft.

I am so happy to help, I cant sleep LOL, but I am sure I'll crash later... I will make a proposal to see how far it gets... the most frustrating thing is trying to get things done in the app the long way around when I am sure some guru could do it in a few lines.... There are some bugs, I could do with some help to squash...

So - Any pygtk / python developers, please let me know who you are (and you wont mind answering some questions)...

@YourDoom123 - The more the merrier :D

Bugfix!

0.13 now solves the problem of the USP not showing up on the correct desktop sometimes... (thanks to Mat)

Download in the first post...

Unfortuantly I am not a pythong programmer so I can't help you If I could I would. (I am a perl programmer). You know what we need next somethign to replace SUSE's Gnome-Application-Browser. That is the final piece.

Oh, and as for Viper don't mind him he is trying to copy off of SLED you are doing something much mroe valuble you are reinventing what Suse has to what it should be for Ubuntu.

Note360 said: Unfortuantly I am not a pythong programmer so I can't help you If I could I would. (I am a perl programmer). You know what we need next somethign to replace SUSE's Gnome-Application-Browser. That is the final piece.

Oh, and as for Viper don't mind him he is trying to copy off of SLED you are doing something much mroe valuble you are reinventing what Suse has to what it should be for Ubuntu.

maybe if I can integrate it properly, we wont need a whole application browser.... will come up with something...

I agree. I don't like the way it handle "all applications" sorry... Otherwise... it looks interesting. I will test more tonight when I am more free

Hmm, sounds good. Don't know where to start but we probably should do something like that just to finish up the whole "We are better than SLED 10" thing.

Note360 said: Hmm, sounds good. Don't know where to start but we probably should do something like that just to finish up the whole "We are better than SLED 10" thing.

Yeah, thats the main reason I wrote the app (from scratch I might add ;) ) with bits and pieces from tutorials and sample code I found scattered around the web....

This community just gives you wings (sorry couldnt resist)...

Ok I am working a a patch that will change the more app viewer to the gnome-application-browser but I need to package that with it or you have to have vipers pre installed. Vipers source is free so I assume we can go through and pickout the application.

Oh and I need help pakcaging it into a .deb file.

Note360 said: Ok I am working a a patch that will change the more app viewer to the gnome-application-browser but I need to package that with it or you have to have vipers pre installed. Vipers source is free so I assume we can go through and pickout the application.

Oh and I need help pakcaging it into a .deb file.

No patch necessary! Just edit /apps/usp/more_applications in gconf-editor and put your favourite application browser there ;)

Foresight...

Lol, thats what I did actually I was just trying to make it the default but couldn't.

Nevermind I don't lnow enough about Python. I thought it would be simple.

Note360 said: Lol, thats what I did actually I was just trying to make it the default but couldn't.

Nevermind I don't lnow enough about Python. I thought it would be simple.

Yeah, I could have put it as default but not all users have (or even want) the application-browser.....So I opted for something that will work on all machines...

Going to grab some zzzzz's see you all in a few hours.... Have fun playing with the menu and have many questions for me when I get back ;)

Sweet dreams lol

Good night. Any way I think that we probably should make our own Application Browser. However as previously stated I don't know python or how to work gtk. (Parrot will be a godsend)

Mayday, I've got a serious problem here...

I'am running Edgy since the repositories are up. However, USP has killed my Gnome session. This happened when I launched "ALL APPLICATIONS" and tried to add "Archive Manager".

Actually, I'am in the failsafe session and I've absolutely no way to get my normal session working. I removed, purge USP and the applet and restarted but with no luck.

I've no clue about my problem except it could be related to D-bus.

I am absolutely zen but I'am affraid this time I'am stuck for real. Bad move. :mrgreen:

Hm, it's probably edgy.

Weird bug. I drag something into the places or the applications area. A few minutes later, I see the icon float across the screen and then disappear (like what happens if you try to drag a file in nautilus where it is not allowed.) If I had dragged multiple icons into the menu, the all float by one by one.

haha I got the same, icons floating all around.

augied said: Weird bug.

I drag something into the places or the applications area. A few minutes later, I see the icon float across the screen and then disappear (like what happens if you try to drag a file in nautilus where it is not allowed.) If I had dragged multiple icons into the menu, the all float by one by one.Just log out and login again.

Just to clarify, the bookmark/application does show up in the menu. This just happens about five minutes later. There is no missing functionality, it's just wierd and I wish it would stop.

Feature request/suggestion: Have the places section work with the gtk-bookmarks file. The syntax of the file is a little different from the places.list file that is currently used, but I don't think it would be too hard to do (that said, I I'm not sure how to do it.) If someone could work out a way to have the other items in the gnome places menu show up, like the cd and usb drives that automatically appear, that would be great. Also I'd love to have a recent documents section.

I am getting nothing in the places section or the application section. If I press All Apps they show up.

Chanders, your doing some great work here, thanks very much!

The places window does not auto populate - you need to drag and drop what you want in there. :)

I'm loving the work on this and gControl.

I just had a few suggestions: 1) Be able to add seperators (hlines) not just spaces. 2) Integrate either Deskbar (I think that's python) or atleast a run dialog 3) Add a small border around the box, just a few pixels to set it off the desktop 4)Keep up the great work!

PsyberOneZero said: 1) Be able to add seperators (hlines) not just spaces.

Crap, I was going to suggest that but I forgot.

I tried the modified slab, and got rid of it within 5 minutes. This, however, is awesome! Thanks for the fantastic work!

The only issues I'm having is that there doesn't appear to be enough room in the settings panel, leaving me with a funkity scroll bar on the far right (fortunately the settings panel can be hidden - nice touch!), and that it is labeled "System" rather than "Apps" or something, but that I can get used to.

sethmahoney said: I tried the modified slab, and got rid of it within 5 minutes. This, however, is awesome! Thanks for the fantastic work!

The only issues I'm having is that there doesn't appear to be enough room in the settings panel, leaving me with a funkity scroll bar on the far right (fortunately the settings panel can be hidden - nice touch!), and that it is labeled "System" rather than "Apps" or something, but that I can get used to.Check posts #103, #104 here.;)

Chanders,

Nice work :D - it was beginning to worry me slightly that we keep playing with Novell toys - who else is innovating... Looks like that question has been answered :)

Are you going to write a spec for this, put it on Lunchpad and mail the devel list? Even if you target Edgy+1 or +2 Launchpad seems to be TUW (the Ubuntu Way)... (if you want to work on the code/don't have any interest in Launchpad (and you ask very nicely :P) I may have time to do some speccing for you)

I like to use Transparency on my Gnome panels. Is there any way we could get transparency support into this applet? The standard "Menu Bar" works great for this. Also, is there a nice ReadMe that lays out how everything should work? Would you be accepting of ideas and feedback towards this? Also, what language is used? I might enjoy helping out on this. My C is rusty but workable, but I don't know Python at all (wouldn't imagine it would be hard to learn though).

augied said: Weird bug.

I drag something into the places or the applications area. A few minutes later, I see the icon float across the screen and then disappear (like what happens if you try to drag a file in nautilus where it is not allowed.) If I had dragged multiple icons into the menu, the all float by one by one.

Lol, thos ghost icons are a known issue, I will look into it as soon as the app gets a little more polished..

augied said: Feature request/suggestion: Have the places section work with the gtk-bookmarks file. The syntax of the file is a little different from the places.list file that is currently used, but I don't think it would be too hard to do (that said, I I'm not sure how to do it.) If someone could work out a way to have the other items in the gnome places menu show up, like the cd and usb drives that automatically appear, that would be great.

Also I'd love to have a recent documents section.

The nautilus bookmark file is a good idea, and could probably be done as long as i figure out the file layout... The USB and CD drives may require D-BUS and I havent dabbled into D-BUS yet but I am getting there...

PsyberOneZero said: I'm loving the work on this and gControl.

I just had a few suggestions: 1) Be able to add seperators (hlines) not just spaces. 2) Integrate either Deskbar (I think that's python) or atleast a run dialog 3) Add a small border around the box, just a few pixels to set it off the desktop 4)Keep up the great work!

*Hlines sound great and most likely will make it into the nextversion ;) *Integtrating deskbar is also D-BUS so when I get on that train we could solve all of those requests.. *Border will be added and I will try to make it configurable *Trying my best to keep up the good work :-D

sethmahoney said: I tried the modified slab, and got rid of it within 5 minutes. This, however, is awesome! Thanks for the fantastic work!

The only issues I'm having is that there doesn't appear to be enough room in the settings panel, leaving me with a funkity scroll bar on the far right (fortunately the settings panel can be hidden - nice touch!), and that it is labeled "System" rather than "Apps" or something, but that I can get used to.

Yeah, the settings panel will lose the scroll bar, have no fear...

Who said: Chanders,

Nice work :D - it was beginning to worry me slightly that we keep playing with Novell toys - who else is innovating... Looks like that question has been answered :)

Are you going to write a spec for this, put it on Lunchpad and mail the devel list? Even if you target Edgy+1 or +2 Launchpad seems to be TUW (the Ubuntu Way)... (if you want to work on the code/don't have any interest in Launchpad (and you ask very nicely :P) I may have time to do some speccing for you)

Glad you liked it! My hands are so full with coding but I am asking nicely ;), would you mind terribly helping out with the speccing?

mattisking said: I like to use Transparency on my Gnome panels. Is there any way we could get transparency support into this applet? The standard "Menu Bar" works great for this. Also, is there a nice ReadMe that lays out how everything should work? Would you be accepting of ideas and feedback towards this? Also, what language is used? I might enjoy helping out on this. My C is rusty but workable, but I don't know Python at all (wouldn't imagine it would be hard to learn though).

Getting the applet itself (on the panel) transparent will be one of the first things I will try to address.. As for the readme, if someone would like to host a small site I could come up with a really good manual (This app is only 16kb!).. The introduction in the first post should get you started however...

I would love ideas and feedback, please feel free... This app is written in PyGTK with the backend as Python... If you would like to help, just let me know ;-)

works OOB here. Love it!

Excellent work, Chanders!

Iandefor said: works OOB here. Love it!

Excellent work, Chanders!

Glad you like it!

lazyd2 said: Check posts #103, #104 here.;)

Fantastic news (and the icon size thing was bugging me a little too, so hey, good news there, too!)! Thanks!

Just hit the ghost icon issue, but I trust you'll have a fix at some point soon :twisted:.

Wow dude you need a server I got one (small), justdont over flood my bandwith cause I have another site on it

Defending you guys against Viper is tough work. That guy is a pompous ***.

Note360 said: Wow dude you need a server I got one (small), justdont over flood my bandwith cause I have another site on it

Nice! I am currently coding the next release... When I am finished with the web site/manual I will pm you... Hopefuly others with more bandwidth would offer their services too... Thanks so much...

Well think of it as that crummy motel (I think in metaphors to much) your welcome in for as long as you want for cheap until you can get your bearings. (no prostitutes allowed though).

Edit: Oh I think you should roll your little collection of apps into one package as well as distribute them seperatly. (Ubuntu Control Pack?)

Note360 said: Well think of it as that crummy motel (I think in metaphors to much) your welcome in for as long as you want for cheap until you can get your bearings. (no prostitutes allowed though). ROFL... oh dear.

What I can't joke around? LoL

Note360 said: What I can't joke around? LoL No... I was just laughing lol.

I too was just joking when I said what I can't joke.

chanders said: Control center does not work because you dont have my Ubuntu Control Center installed :D You can download it in the other thread or you can just change then control center item in gconf-editor to 'gnome-control-center' or 'control-center' (if you have SLED installed)

As for the fonts, I might be able to create a 'large fonts' version... I will see what I can do. I know my friend Viper550 did some hacking to get the fonts bigger in USLED so maybe you can use that if it will suite you better...

Anything else, let me know ok?

Thanks Chanders, you are a cool frude! 8)

I will be watching this thread like a hawk, you respond so quickly... :KS

[Edit:]

Even if the window could be resized & set to allways open at that size, that would solve my font problem, providing the System Management options expanded proportionately?

handy said: Thanks Chanders, you are a cool frude! 8)

I will be watching this thread like a hawk, you respond so quickly... :KS

[Edit:]

Even if the window could be resized & set to allways open at that size, that would solve my font problem, providing the System Management options expanded proportionately?

Right now I am coding the font settings... You will now bw able to set the font size according to your liking... Having the menu resizeable would not be such a good idea though...

Can you tell me exactly *which* labels are too large? That way I can put a setting in for it...

[LEFT]The red was the default color, I was too lazy to change the text size and I only did this because I like what you've made and I want to see it get even better! [/LEFT]

chanders said: Right now I am coding the font settings... You will now bw able to set the font size according to your liking... Having the menu resizeable would not be such a good idea though...

Does that mean that the fonts will be adjustable seperately for the menu?

I have installed GCC, great stuff. :KS

I then posted on that thread that the font problem exists in GCC too. I sound like a whinger! :(

I'm not, I think your work is positively wonderful! 8) :KS

jimmygoon said: [LEFT]The red was the default color, I was too lazy to change the text size and I only did this because I like what you've made and I want to see it get even better!

[/LEFT]

LOL...Ok...

• The in the places area I will try to have computer there by default...
• The small button (pin button) doesnt have any graphic because I couldnt find a good one to put ;-) (ideas?)
• Tiny text on button will be increased
• Large text in system is/will now be configurable... Icon sizes in a subsequent release..
• I Cant really do anything about the missing title other than put a placement like "Edit me!" or something....
• What do you suggest for the alignment of the system management buttons?

This is great Chanders.

On my desktop I use just the bottom panel and its set to 49px in height. It looks like the USP menu is sitting behind my gnome panel and I cant see the bottom of the USP menu.

A screenshot displays this easier. [IMG]http://www.zacbarton.com/USP.png[/IMG]

Keep up the great work :-)

Great App. Although not as polished as the slab menu applet it's getting there. I'm really tempted to keep using the slab menu because it's more polished but I guess I'll use this for a while and see if it doesn't grow on me.

If it was a bit smarter about placement (like drawing over the panel shadow instead of under, because it looks really wrong with the shadow over it) and the look was a bit more customisable (like the option to add a border that looks like the slab menu applet's border because it looks way too flat right now) it would blow slab out of the water. I think it also needs an option to have it forget the layout. So I can click places and go to my music folder but when I come back to the menu it goes back to a specific arrangement (like having only the applications section showing).

Well, I'm looking foward to seeing how this develops, it looks really promising.

Here's a screenshot: [[IMG]http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6313/screenshot58thumbmc3.png[/IMG]]("http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5203/screenshot58bs7.png")

PS: This really needs a preferences dialogue/window. Are you planning to have one?

Hiya Chanders,

A little bug I have noticed *When I start the panel (from my double height panel) it is slightly underneath the panel

I think you could do away with the need for your own application organiser by adding the current applications menu to the side of the usp - It means we don't regress on any fuinctionality and makes transition (for users and devs) much easier

so for example

|F       |S     |Accessories > |
| a      | y    |Education >   |
|  v     |  s   |Internet >    |
| A      |C     |Office >      |
|   p    | o    |System Tools >|
|     p  |   n  |Blah >        |
|       s|     f|Places >      |

Also, I'd love to see it possible to make plugins (probably whenDbus comes along) so that you can have things like 'Current Song' 'Next Tasks' 'New Emails' in a new pane aswell

Keep going, it's wicked!

Who

Who said: Hiya Chanders,

A little bug I have noticed *When I start the panel (from my double height panel) it is slightly underneath the panel

I think you could do away with the need for your own application organiser by adding the current applications menu to the side of the usp - It means we don't regress on any fuinctionality and makes transition (for users and devs) much easier

so for example

|F       |S     |Accessories > |
| a      | y    |Education >   |
|  v     |  s   |Internet >    |
| A      |C     |Office >      |
|   p    | o    |System Tools >|
|     p  |   n  |Blah >        |
|       s|     f|Places >      |

Also, I'd love to see it possible to make plugins (probably whenDbus comes along) so that you can have things like 'Current Song' 'Next Tasks' 'New Emails' in a new pane aswell

Keep going, it's wicked!

Who

Already Implemented! See new version;)

As for the plugins I am in the process of writing an API for them. DBUS will have to come along a little later as i couldnt find too much on the net to learn from... But I will get there...

chanders said: Already Implemented! See new version;)

As for the plugins I am in the process of writing an API for them. DBUS will have to come along a little later as i couldnt find too much on the net to learn from... But I will get there...

Have you talked to iXce from Compiz.net - didn't he do the Compiz DBus stuff?

chanders said: Already Implemented! See new version;)

Wicked - does anyone have any screenshots?

Who said: Wicked - does anyone have any screenshots?

Go for it... Post them up when you do ;)

chanders said: Go for it... Post them up when you do ;)

I'm not actually on Ubuntu now :S I was hoping someone else could post some

Some screenshots

[[IMG]http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/9946/screenshotco2.th.jpg[/IMG]]("http://img73.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotco2.jpg") [[IMG]http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/995/screenshot2ku6.th.jpg[/IMG]](http://img239.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot2ku6.jpg) [[IMG]http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6325/screenshot1xf7.th.jpg[/IMG]]("http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot1xf7.jpg") [[IMG]http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/8852/screenshotrk4.th.jpg[/IMG]](http://img239.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotrk4.jpg)

I have few wishes with 0.20-1 version.

1. I had changed "search command" with beagle-search by gconf, but unexpectedly USP keeps filtering programs as seen on the attached. However, pressing "search" button brings beagle UI though. If possible, I'd like to have both command filter and search filter independently(?).

1. I could use "use custom color" to distinguish border from background color, but overall it's quite difficult to users so a menu with USP to control border, color and font would be nice.

1. Compared to gnome-main-menu, I think I am missing "recently used documents".

1. Depending on font, small size fonts are not so looking good so that same size font with regular/bold combination may better, IMO.

1. I'd like to have smaller "Place" section and bigger "Application" section so maybe have two-colums list for programs same as gnome-main-menu.

Thanks for nice program, Chanders :)

Looks good (just woke up) installing the new version now.

Cant believe how stupid I was. I got it jut upgraded to .21.

chanders said:

• The small button (pin button) doesnt have any graphic because I couldnt find a good one to put ;-) (ideas?)

How about something like the one here... http://chakuriki.sakura.ne.jp/wema/image/pin.png

So far USP is looking great. I made some mock ups on how I feel the USP show look and feel. Take a look and see if you like any of the ideas to implement into USP. Most of the changes are reorganizing of items. I do feel that the three sections are out of order. It should stick to the order of the Menu Bar (Applications, Places then System)

[IMG]http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/data/4/jarred.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/data/4/Favorites.jpg[/IMG]

BTW, I just updated USP and the new Applications USP is great.

I like how USP .21-1 has the ability to filters apps by type, but it's a little screwy in how it does it. Unless the menu editor was really just a boring game all along and you just got it sorted right, and "apply theme" is appropriate for an office environment :-D.

Small annoyance: When you use the filter and open an app, the filter does not reset, meaning that you have to manually reset it. The same happens when you run a search. Maybe this should be a setting (autoclear.) I think someone already suggested having a configurable default layout that the menu always resets itself to when reopened. Maybe there could be a set default button on the menu.

Also, when the applications menu is in the favorite apps view and you start typing, the filter loses focus.

Iandefor said: I like how USP .21-1 has the ability to filters apps by type, but it's a little screwy in how it does it. Unless the menu editor was really just a boring game all along and you just got it sorted right, and "apply theme" is appropriate for an office environment :-D.

Software Update appears to be a game.

augied said: Software Update appears to be a game. It is! What a boring game... watch the progress bar go... *yawns*.

I like tetravex better!

Ok guys, just got up after a few hours sleep :yes: Iwill be looking at the suggestions and the bugs and will be working actively on USP today...

Iandefor said: It is! What a boring game... watch the progress bar go... *yawns*.

I like tetravex better! Personally, I like the one where you try to turn all the little boxes green by double clicking on them. What's that one called?

chanders said: Ok guys, just got up after a few hours sleep :yes: Iwill be looking at the suggestions and the bugs and will be working actively on USP today...

That's the problem with writing good software. We never let you sleep. We may tell you to, but that's just to guilt you into working harder.

Yerp we are just that cruel

Note360 said: Yerp we are just that cruel

LOL, I have fun doing it so no worries ;)

@Note360 - Havent got around to the site yet thats why I havent contacted yu... I am still coding like crazy...:D

Lol, sorry just wondering I woke up and I am like wow this .21 is great wonder why chanders didnt contact me. HMMM. Let me ask him.

Oh also I am thinking about learning python.

zacbarton said: This is great Chanders.

On my desktop I use just the bottom panel and its set to 49px in height. It looks like the USP menu is sitting behind my gnome panel and I cant see the bottom of the USP menu.

Hmmm... If you have SLED installed, how does it show up? In line with the panel or on top the panel? (will help with coming up with a solution)

atie said: I have few wishes with 0.20-1 version.

1. I had changed "search command" with beagle-search by gconf, but unexpectedly USP keeps filtering programs as seen on the attached. However, pressing "search" button brings beagle UI though. If possible, I'd like to have both command filter and search filter independently(?).

1. I could use "use custom color" to distinguish border from background color, but overall it's quite difficult to users so a menu with USP to control border, color and font would be nice.

1. Compared to gnome-main-menu, I think I am missing "recently used documents".

1. Depending on font, small size fonts are not so looking good so that same size font with regular/bold combination may better, IMO.

1. I'd like to have smaller "Place" section and bigger "Application" section so maybe have two-colums list for programs same as gnome-main-menu.

Thanks for nice program, Chanders :)

• Not sure how to implement a search and filter simultaneously without adding two entry boxes :-k Any ideas?
• Custom color for the border is #1 on the list today
• Recently used not implemented yet... stay tuned
• Font sizes are now customizable not weight though
• Will look at it, not a priority though..

Iandefor said: I like how USP .21-1 has the ability to filters apps by type, but it's a little screwy in how it does it. Unless the menu editor was really just a boring game all along and you just got it sorted right, and "apply theme" is appropriate for an office environment :-D.

Yeah, it was late/early :D Not sure how GNOME does the sorting though but This will be fixed in the next release

augied said: Small annoyance: When you use the filter and open an app, the filter does not reset, meaning that you have to manually reset it. The same happens when you run a search. Maybe this should be a setting (autoclear.)

I think someone already suggested having a configurable default layout that the menu always resets itself to when reopened. Maybe there could be a set default button on the menu.

Also, when the applications menu is in the favorite apps view and you start typing, the filter loses focus.

• Will add auto-clear on search/minimise
• Will fix focus bug in the next release

Hi, i posted my problem on the compiz forum. I put it here too : Hi,

Great stuff. But i have a few problems. The main problem have been resolved with the new deb version, but i still have a problem with the icons (Gnome theme) : [[img]http://pix.nofrag.com/4e/07/fd9364d229f5834e7043c925fde2t.jpg[/img]](http://pix.nofrag.com/4e/07/fd9364d229f5834e7043c925fde2.html) (lock screen icon "for the size", computer icon "for the icon"..)

Thanks Is anybody have a similar problem ?

Can we get a way to remove the text from the panel button? (thus making the button much smaller)

Hells_Dark said: Hi, i posted my problem on the compiz forum.

I put it here too :

Is anybody have a similar problem ? have you tried changing the theme? See if it works then... USP uses the default gnome names for icons so it has to do with your icon theme is my guess....

The 'size' problem will be fixed in the next release...

augied said: Can we get a way to remove the text from the panel button? (thus making the button much smaller)

This is not usually configurable, but I will se what I can do ;)

I think the order of the different areas should be configurable.

ex) Applications Places System

or

System Places Applications

I should be able to change the order. (Plugin support might be a good idea to include at some point, so you dont have to do everything)

chanders said: have you tried changing the theme? See if it works then... USP uses the default gnome names for icons so it has to do with your icon theme is my guess....

I tried a lot of themes. I have the same problem with a lot of them (crux,crystal svg,flat blue, GNOME....) And it works with a few ones (Human, Tango, Tangerine..)

Strange :sad:

And i wanna keep my gnome icon theme.

The 'size' problem will be fixed in the next release...

Thanks ;)

Great work! I like it, BUT It's too big IE it takes up a lot of desktop screen space. I've seen a lot of linux users complain how big the XP Menu is, well this is like twice as big - maybe even more. I think for the next version(s) you should aim to make it smaller

AlexC_ said: Great work! I like it, BUT It's too big IE it takes up a lot of desktop screen space. I've seen a lot of linux users complain how big the XP Menu is, well this is like twice as big - maybe even more. I think for the next version(s) you should aim to make it smallerYou can make it quite smaller...Since it has 3 tabs you select what you want. If it starts getting smaller (IMO) there gonna be problems with fonts, icons, etc.

lazyd2 said: You can make it quite smaller...Since it has 3 tabs you select what you want. If it starts getting smaller (IMO) there gonna be problems with fonts, icons, etc.

I know you can enable/disable the different tabs, I mean - the height and way it's laid out makes it feel big, and the use of big fonts/icons really doesn't help. I don't know why but most linux dev's make there applications phyiscaly big and use big icons/text - just using smaller fonts and icons can make the application much much smaller in size ( desktop wise ).

Hello thanks chandler for this great app ! Very good work ! I have a small problem and can't found the solution on the last version 0.21 when I launch app with the new "all app" mostly of this apps won't run because a parameter %U is passed. but when this app is in favorites no problem... Did I'm alone with this problem ?

NNois said: Hello thanks chandler for this great app ! Very good work !

I have a small problem and can't found the solution on the last version 0.21 when I launch app with the new "all app" mostly of this apps won't run because a parameter %U is passed. but when this app is in favorites no problem... Did I'm alone with this problem ?

Will fix this in the next release.. ;)

Woah this is amazing. Worked straight away. Wish I had skills to do this. I still can't create a glassy effect in GIMP.

Anyway I really like this. Has replaced my main menu thingy.

Couple of issues/suggestions. I am comapring v20 and v21. In v20 there was a regular window border. Hitting the X messed it up but I like the border (maybe just remove the X). In v21 it was gone and looked very odd. Didn't fit in the with the whole scheme. Can it be put back or have it as some configurable option.

In v20 mine seems to hover an inch or so above the panel. Odd.

In both of them places that I have dragged into the places area don't do anything. Are they ment to yet?

Some screens

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m163/ironfistchamp/panelv20.png http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m163/ironfistchamp/panelv21.png

What does the pin button acutally do? Also it would eb great if the menu closed when I clicked outside of it like a normal menu. Just a suggestion.

Thanks for some wonderful work. You have done an amazing job.

Ironfistchamp

The places work on mine and try fooling around with the border length in gconf. (The pin keeps the window open even after a app is launched I think)

ironfistchamp said: Woah this is amazing. Worked straight away. Wish I had skills to do this. I still can't create a glassy effect in GIMP.

Anyway I really like this. Has replaced my main menu thingy.

Couple of issues/suggestions. I am comapring v20 and v21. In v20 there was a regular window border. Hitting the X messed it up but I like the border (maybe just remove the X). In v21 it was gone and looked very odd. Didn't fit in the with the whole scheme. Can it be put back or have it as some configurable option.

In v20 mine seems to hover an inch or so above the panel. Odd.

In both of them places that I have dragged into the places area don't do anything. Are they ment to yet?

Some screens

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m163/ironfistchamp/panelv20.png http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m163/ironfistchamp/panelv21.png

What does the pin button acutally do? Also it would eb great if the menu closed when I clicked outside of it like a normal menu. Just a suggestion.

Thanks for some wonderful work. You have done an amazing job.

Ironfistchamp

That border was a bug :D You will be able to add your own in the next release...

The window closes when you click away... You need to un-pin it by clicking on the smallest button on the top left...

Glad you like it ;)

Wow how many lines of code is it now?

Horizon said: I think it also needs an option to have it forget the layout. So I can click places and go to my music folder but when I come back to the menu it goes back to a specific arrangement (like having only the applications section showing).

I second this idea. I usually only have applications open, then I open places to go to my home folder, and have to manually make it close places (so once again only applications is showing). It would be nice if it did this automatically.

Hi Chanders,

I have changed the font size a variety of times, all the way down to 2. Does not solve my problem. I still have unusably large fonts in USP... :(

I've attached an image for your perusal... :?:

handy said: Hi Chanders,

I have changed the font size a variety of times, all the way down to 2. Does not solve my problem. I still have unusably large fonts in USP... :(

I've attached an image for your perusal... :?:

WOW :shock: From the looks of it, no matter what size of fonts you use, USP wont work well because of the layout of the panel :-(

chanders said: Hmmm... If you have SLED installed, how does it show up? In line with the panel or on top the panel? (will help with coming up with a solution)

Heres a screenshot with USP and SLED, hope it helps :-) [IMG]http://www.zacbarton.com/USP2.png[/IMG]

zacbarton said: Heres a screenshot with USP and SLED, hope it helps :-)

Thanks... There is one critical item I need to solve for this to work.... Will work on it as soon as is possible..

chanders said: WOW :shock: From the looks of it, no matter what size of fonts you use, USP wont work well because of the layout of the panel :-(

Is there a solution?

Is there any CVS or Subversion access? I would like to do some work on the source, to see if I can add a bit of extra polish to it.

I haven't looked, but I think the source is supplied in the .deb...

Hey,

What people think about the order of names in favorite applications ? I mean the name in small and the generic name in strong..

I find it weird, i would prefer the opposite, don't you ?

Hells_Dark said: Hey,

What people think about the order of names in favorite applications ? I mean the name in small and the generic name in strong..

I find it weird, i would prefer the opposite, don't you ? I agree. It looks especially wierd when the app doesn't have a generic name (which is often the case) or if it's a (semi) long description.

Hells_Dark said: Hey,

What people think about the order of names in favorite applications ? I mean the name in small and the generic name in strong..

I find it weird, i would prefer the opposite, don't you ? Nope, i find this better. Because I have one application of each type in there (browser, email client, irc client etc.). Some of their names are long and it looks much neater this way. Kind of like the "Internet Browser" and "Email" entries in the XP start menu.

Maybe this could be an option? I'd love to be able to specify which two labels from the launcher show...then I could have say, the japanese name in big (GenericName['jp'] or however they list it in the launcher file) and the english name below for when I forget what the japanese means XD

augied said: I agree. It looks especially wierd when the app doesn't have a generic name (which is often the case) or if it's a (semi) long description.

When they don't have a generic name you can right click and edit the labels for now...

This is very nice chanders! Thank you for this great panel app! :)

I've tried it on Dapper and I noticed a few bugs.

Screenshots: [[IMG]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3840/usp1dc2.th.jpg[/IMG]](http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=usp1dc2.jpg) [[IMG]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/114/usp2ba1.th.jpg[/IMG]](http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=usp2ba1.jpg) (could this be dapper related?)

1. When I click on it, it's displayed like a new window, not like a menu (meaning it has a titlebar with an x button to close it).
2. When I click on the System button and try to click elsewhere (not on the menu) it won't disappear. I have to first click on the menu (to make the window active) and then it'll close with clicking outside of it.
3. Clicking on the x to close it really closes it but the System button stays activated (like being pushed) and I can't access the menu again. I have to remove it from the panel and add it again to be able to use it.
4. It can't be moved with the middle mouse button (like the other stuff on the panel). I have to choose move and then move it.

That's all for now. Again, thanks for this I really like it!

bojzi said: This is very nice chanders! Thank you for this great panel app! :)

I've tried it on Dapper and I noticed a few bugs.

Some of those bugs have already been fixed in the new version (i mean the 1, 2 and 3. The 4 still remaining..). If you don't find it here, try there : http://www.compiz.net/viewtopic.php?id=2112&p=1 Edit : this one : 0.21-1 version ;)

Ouch, now I see that I took the .20 version from the first page of this thread... Thanks! *feels stupid :)*

Used this some more after having some coffee so I am fully alert.

Anyway this is even better than I thought it was. I got the places working. I re-dragged them and all was well. Could have been v20 probs I don't know. I love the fact that this worked and Sled 10 complained of broken pipes (I thought electricity used wires :p ).

Yeh it doesn't close when I click outside. Sometimes it will loose focus but will still be up.

On the All Applications bit some apps are listed twice (Synaptic, Bug Report) and others are not listed at all (amarok, Banshee). Why might that be?

Keep up the good work.

handy said: Is there a solution?

Not without hacking the panel... I will give you some tips to get this done as soon as I get some spare time..

the_thunderbird said: Is there any CVS or Subversion access? I would like to do some work on the source, to see if I can add a bit of extra polish to it.

I dont have a CVS setup for this yet but I will hopefully soon... You can hack the source code (it's the /usr/bin/usp file) and post up your hacks ;)

augied said: I agree. It looks especially wierd when the app doesn't have a generic name (which is often the case) or if it's a (semi) long description.

Right click, make it what you want ;)

bojzi said:

1. It can't be moved with the middle mouse button (like the other stuff on the panel). I have to choose move and then move it.

That's all for now. Again, thanks for this I really like it! This stems from the fact that I dont have too much experience with panel buttons but it is on my list of things to do...

ironfistchamp said:

Yeh it doesn't close when I click outside. Sometimes it will loose focus but will still be up.

On the All Applications bit some apps are listed twice (Synaptic, Bug Report) and others are not listed at all (amarok, Banshee). Why might that be?

Keep up the good work. Make sure you dont have it 'pinned' (small button top left) for the focus to work...

Double applications fixed in the next version ;)

chanders said:

Right click, make it what you want ;)

Yeah, but it would be great nevertheless if we could switch generic name and name emplacements in a configuration pannel.

Just one little request that would mean the world to me... :) Can it be made so that when I select "All Aplications" it stays remembered after restarting?

And a bigger but not so important thing... Can it be made so that we could switch the placement of the parts of the menu (as in switch the places of the applications part and the places part, for example)?

melalcoolique said: Mayday, I've got a serious problem here...

I'am running Edgy since the repositories are up. However, USP has killed my Gnome session. This happened when I launched "ALL APPLICATIONS" and tried to add "Archive Manager".

Actually, I'am in the failsafe session and I've absolutely no way to get my normal session working. I removed, purge USP and the applet and restarted but with no luck.

I've no clue about my problem except it could be related to D-bus.

I am absolutely zen but I'am affraid this time I'am stuck for real. Bad move. :mrgreen:

Well, I saved my Good old Ubuntu installation but it was very very close.

Very surprised to be the only one to report a breakdown like this.

I will stick a bit with the Gnome menu.

Phewww...

This is a great project. No problems so far. No wonder no ones posting on the other slab related threads!

Err please verify, is this still dependent on nautilus?

Wow. Just installed this, and it's awesome. no more boring old gnome menus for me!

was it ever dependant on nautalius (just for the more app button I think which is by default hidden).

Thanks, Chanders.

I hated slab until I came across your version-- it's way better! Good work! Intuitive, functional, and nice looking...

Bug (on my system):

Clicking an item on Places starts nautilus but without --no-desktop option. This causes my xfce handled desktop via xfdesktop to be killed then the desktop overwritten by nautilus. Closing the browser window doesnt close the desktop handling, had to kill the nautilus process then manually restart xfdesktop.

Can you let nautilus handle folders as browser and with --no-desktop on? Can we manually set this? Checking via gconf I didn't see how.

Also, quit doesn't work in the USP.

Thanks.

EDIT: Also noticed, aside from killing xfdesktop, it also kills the xfce session manager. This also prevents quitting via the desktop menu.

Note360 said: was it ever dependant on nautalius (just for the more app button I think which is by default hidden).

Like I noted in other thread re: slab, any version of the slab always crashes on my system unless I installed nautilus. Note I had an xfce desktop with minimal gnome deps as much as possible.

Can we already do that : [IMG]http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/1299/allapplicationswh9.jpg[/IMG] I don't know how -_-

People we have a problem.

I have spent all morning trying to solve the zombie problem. Essentially when applications are closed they are zombied(takes no resources and does not use any cpu but unsightly). I have tried double forking, waiting etc but to no avail... Anyone with any info/ help please come forward... It really breaks my spirit when I cant solve things like these....

In the mean time I will do something a little less brain killing and try to finish up some more features... Just to keep you piqued on the next release..

and more...

• The border is working now. Color and size configurable 138
• Entry focus fixed
• Double entries in 'All applications' removed
• Now lists kde and other apps previously missing
• No more %U problems

To all the posts I havn't replied to since this morning I will shortly...

Quickly...

• The nautilus dependency can be easily fixed
• The above feature was removed... people didnt seem to like all the icons...
• Placement of panes coming soon...
• Should work with no problems on edgy .. dunno what happned with yours

Well edgy is edgy it could be anything. Oh and I am liking Python alot ( much neater than Perl but a few things bug me (the lack of confusion :p is one I grew so used to the Perlisms I almost cant live without em) )

Note360 said: Well edgy is edgy it could be anything. Oh and I am liking Python alot ( much neater than Perl but a few things bug me (the lack of confusion :p is one I grew so used to the Perlisms I almost cant live without em) )

Glad to know! Learn quickly so you can help me with the zombie problem :(

Zombie problem - Solved!

Wahey no more zombie... whats zombie?

I have the zombie effect and I'm using Dapper.

reacocard said: I have the zombie effect and I'm using Dapper.

Well guess what?! You wont have it in the next release... I just solved the problem....Yay!

chanders said: Zombie problem - Solved!

How?

I _really_ don't want to read through all of those posts so I'm not sure if someone has suggested it yet or not but you should use python-gmenu to read the applications menu. It's a python wrapper around the actual code that the applications menu uses so you get the same result (no permissions bugs, sorting oddities, etc). Also if you're using edgy alacarte 0.9.x has a python package 'Alacarte' installed with some code to do this and feed you menu items.

augied said: How?

Here is the code, basically spawn a child process of a child process and kill the first one. The Grand child is then inherited by init so when it exists, the system cleans up the zombie...

    def RunControl(self,widget,cmd):
    	pid = os.fork()
    	if pid:
            os.spawnvp(os.P_NOWAIT,cmd[0], cmd)
            os._exit(0)

Amaranth said: I _really_ don't want to read through all of those posts so I'm not sure if someone has suggested it yet or not but you should use python-gmenu to read the applications menu. It's a python wrapper around the actual code that the applications menu uses so you get the same result (no permissions bugs, sorting oddities, etc). Also if you're using edgy alacarte 0.9.x has a python package 'Alacarte' installed with some code to do this and feed you menu items.

Thank you very much Amaranth. I wish I had found this earlier as I did everything from scratch! I am tempted to use 'import Alacarte' but I am sure there are lots of dapper users who would like to use USP...

I will definitely take a look at python-gmenu. If you have a link for the docs, please post... Thanks again

chanders said: I am sure there are lots of dapper users who would like to use USP...

I approve :smile:

Well done for the zombie bug (even if i love zombies....brains, eat brains...).

That smell good for the next release. Anyway, think to sleep...a little a least ;-)

This might have been said earlier, but I didn't see it. I think that whenever the menu window gets smaller, for whatever reason, it should shrink from the top instead of from the bottom. I don't really like the gap between it and the panel, and it only gets worse if I select/deselect one of the panes and the whole thing shrinks upward.

Otherwise, impressive work.

Congrats on the zombie problem that was an annoying little bug.

There are no docs, sorry. :/ btw, the following code does "daemonize" the "correct" way, which is what I think you're trying to do.``` import os import sys import resource

UMASK = 0 if os.getuid() == 0: WORKDIR = '/' else: WORKDIR = os.getcwd() MAXFD = 1024

if (hasattr(os, 'devnull')): REDIRECT_TO = os.devnull else: REDIRECT_TO = '/dev/null'

def createDaemon(): try: pid = os.fork() except OSError, e: raise Exception, '%s [%d]' % (e.strerror, e.errno)

if (pid == 0): os.setsid() try: pid = os.fork() except OSError, e: raise Exception, '%s [%d]' % (e.strerror, e.errno)

if (pid == 0): os.chdir(WORKDIR) os.umask(UMASK) else: os._exit(0) else: os._exit(0)

maxfd = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)[1] if (maxfd == resource.RLIM_INFINITY): maxfd = MAXFD

for fd in range(0, maxfd): try: os.close(fd) except OSError: pass

os.open(REDIRECT_TO, os.O_RDWR) os.dup2(0, 1) os.dup2(0, 2) return (0)

If you rely on paths for anything you probably want to change WORKDIR.

Quick python-gmenu example:

import gmenu
class MenuExample:
	def __init__(self):
		self.tree = gmenu.lookup_tree('applications.menu')

	def getMenus(self, parent=None):
		if parent == None:
			#gives top-level "Applications" item
			yield self.tree.root
		else:
			for menu in parent.get_contents():
				if menu.get_type() == gmenu.TYPE_DIRECTORY and self.__isVisible(menu):
					yield menu

	def getItems(self, menu):
		for item in menu.get_contents():
			if item.get_type() == gmenu.TYPE_ENTRY and item.get_desktop_file_id()[-19:] != '-usercustom.desktop' and self.__isVisible(item):
				yield item

	def __isVisible(self, item):
		if item.get_type() == gmenu.TYPE_ENTRY:
			return not (item.get_is_excluded() or item.get_is_nodisplay())
		if item.get_type() == gmenu.TYPE_DIRECTORY and len(item.get_contents()):
			return True

This code has one known bug: if all of the items in a menu are hidden it should be hidden too. For a solution to this look at Alacarte 0.9's /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py

Thank you so much for the tips! I am about to release the next version, I will try to include your code in this release+1. Thank you again..

New release

Ver 0.25-1 Jul 27 23:00 (GMT -4) * Border added * Able to configure border size and color * Able to set pane order in /apps/pane_order * Added swap generic name and app name * No more zombie apps * Entry focus fixed * Double entries in 'All applications' removed * Now lists kde and other apps previously missing * No more %U problems * Added setting item to 'All Applications'

Known bug : Sometimes hiding 'Places' also hides 'Applications'.... will fix later

When you all have it configured properly, post screenshots.. I am writing a site for UCC and USP and I need some screenies

Chanders

Unfortunately, this one isn't working for me. :( When I add it to my panel all I see is a small DOT that I can't select. I saw this same behavior on one of your first versions but that went away later.

I can remove the dot by dragging the entire panel to the side instead of top of the screen at which point it shows up I can then right-click it to lock it in place or unlock it but that's it. I removed it, and when I try to add it now, it just blows up.

Yeap, he's working on it....

Well, I'm not really sure what "Ver 0.26-1 Jul 23:25:00 (GMT -4)" means about fixing a no KDE dir... whatever as I'm running Gnome... but this version appears to be working fine.

I still wish I had transparency though. (hint) :)

mattisking said: Unfortunately, this one isn't working for me. :( When I add it to my panel all I see is a small DOT that I can't select. I saw this same behavior on one of your first versions but that went away later.

I can remove the dot by dragging the entire panel to the side instead of top of the screen at which point it shows up I can then right-click it to lock it in place or unlock it but that's it. I removed it, and when I try to add it now, it just blows up. I confirm seeing this with version 0.26-1.

agurk said: I confirm seeing this with version 0.26-1.

Install 0.27 and logout/log back in.... let me know if it works...

Working for me.

Looking good Chanders

One thing I have noticed is USP is still sitting behind my gnome panel. It seems to sit infront of the panel until I close the "add to panel" window. After that it sits under the panel again.

Im using a panel of 48px high and USP .27-1.

Another thing that would be good to have is make the "System" button grow in height when a panel does so are equal height.

Keep going its getting better and better.

Z

Great updates! I have a few complaints which may have been mentioned already, but I'm too tired to remember.

1. The icons in the places pane aren't lined up perfectly.
2. It would be nice if you could make the panes auto-resize to fit long text (I know you can change the font, but still.)
3. I really want the search field to auto-clear.
4. Apps that I had hid from the gnome menu show up here (maybe that will be taken care of if you use gmenu)
5. The menu appears to be pinned whether or not the pin button is selected.
6. It's just too damn pretty. WTF!

P.S. I'm also waiting on the edge of my seat for a default layout setting.

chanders said: Install 0.27 and logout/log back in.... let me know if it works...

Yep, works now, thanks! The USP button doesn't adhere to the opacity level set for the panel though (see pic). Oh, and the Screen Resolution button text did not show my resolution until I had run the screen res selection app once.

Thanks for the new release.

But i still having some problem with my GNOME icon theme. [[img]http://pix.nofrag.com/d0/ae/5abab79760ea40b574fea23c4061t.jpg[/img]](http://pix.nofrag.com/d0/ae/5abab79760ea40b574fea23c4061.html)

Is anybody have the same problem or, could tell me if he have the same when he put the GNOME theme icon ? Edit : i asked to some people (2), they say they have the same.

Very nice! It looks much more polished now!

Could you just please add an option to gconf that could remembers if All Applications are selected? I don't use the favorite applications part and this would be a very nice finishing touch. :)

For all those using the Gilouche theme - set the border colors to (59637, 55705, 48496) if you want to have the border somewhat darker but still in theme with the background or put in (24914, 36061, 45896) if you want to have it like SLAB (blue).

If anybody needs I type a little tutorial here on how to get these colors (it's the same for custom_color and custom_heading_color)...

If anybody needs I type a little tutorial here on how to get these colors (it's the same for custom_color and custom_heading_color)...

Reply With QuotePlease do...

I ahven't gotten to install this yet, grr... but there is someting I've noticed from the screenshots... the 'Quit' text doesn't line up with the other two above it... It's looking great though otherwise.

I thought the whole idea started with novell doing research to see exactly what makes the best usability. Is it really a good idea to deviate from that just for the sake of being innovative and unlike suse ?

fuoco said: I thought the whole idea started with novell doing research to see exactly what makes the best usability. Is it really a good idea to deviate from that just for the sake of being innovative and unlike suse ?

Of course, it's a good idea to create our own pannel ! And the choice always do linux better.

HOW TO GET THE COLOR YOU WANT FOR YOUR BORDER (or else colors in this format)

[IMG]http://diego.aureal.com.pe/wp-content/uploads/wii.png[/IMG]

1. Choose which color you want to use on your desktop, a web site, a screenshot or something else. I'll be using a SLAB screenshot for this one.

(either clicking or typing "O" on the keyboard) and select the blue border color. After you do that the Color Picker will pop up with some information. The important information are the percentages (Red, Green and Blue - if you don't have the percentages select RGB from the drop down menus).

1. Now open up gimp and load up this image. Now, use the color selection tool

In my example Red is at 38% so you have to multiply 65535 by 0.38 and you get 24903,3 - just round it up to the smaller or bigger number, I usually take the bigger one so I get 24904 for Red. Do the same for the other colors.

1. Fire up your Calculator and make the calculations yourself. You have to multiply 65535 with the percentage of the color.

1. Input the colors in the same orders (Red, then Green, then Blue) into the field in the gconf utility.

That's it! :)

agurk said: Yep, works now, thanks! The USP button doesn't adhere to the opacity level set for the panel though (see pic).

Oh, and the Screen Resolution button text did not show my resolution until I had run the screen res selection app once.

I've just fixed this and Chanders will release it when he comes online ;)

Another great improvement chanders.

Just got the new version. It's looking great. Something I notcied on two machines is that if I log off or shutdown with programs open I get a message saying that X doesn't support session saving.

I think it is related to the panel. Maybe you could look into it. Has anyone else noticed this?

Ironfistchamp

Hells_Dark said: Thanks for the new release.

But i still having some problem with my GNOME icon theme. [[img]http://pix.nofrag.com/d0/ae/5abab79760ea40b574fea23c4061t.jpg[/img]](http://pix.nofrag.com/d0/ae/5abab79760ea40b574fea23c4061.html)

Is anybody have the same problem or, could tell me if he have the same when he put the GNOME theme icon ? Edit : i asked to some people (2), they say they have the same. So what's about this ? There is this bug with a lot of themes, that's quite important, isn't it ? :sad:

PS: i was already talking about it here.

Another screenshot to visualize problems : [[img]http://pix.nofrag.com/20/aa/67a5871d011a2fda963e44b07129t.jpg[/img]](http://pix.nofrag.com/20/aa/67a5871d011a2fda963e44b07129.html)

(I just ask if that's a priority, i know Chanders is sooo busy ;-) )

This is by far the fastest I've seen development on a program that is very usable.

I will have to get the newest version tonight (since I'm about 3 or so behind now), when I get home.

Keep up the good work chanders!

An idea for the tall panel height problem: Is there a gconf entry that specifies the height of the gnome-panel? If there is, couldn't you read that entry, and then have it draw the menu starting from that height location? From the little GTK I know, I'm sure that you can control where the window goes with coordinates.

(Opened up X forwarded ssh to find info)

Ok, that's way to slow for me to use to find useful stuff.

Back to the idea. Once you read the panel height, you'd also have to read the panel location and then draw the offset accordingly, who knows, someone may have a really thick panel at the top, odd to me, but useful to them.

Sorry for the randomness in the idea, I was trying to inline prove some of the concepts, but couldn't as ssh with -X is slow at my office for my work computer.

EDIT: (To clean up the idea after slowly searching around gconf-editor for a fifth time) 1 - On add to panel, USP sets a gconf key telling itself what panel it is set on 2 - On add to panel/panel size change, USP (re)sets a gconf key telling itself the height of the panel 3 - USP sets menu offset coordinates based upon the above 2 items (also gconf keys so it knows what to load on login/logout) 4 - User click will draw menu offset from panel as it knows what to do

I'll keep researching this option.

Icon loading code: (never tested, based on alacarte's code)

def getIcon(item):
	pixbuf = None
	if item == None:
		return None
	if isinstance(item, str):
		iconName = item
	else:
		iconName = item.get_icon()
	if iconName and not '/' in iconName and iconName[-3:] in ('png', 'svg', 'xpm'):
		iconName = iconName[:-4]
	icon_theme = gtk.icon_theme_get_default()
	try:
		pixbuf = icon_theme.load_icon(iconName, 24, 0)
	except:
		if iconName and '/' in iconName:
			try:
				pixbuf = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file_at_size(iconName, 24, 24)
			except:
				pass
		if pixbuf == None:
			if item.get_type() == gmenu.TYPE_DIRECTORY:
				iconName = 'gnome-fs-directory'
			elif item.get_type() == gmenu.TYPE_ENTRY:
				iconName = 'application-default-icon'
			try:
				pixbuf = icon_theme.load_icon(iconName, 24, 0)
			except:
				return None
	if pixbuf == None:
		return None
	if pixbuf.get_width() != 24 or pixbuf.get_height() != 24:
		pixbuf = pixbuf.scale_simple(24, 24, gtk.gdk.INTERP_HYPER)
	return pixbuf

Of course to use this as-is you have to be using python-gmenu.

chanders said:

• I Cant really do anything about the missing title other than put a placement like "Edit me!" or something....

You could use the "subtitle" (Name) to become the title (Generic name) and make the "subtitle" (Name) empty, perhaps?

Hi. Just upgraded to 0.27 USP. With reference to my previous posts some comments:

a) Nautilus now behaves properly, doesnt override xfce desktop nor sessions manager; Places now opens ok!

b) Quit.. button still doesn't work.

c) Thunar (and its other .desktop variations) do not open, either as a Favorite in the main panel, or via the application browser. So far this is the only app that does this.

So far those are what I've seen. Otherwise great update, and I hope the above can help in tweaking USP.

Thanks!

_profox said: You could use the "subtitle" (Name) to become the title (Generic name) and make the "subtitle" (Name) empty, perhaps?

This was addressed in 0.27-1, you can now swap between Name and Generic name, so no more spaces :D

LordMau said: Hi. Just upgraded to 0.27 USP. With reference to my previous posts some comments:

a) Nautilus now behaves properly, doesnt override xfce desktop nor sessions manager; Places now opens ok!

b) Quit.. button still doesn't work.

c) Thunar (and its other .desktop variations) do not open, either as a Favorite in the main panel, or via the application browser. So far this is the only app that does this.

So far those are what I've seen. Otherwise great update, and I hope the above can help in tweaking USP.

Thanks!

• Quit will not work as USP is using gnome's logout command. If you can tell me what is the command to logout of the XFCE desktop I could probably include it..
• Post the lines in your thunar.desktop file here so I can look at it.. (without the translations so it will be smaller)

chanders said: This was addressed in 0.27-1, you can now swap between Name and Generic name, so no more spaces :D

Yeah, that's great ! But there is a bug : When we edit the labels, it switch automatically..

chanders said: This was addressed in 0.27-1, you can now swap between Name and Generic name, so no more spaces :D

Oh, sorry ;) I was reading all 21 pages and came across this in the middle.. Anyway, you're razing along with development! And you listen to your userbase alot. Very good :) very good :)

I am hacking into the python code a little bit to try to fix some bugs and/or add some functionality, but I'm not very experienced with python yet :) but it's a good way to learn.

About the website; is it taken care of? Is 25GB bandwidth/month enough? Then I can probably create and host a website for you on my hosting :)

Hells_Dark said: Yeah, that's great !

But there is a bug : When we edit the labels, it switch automatically..

Ahh.. oversight... will be fixed in the next release..

chanders said:

• Quit will not work as USP is using gnome's logout command. If you can tell me what is the command to logout of the XFCE desktop I could probably include it..

Not sure if I can tell the command, may ask around, but I'm not sure there's any difference between gnome and xfce logout. Curious though as the default Gnome Menu and gnome-main-menu/slab/uslab logout/exit button work fine.

chanders said:

• Post the lines in your thunar.desktop file here so I can look at it.. (without the translations so it will be smaller)

Here's the default one:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Thunar File Manager
<snip>
Comment=Browse the filesystem with the file manager
<snip>
GenericName=File Manager
<snip>
Exec=Thunar %F
Icon=Thunar
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Type=Application
Categories=Application;System;Utility;Core;GTK;FileManager;

# vi:set encoding=UTF-8:
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=Thunar

Here's the one in the .usp folder:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Thunar File Manager
Comment=Browse the filesystem with the file manager
Exec=Thunar %F
Icon=Thunar
GenericName=File Manager
Terminal=false

Also launching via nautilus or thunar the .desktop file in .usp also successfully launches Thuanr.

Thanks.

Ok just as a test, remove the %F in the file in .usp folder... Remove the applet and re-add it.. Tell me if it works...

I think I have the hosting all patched up with 50gb per month, however I have another site running on the server so we will see how good it holds up. Just send the stuff over when your ready chanders. i'll put it up at zephyrwood.org/chanders

Note360 said: I think I have the hosting all patched up with 50gb per month, however I have another site running on the server so we will see how good it holds up. Just send the stuff over when your ready chanders. i'll put it up at zephyrwood.org/chanders

Excellent... New release in a few hrs ;)

Here's something, perhaps not related directly to USP... I notice some of my apps when favorited, are only one line. If I add Rhythm Box for example, it shows in the menu like:

Music Player Rhythm Box Music Player

But, if I certain other apps like, Blender, it only shows:

Blender 3D modeller

and, the text appears as if it is the second line and the first line is blank. So, is there a way to fix this either by: A. adding the appropriate text for items missing it. B. removing the first line from the ones that do have it. C. centering the ones that don't so it's inline with the icon

BTW, I switched from Slab to USP this morning... far enough along now I like it better.

BTW 2.0, Congratulations on getting your own forums for USP and UCC!

gruvsyco said: Here's something, perhaps not related directly to USP... I notice some of my apps when favorited, are only one line. If I add Rhythm Box for example, it shows in the menu like:

Music Player Rhythm Box Music Player

But, if I certain other apps like, Blender, it only shows:

Blender 3D modeller

and, the text appears as if it is the second line and the first line is blank. So, is there a way to fix this either by: A. adding the appropriate text for items missing it. B. removing the first line from the ones that do have it. C. centering the ones that don't so it's inline with the icon

BTW, I switched from Slab to USP this morning... far enough along now I like it better.

BTW 2.0, Congratulations on getting your own forums for USP and UCC!

Thanks!

Ok, two ways to solve your problem...

1. Right click on the item, select edit, and enter the labels yourself
2. In gconf-editor, check swap_generic_name (that way you wont have any blanks ;-) )

augied said: Feature request/suggestion: Have the places section work with the gtk-bookmarks file. The syntax of the file is a little different from the places.list file that is currently used, but I don't think it would be too hard to do (that said, I I'm not sure how to do it.)

Where is the gtk-bookmarks file? I can't find it :confused:

chanders said: Thanks!

Ok, two ways to solve your problem...

1. Right click on the item, select edit, and enter the labels yourself
2. In gconf-editor, check swap_generic_name (that way you wont have any blanks ;-) )

Thanks that worked but I just realized something else now... "All Applications" is not showing all my applications now. They still show in the original Gnome Menu and are available via Alt-F1

Are thay showing any at all? Applications that dont have proper .desktop files are not shown (for now) I will have to fix that later

_profox said: Where is the gtk-bookmarks file? I can't find it :confused:

Seems like Nautilus doesn't make use of this file for its locations.

I was working on an option to "sync with nautilus locations" but it seems like the nautilus locations aren't very user configurable by default. Maybe you mean something else with the gtk-bookmarks file? what do you have in the file? It could be that you added some custom stuff somewhere..

But since this certainly isn't the case for most people, I think I am going to do it like this:

When you open the new USP the first time it will check wether you already have places or not, if you have no places, these default places will be added automatically:

Default places is: desktop, home folder, computer, cd/dvd, networkservers

If you already have places, your places will remain the same.

But: 2 new options will also be added to the right click menu of "Places" edit: this will be a new popup menu when you right click the LABEL Places

• Clear all places [needs confirmation]
• Add default places

The first option will clear all your places, and the second option will append the default places to your current places.

Is this a good way to solve this? Now the only thing I'm looking for is an easy way to find the information I need. Are those default locations saved somewhere? They are taken from the default ubuntu menu -> locations, but I don't know where it gets its info from...

Edit: think I found it, give me some time

chanders said: Are thay showing any at all? Applications that dont have proper .desktop files are not shown (for now) I will have to fix that later

Yes it does show some apps. Come to think of it, an early version of your USP that opened a window to an apps folder, I think was missing these same apps so, likely they don't have a proper .desktop file associated with them.

This is really great. I have a few feature requests, though. First off, I think it ought to behave like the gnome-menu does with respect to when you click off it. When I want to close the gnome-menu, I never re-click the menu icon; i just click somewhere else on the screen and the menu closes. I think USP should do the same thing. Also, I like the "quick find" feature for applications, but it would be nice to be able to operate the entire thing from the keyboard. Here's an example:

The way it works now: you click in the quick find box, you type whatever you want, you click the option(s) that appear above.

The way I think it should work: you click in the quick find box, you type whatever you want, you either press enter (if there is only one result) and the program opens, or you choose which result you want with arrow keys and press enter.

I think these things would do a lot for functionality, and I bet other people would agree too. Thanks for all the hard work you're putting in to this.

dcubed20 said: This is really great. I have a few feature requests, though. First off, I think it ought to behave like the gnome-menu does with respect to when you click off it. When I want to close the gnome-menu, I never re-click the menu icon; i just click somewhere else on the screen and the menu closes.

This should happen with USP too, IF you have the Pin button in the off state (small button in the upper left corner) Try it, if it doesn't work, you are the 2nd person that has experienced this. This shouldn't happen if the Pin button is off.

dcubed20 said: Also, I like the "quick find" feature for applications, but it would be nice to be able to operate the entire thing from the keyboard. Here's an example:

The way it works now: you click in the quick find box, you type whatever you want, you click the option(s) that appear above.

The way I think it should work: you click in the quick find box, you type whatever you want, you either press enter (if there is only one result) and the program opens, or you choose which result you want with arrow keys and press enter. This is already in the feature list :) In the future it's probably going to be user configurable. Atleast if chanders finds the time to program all these wishes, AND fix the little bugs ;) But he's doing his very best.

I have to catch some sleep now, but the 'auto populate' for the places menu, when it's empty, should be done tomorrow :) maybe in some hours if I can't sleep. (It's late here)

_profox said: This should happen with USP too, IF you have the Pin button in the off state (small button in the upper left corner) Try it, if it doesn't work, you are the 2nd person that has experienced this. This shouldn't happen if the Pin button is off.

Oh so thats what that does. Lol, thanks.

This is already in the feature list :) In the future it's probably going to be user configurable. Atleast if chanders finds the time to program all these wishes, AND fix the little bugs ;) But he's doing his very best.

I didn't see it in the list, but that's good to know. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to rush chanders, and I really appreciate all the hard work he is putting into it. I thought I'd contribute my two cents, that's all.

Ver 0.28-1 28 Jul 21:30:00 (GMT -4)

• Applet follows panel transparency settings (Thanks the_thunderbird)
• Search entry set to auto-clear when clicked
• Icon theme problems fixed
• 'Quit' text mis-alignment fixed
• Fixed bug when entry was edited and swap_generic was set
• Filter now includes application command name
• 'Filter' label removed
• 'More Applications' button repositioned and white space removed
• Now accepts color in the format #RRGGBB (Thanks PsyberOne)

Notes: See 'currently working on' thread to know what is in the pipeline Add your wishlist to the 'What I would like to see' thread Add screenshots to 'Screenshots' thread

What happened?

Note360 said: What happened?

Huh? ;)

i think he just woke up after a big night with lots of alcohol and doesn't know where he is :p

@Note360 You mean getting the forum dont you :)

Ya I went to see a Jazz Saxaphonist and eat and stuff for the past 4 hours and I have no Idea what is going on with the forums I come back and I am like wtf

Note360 said: Ya I went to see a Jazz Saxaphonist and eat and stuff for the past 4 hours and I have no Idea what is going on with the forums I come back and I am like wtf

Tell me about it ;) Now we have our own little place to do all the configuring and tinkering that we like...

Lol without Viper

Note360 said: Lol without Viper:lol::-\"

dang my panel border wotn change colour

Remove it and add it again.

Er thanks that was a stupid problem

Ver 0.29 out (fixes window settings especially for compiz users)

ummm... bugs r back (looks mostly like gconf stuff)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1517, in ?
    menu_factory(app, None)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1508, in menu_factory
    MenuWin(applet, iid)
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1373, in __init__
    self.mainwin = MainWindow()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 93, in __init__
    self.Todos()
  File "/usr/bin/usp", line 584, in Todos
    openfile = open(self.get_file_path(path), 'r')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/darkmatter/.local/share/applications/googleearth.desktop'

chanders said: Ver 0.29 out (fixes window settings especially for compiz users)

where can this gotten from?

delfick said: where can this gotten from?

There should be a separate thread for releases and release notes

just found it...the first post of this thread....:D

thnx Chanders...it wobbles again :D

chanders said: Ok just as a test, remove the %F in the file in .usp folder...

Remove the applet and re-add it.. Tell me if it works...

Great that worked! Thanks. Hope you can also check out the logout/ exit button thing.

Hi,

Thanks for the new release. My Gnome Theme icon is supported :)

Anyway, i still have a size problem with it : [[img]http://pix.nofrag.com/54/64/996caaa6844f6e6c673b0f58c8eet.jpg[/img]](http://pix.nofrag.com/54/64/996caaa6844f6e6c673b0f58c8ee.html)

(i'll post it in the bugs topic ;))

But, that's a really good job Chanders ;)

Edit : and what about the languistic support ? How to translate the app' ?

Languistic support is also planned for the future :) but we have a very big wishlist that is being added to daily ;) hmm.. I think we should make a little php page so people can vote for the most wanted features/wishes.

_profox said: Languistic support is also planned for the future :) but we have a very big wishlist that is being added to daily ;) hmm.. I think we should make a little php page so people can vote for the most wanted features/wishes.

Ok, thanks :) My main wish remains the bugs suppression ^_^ And this ugly size icon problem, i talked about earlier.

Hey guys, I need some help, so I can continue with the auto-population.

The only thing I miss is the cd/dvd right now. I don't know where the gnome menu gets that information from. It doesn't appear when unmounted, so how does it know? Someone please enlighten me.

Maybe I can check "mount" and find iso9660 and use that mount point to create a .desktop file? would this be a good solution?

I came across some bugs: + Can't drag desktop to places (Fixed! Also fixed icon. See below.) + The ".." delimiter that is used when place/app names are too large doesn't care about the font size or about the width of the letters ~ low priority + Can't drag cd drives from Computer into USP + cd drives dragged from menu have no correct icon And the "ghost icon drag" bug is still flying across the screen ;) :(

In my auto populate function I also ran into a problem. I'm searching for a good way to find all cd/dvd devices attached to the computer. Until then I'm stuck here. But I will auto populate with "Home, Desktop, Computer and Network servers" in one of the following releases :) cd/dvd devices maybe later. (when I find some info for the cd/dvd devices)

Here is the fix so you can drag the desktop: I hope it's clean enough :)

(manually delete the lines with - and add the lines with +, i used diff so it is more clear in which context you need to change things, paste the code in an editor that supports syntax highlighting for .diff files, like gedit, and use diff highlighting (or save as a .diff file) and you will see in colors what you need to change)

EDIT: Removed patch. See next post.

I modified the source code to add 4 places if you start the program for the first time (if you have none that is)

I also want to create a popupmenu. Rightclick on the label "Places" ~ Clear all (backs up current places.list and /places to places.backup and /places-backup, then removes places.list and /places, then removes all the places buttons) ~ Restore cleared (removes current places.list and /places and places the backups back, and reloads the places buttons) ~ Add default places (appends 4 default places like happens in my code below to the current places)

I am able to write the code for this, but I'm not sure how/where to add the code for the popupmenu. I'm a rookie in Python :) 1 day now, but I like Python, and I love the way you HAVE to structurize your sourcecode :)

And I still have the second problem, but I will just leave it as it is for now, with the CD/DVD devices. I'm not sure what's the best way to obtain all CD/DVD devices attached.

----

Patch Description: On startup we check wether there are places or not. If there are none, 4 default places (5 if you count the space) get added automatically. (home, desktop, [space], computer, network servers)

Includes the fix of my previous post so you can add the Desktop entry to your Places

Includes the fix of my previous post so you can hardcode other icon entries for directories (like we did for Desktop)

Attached patch:

--- usp	2006-07-29 05:43:27.000000000 +0200
+++ usp	2006-07-29 17:58:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -148,8 +148,16 @@
 
         PlacesFile = open (os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".usp/places.list"),"r")
         PlacesList = PlacesFile.readlines()
-        for i in range(len(PlacesList)):
-            self.Add_Button(PlacesList[i][:-1],"place",True)
+        if len(PlacesList) == 0:
+            print "Empty places.list: Populating"
+            self.Add_Button("/usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop","place",False)
+	    self.Add_Button(os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"),"Desktop"),"place",False,"gnome-fs-desktop")
+	    self.Add_Button("space","place",False)
+            self.Add_Button("/usr/share/applications/nautilus-computer.desktop","place",False)
+	    self.Add_Button("/usr/share/applications/network-scheme.desktop","place",False)
+        else:
+            for i in range(len(PlacesList)):
+                self.Add_Button(PlacesList[i][:-1],"place",True)
 
         ApplicationsFile = open (os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".usp/applications.list"),"r")
         ApplicationsList = ApplicationsFile.readlines()
@@ -456,6 +464,9 @@
         return True
 
     def got_data(self, widget, context, x, y, selection, targetType, timestamp):
+        customIcon = ""
         if widget.name == "scrolledwindow1":
             Add_to = "application"
         if widget.name == "scrolledwindow2":
@@ -472,9 +483,12 @@
         if selection.data[:-2] == 'x-nautilus-desktop:///network':
             data = '/usr/share/applications/network-scheme.desktop'
             specialcase = True
-
+        if selection.data == 'Desktop':
+            data = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"),"Desktop")
+            specialcase = True
+            customIcon = "gnome-fs-desktop"
         if specialcase:
-            self.Add_Button(self.get_file_path(data),Add_to,False)
+            self.Add_Button(self.get_file_path(data),Add_to,False,customIcon)
         else:
             self.Add_Button(self.get_file_path(selection.data),Add_to,False)
 
@@ -676,7 +690,7 @@
 
 
 
-    def Add_Button(self,selection,where,Init):
+    def Add_Button(self,selection,where,Init,customIcon=""):
 
         PlaceName=PlaceComment=PlaceExec=PlaceIconName=GenericName=WhatWasDropped=""
         FileExists=False
@@ -915,7 +929,11 @@
 
                 print PlaceName
                 PlaceExec = "nautilus "+ self.get_file_path(selection)
-                PlaceIconName = "gnome-fs-directory"
+		if customIcon == "":
+		    PlaceIconName = "gnome-fs-directory"
+		else:
+		    PlaceIconName = customIcon
+
                 PlaceIcon = self.get_proper_icon(PlaceIconName,icon_size)
 
                 Button1 = gtk.Button(Button_Name,"ok",True)

_profox said: I modified the source code to add 4 places if you start the program for the first time (if you have none that is)

I also want to create a popupmenu. Rightclick on the label "Places" ~ Clear all (backs up current places.list and /places to places.backup and /places-backup, then removes places.list and /places, then removes all the places buttons) ~ Restore cleared (removes current places.list and /places and places the backups back, and reloads the places buttons) ~ Add default places (appends 4 default places like happens in my code below to the current places)

I am able to write the code for this, but I'm not sure how/where to add the code for the popupmenu. I'm a rookie in Python :) 1 day now, but I like Python, and I love the way you HAVE to structurize your sourcecode :)

And I still have the second problem, but I will just leave it as it is for now, with the CD/DVD devices. I'm not sure what's the best way to obtain all CD/DVD devices attached.

----

Patch Description: On startup we check wether there are places or not. If there are none, 4 default places (5 if you count the space) get added automatically. (home, desktop, [space], computer, network servers)

Includes the fix of my previous post so you can add the Desktop entry to your Places

Includes the fix of my previous post so you can hardcode other icon entries for directories (like we did for Desktop)

Good work.. I will try to implement it in the next release.. It seems a lot of people have gripes with the way the All Applications section works/sorts, so I am going to focus on getting this working before any more cosmetic items are done.

Feel free however to hack the code and come up with new and interesting ideas.. I will need them when I am ready to continue with the layout/looks ;)

I have one question how did you make it I mean where did you start and how did you make a panel applet? It all seems so impossible to me.

Note360 said: I have one question how did you make it I mean where did you start and how did you make a panel applet? It all seems so impossible to me.

Hours and hours of digging and asking... The hardest part and the one tha really gets me angry is that we have all of this technology and no documentation for it...

I will gladly write a howto but I really hope the GNOME devs are listening! and in the words of the_thunderbird "Shame on you GNOME devs!!"

Hey if you want to document your adventures that would be great and also be a great insight on how to do something like this and would become a very nice learning tool

BUT for now please concentrate at working on this.

I didn't know Python was this fun ;) and it's pretty straight-forward :) I've been using it for 1 day now :D I love this language.

---- And now some real news ;) ----

Fixed another bug! Applications that needed = in their filename (example: evolution --component=mail) would stop working after they were edited by the EditDialog. The EditDialog didn't correctly read out lines with multiple ='s

EDIT: I changed the patch to be a few microseconds FASTER :) The old code is commented out, you don't have to include it anymore

Patch:

--- usp	2006-07-29 05:43:27.000000000 +0200
+++ usp	2006-07-29 21:44:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@
         #Get the actual dialog widget
         self.dlg = self.wTree.get_widget("dialog1")
 
-        self.wTree.get_widget("entry2").set_text(Data[2][:-1].split("=")[1])
-        self.wTree.get_widget("entry3").set_text(Data[6][:-1].split("=")[1])
-        self.wTree.get_widget("entry4").set_text(Data[3][:-1].split("=")[1])
-        self.wTree.get_widget("entry5").set_text(Data[4][:-1].split("=")[1])
-        self.wTree.get_widget("entry6").set_text(Data[5][:-1].split("=")[1])
+        self.wTree.get_widget("entry2").set_text(Data[2][:-1][Data[2][:-1].find("=")+1:])
+        self.wTree.get_widget("entry3").set_text(Data[6][:-1][Data[6][:-1].find("=")+1:])
+        self.wTree.get_widget("entry4").set_text(Data[3][:-1][Data[3][:-1].find("=")+1:])
+        self.wTree.get_widget("entry5").set_text(Data[4][:-1][Data[4][:-1].find("=")+1:])
+        self.wTree.get_widget("entry6").set_text(Data[5][:-1][Data[5][:-1].find("=")+1:])
 
         #run the dialog and store the response
         self.result = self.dlg.run()

Function from the old code, but you DO NOT need this anymore! :)

@@ -58,6 +58,19 @@
         self.dlg.destroy()
         return GotData
 
+# (debug)
+# I optimized this code by using .find instead of split.
+# directly in the code above (def run)
+#
+# Please remove these comments
+# if the new method works better
+#
+#    def GetAllData(self,Data):
+#	strResult=""
+#	for i in range(len(Data.split("="))-1):
+#	    strResult = strResult + Data.split("=")[i+1]
+#
+#	return strResult
 
 class MainWindow:
     """This is the main class for the application"""

Really nice _profox :)

If you could find an answer for my bug... To visualise it, just take the GNOME icon theme, and you'll see.

I would like to start to make python too.. It's a pretty language :P. I don't know where to start.

Lol i feel so behind I have been reading through the official Python manual for a couple of days now. (I am a failure) Lol. but seriously how did you progress so fast?

Note360 said: Lol i feel so behind I have been reading through the official Python manual for a couple of days now. (I am a failure) Lol. but seriously how did you progress so fast?

Dont be fooled. Python is easy *if you have done programming before*. Have you done any programming before?

I am happy that profox is able to work out some of the bugs while I work on the important things. What programming background do you have profox? Keep up the good work (and document your patches well). I am nearly through with the gmenu (Yay!) so we could hopefully expect a new release...hmmmmm.... today? ;)

so we could hopefully expect a new release...hmmmmm.... today? Gimme....

Yes, I've done programming before. But I'm ashamed to admit that it was on Windows with Visual Basic.

My last projects were my own multisock webserver + web interpreter language and my own multisock messenger server + clients

I read 0 documentation about Python, I just opened the source and tried to understand it. If you've done programming. Alot of things in the source make sense. It's not a complicated language.

When I encounter a problem, or I want to write some code myself, I just search Google, or I visit the official Python documentations, that's what I did to improve my previous patch, and I found String Methods. Which is a very nice/flexible thing by the way! Python rocks

I am planning to borrow/buy a Python book sometime soon, but for now, I'm just hacking and getting familiar with the code, and it's turning out well. I can't do complicated tasks, but I will be able to solve some small bugs and maybe even program some small wishes.

I'm nothing compared to chanders when it comes to programming in Python, because I have to relearn a whole new language, but because I have done programming before I have the ability to analyse and debug, and that's the most important thing in programming.

@chanders, I really do use too many smilies don't I? "You have included 9 images in your message. You are limited to using 8 images so please go back and correct the problem and then continue again." Just because of that: a smilie-less post now :) (pun intended)

Ya I know some basic Perl but I left that for Python. What really gets me is OO Programming.

Oh I think I am going to join the project it is probably the best thing for me. So let me at it (or more correctly) please let me get into a elevator with padding bring me up to the top level of the tower of terror and drop me at freefall while have some one banging coconuts they got off a swallow with a low wing velocity behind me.

(lol one of the reasons I want to learn python is because of monty python)

Which is a very good reason! :) Monty python for teh win !! ;) Anyway, most source code is available after installation here:

/usr/bin/usp

So to get your paws/hands on it, here's what I do:

I make a copy of it: sudo cp /usr/bin/usp /usr/bin/uspx

And I start hacking by opening uspx in a text editor like "gedit", but I'm going to try out something else soon. Chanders uses "easyeclipse for python"

That's all you need, basically. The Glade file for the GUI can be found in /usr/share/usp/usp.glade But I haven't worked with that yet

After you made some changes, just save the uspx file (you don't need to close the editor ofcourse) and then to try it out, execute this command:

/usr/bin/uspx run-in-window

It will create a new window with the button, so you can still use your real USP (which runs as /usr/bin/usp)

good luck :)

k sounds good but we should set some sort of thing up where we all decide to fix certaint bugs because if we all start fixing the same bug its pointless.

dang, I have to reinstall cause I was fooling around with Xubuntu and it uninstalled all my c gnome packages (I was trying to get gnome applets in xfce). This sucks.

a bugtraq would be nice, yes... you were working on the site, right? create a bugzilla or launchpad page or something like that :)

Are there any more bugs that you would like to see fixed? Try some things and let me know! :) I want to fix some (easy) bugs ;)

Oh I didnt work on the site yet. Er I have to back up I'll be back tomorrow.

_profox said: Are there any more bugs that you would like to see fixed? Try some things and let me know! :) I want to fix some (easy) bugs ;)

My bug, my bug ^^ http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1314048&postcount=5 That's probably an easy bug, isn't it ? There's a size icon bug with a lot of themes :)

Hells_Dark said: My bug, my bug ^^

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1314048&postcount=5 That's probably an easy bug, isn't it ? There's a size icon bug with a lot of themes :)

LOL... I think this is a theme bug.. In fact I am SURE it is a theme dependant bug but _profox can take a look if he's bored ;)

chanders said: LOL... I think this is a theme bug.. In fact I am SURE it is a theme dependant bug but _profox can take a look if he's bored ;)

Yes, but you are rewriting this piece of code with gmenu... So I better wait for the next version :)

Anyway, just ask about bugs in the bugs thread :) I will check there for the bugs

Perhaps the following link to a learning how to program in Python course published on the web & downloadable too! Will be of use to someone, who has become inpired by this thread to take up Python developement?

I am constantly amazed by how we continuely effect each other by our actions... Most often without any intention to do so, or any idea that we have done so!?

Eh! Chanders? :KS

New Release 0.30 on the 30th ;)

Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:44:10 -0400

• Fixed 'All Applications' to follow GNOME menu
• Added option to show 'All Applications' from start
• Added option to filter/not filter application on entry
• Places now auto populate if empty (thanks profox)
• Entry always gets focus on USP open
• Fixed evolution '=' bug (thanks profox)
• USP now auto-apply settings when changed in gconf-editor
• Added option for Toggle icons
• Added option to hide Toggle bar
• 'Computer' label set higher
• Quit icon changed to match theme
• Removed space between applications and search entry
• Entry grabs focus when USP is open
• Entry auto-clears when USP is closed

I couldnt add all the features (not enough hours in the day ;) but I will continue work tomorrow)

Tip: Try out the toggle button icons...

cool....:D

i like the toggle button icons... and the removal of space between search bar and applications... and the other things you fixed...:D

will it be possible at some stage to be able to add icons to the toggle bar side thing...like the places icons?

that would be cool....

ur menu rocks!

edit: like my (dodgy) mockup here....(basically the places icons on the left) http://delfick755.googlepages.com/icons.png

delfick said: cool....:D

i like the toggle button icons... and the removal of space between search bar and applications... and the other things you fixed...:D

will it be possible at some stage to be able to add icons to the toggle bar side thing...like the places icons?

that would be cool....

ur menu rocks!

edit: like my (dodgy) mockup here....(basically the places icons on the left) http://delfick755.googlepages.com/icons.png

Sure! that would be easy, but what would they be for?

Chanders, I don't know if you have Slab installed but... since you have mostly incorporated the features of its seperate application browser right into USP, I was wondering if you could also add a little more...

right now, if I'm in All Applications on your menu, when I right click on an item I get:

Add to Faovrites

However, when I right click in Slab's App Browser I get:

Start *Application name* ------------------------ Help (or Help Unavailble greyed out) ------------------------ Add to Favorites Add to Startup Programs Upgrade Uninstall

I mostly want the Start App and the add to startup but the others might prove useful to someone else.

Thank you again for this release...

"Swap generic name" will not auto-apply(must restart usp)<--- I don't really mind:)

and if possible at all little bigger icons in "Places"[-o< :grin:

chanders said: Sure! that would be easy, but what would they be for?

becuase i don't like having three panes as that makes the meny look worse than just two panes imho.

i also like having the left "mini-column" with the shutdown, lock screen, and synaptic icons on the bottom and pane togglers on the top though this means there is a big gap between the these icons. So why not add the places icons (or any other icons for that matter) to fill the space?

that way i can still have my places icons and the menu still looks good...:D

(it makes sense to me :D)

gruvsyco said: Chanders, I don't know if you have Slab installed but... since you have mostly incorporated the features of its seperate application browser right into USP, I was wondering if you could also add a little more...

right now, if I'm in All Applications on your menu, when I right click on an item I get:

Add to Faovrites

However, when I right click in Slab's App Browser I get:

Start *Application name* ------------------------ Help (or Help Unavailble greyed out) ------------------------ Add to Favorites Add to Startup Programs Upgrade Uninstall

I mostly want the Start App and the add to startup but the others might prove useful to someone else. Why would you want "start app" when you can just click it? :)

lazyd2 said: Thank you again for this release...

"Swap generic name" will not auto-apply(must restart usp)

and secondly if possible at all little bigger icons in "Places"[-o< :grin: LOL, this is DEFINITELY going to make it in the next release, so dont worry...

LOL, this is DEFINITELY going to make it in the next release, so dont worry...Fantastic.... now I can go to sleep :mrgreen:

chanders said: Why would you want "start app" when you can just click it? :)

Because I accidentally, right clicked instead of left clicked, silly :P

What does "Added option to filter/not filter application on entry" mean?

I have tried enabling / disabling in gconf but can't find any change.

Edit: Worked out what the toggle icon does ;)

delfick said: becuase i don't like having three panes as that makes the meny look worse than just two panes imho.

i also like having the left "mini-column" with the shutdown, lock screen, and synaptic icons on the bottom and pane togglers on the top though this means there is a big gap between the these icons. So why not add the places icons (or any other icons for that matter) to fill the space?

that way i can still have my places icons and the menu still looks good...:D

(it makes sense to me :D)

I'll see what I can do... shouldnt be too difficult...:D

_simon_ said: What does "Added option to filter/not filter application on entry" mean?

I have tried enabling / disabling in gconf but can't find any change.

if /apps/usp/do_not_filter is checked, applications are not filtered when you type

Try leaving the toggle pane open but check /apps/usp/use_toggle_icon and see what you get ;)

chanders said: I'll see what I can do... shouldnt be too difficult...:D

awsome :D

chanders said: if /apps/usp/do_not_filter is checked, applications are not filtered when you type

Try leaving the toggle pane open but check /apps/usp/use_toggle_icon and see what you get ;)

That sort of works for me.

If I have "All Applications" open when i try typing then nothing changes - which is great.

If I have the favourite applications open then it changes to "All Applications"

EDIT: Added to Bugs thread.

chanders said: I'll see what I can do... shouldnt be too difficult...:D

Sounds good but make it so we can toggle it off please (maybe I'll work on it)

Also please report the bugs in the Bugs topic and new Features in the What do you want to see topic please. Thank you very much. You can still post them here, but to make things easier for me to put stuff into the bug tracking topic please post them into bug tracking.

Looking good with 0.30 BTW relative to:

chanders said:

• Quit will not work as USP is using gnome's logout command. If you can tell me what is the command to logout of the XFCE desktop I could probably include it..

I've checked a bit, and so I see that xfce has two relevant commands:

 xfce4-session
 xfce4-session-logout 

xfce4-session more or less is the equivalent to gnome-session. To log out, x-session-manager (linked to xfce-session) calls xfce4-session-logout (I think). Hope this helps in getting USP quit to work on my hybrid system.

Thanks!

LordMau said: Looking good with 0.30 BTW relative to:

I've checked a bit, and so I see that xfce has two relevant commands:

 xfce4-session
 xfce4-session-logout 

xfce4-session more or less is the equivalent to gnome-session. To log out, x-session-manager (linked to xfce-session) calls xfce4-session-logout (I think). Hope this helps in getting USP quit to work on my hybrid system.

Thanks! I didnt know you could run GNOME applets in XFCE :D Well I will include an option to use whatever file manager you choose (Nautilus, konqueror, Thunar.. etc) and your quit command will also be configurable...

actually I use a xfce setup to I dont know why but I do. It is, on my machine, gnome light I have the gnome panel running with USP

Note360 said: actually I use a xfce setup to I dont know why but I do. It is, on my machine, gnome light I have the gnome panel running with USP

The next fix will help you too ;)

Sounds good. Eventually I am going to redo the Ubuntu Control Center for Xubuntu users I just need a list of the apps (I dont use them much).

chanders said: I didnt know you could run GNOME applets in XFCE :D Well I will include an option to use whatever file manager you choose (Nautilus, konqueror, Thunar.. etc) and your quit command will also be configurable...

Well not directly, gnomeapplets still run via gnome-panel. Had to kill xfce-panel to do so, since I just WANTED to run USP ahehe.

Great to hear your considering our inputs. Eagerly awaiting the final ready for primetime version.

Thanks.

He has to consider my input I run to much stuff now. :p

Ok, I finally installed this.. Great App! I've immeadiately removed the default Ubuntu menu's. I've been watching this thread very closely and with much excitement. So, I must start off to say this is an amazing app and I think it will be part of the future of ubuntu. Now's the part where I list my suggestions :) .

1. I don't think System is the best word to have on the bar next to the ubuntu logo to run this app. Sstem applied to administrator related activities in the main Gnome/Ubuntu menu and I think that using this word is somewhat confusing to the user. This may be worth some extra thought but some Ideas I have for it are "Menu", "Go", "Ubuntu"... Also, I remember someone commenting on getting rid of the word all together which may not be a bad idea as well.

1. As a typical user, I have no idea how to populate the Places area in this App. I can't drag things on, so I assume there is another way, however right-clicking provides me with no options, therefore I must assume I cannot edit this Places section which causes me to wonder why the area is so large. (NOTE: I am sure I could dig into the config files behind this app and add things, however I role-playing a typical user).

1. As a typical user, I punch in the file I am looking for into the search field and it doesn't find anything. Also, I am confused by why the applications menu switched. So, I assume that the search doesn't work correctly. Only by accident later do I realize that the search is for finding and application instead.Perhaps this could be remidied by saying "Find Application:".

1. The "Settings" button doesn't match the "Computer" pane, IT should be one of the other.

1. AATU (I'm abbreviating As A TYpical User now :) ) I find a lot of things listed in the "Computer" pane useless. Only on rare occasion would I click the Screen Resolution button which doesn't show my resolution on the Pane anyways (iirc this was already listed as a bug). I don't really need to know what theme I am currently using. It makes more sense for the Control Center link to be listed under System Management as that is what it's really related to. The Date/Time is somewhat useful, as well as Computer. The Network one doesn't work for me as I am using Network Manager (I am using wireless currently and it states "Wired Netork" followed by the next line saying "Device not configured"). The computer one is somewhat useful as well. I say all of this to lead up to an idea. What if, this area was instead used for miscellaneuos plug-ins. I'm picturing an optional Weather Applet showing up, perhaps a stock ticker, also, an actual Beagle file system search utility.

1. AATU, I find this panel very flat looking and have no idea that I can acutally give it a border. A small border by default would look nice. Then, if it were given a small border, it would look nice enough that it could be moved right next to the gnome bar, instead of having a gap between the two.

1. The applet doesn't disappear when I click out of it and it isn't pinned, iirc this was already listed as a bug though.

Well, I hope this feedback helps. Great app and I'm looking forward to seeing where it ends up!

Man, your app is awesome! I immediatelly removed SLED menu after installing yours :p

I liked very much, it's beauty and very usable!

The only thing I can complain is the search.. I think that when you use the search field and it return only one result, it could launch that result when you hit Enter, instead of opening a search tool. Besides that I loved the menu. Using it as default now!

Thanks!

outdooricon said: Ok, I finally installed this.. Great App! I've immeadiately removed the default Ubuntu menu's. I've been watching this thread very closely and with much excitement. So, I must start off to say this is an amazing app and I think it will be part of the future of ubuntu. Now's the part where I list my suggestions :) .

Already taken care of this in a patch, it is configurable in gconf-editor. I will probably release the patch tomorrow.

1. I don't think System is the best word to have on the bar next to the ubuntu logo to run this app. Sstem applied to administrator related activities in the main Gnome/Ubuntu menu and I think that using this word is somewhat confusing to the user. This may be worth some extra thought but some Ideas I have for it are "Menu", "Go", "Ubuntu"... Also, I remember someone commenting on getting rid of the word all together which may not be a bad idea as well.

gconf entries are: button_text and hide_button_text, there's also hide_button_icon, but if you try to hide both, the icon will still be there, you can only hide 1 (otherwise you'll have nothing to click...)

Did you fix that problem we where talking about?

Note360 said: Did you fix that problem we where talking about?

To bring the menu on top of gnome-panel? No, I haven't. I've done some research and I checked the C code of the SLED menu (SLAB), but I haven't come up with a solution yet. Maybe create a seperate developers thread to discuss it :)

get on the irc channel it is faster.

I also forgot to mention one other thing...

1. When using All Applications, if you select one of the menu choiced (like "Games"), it would be nice if there was a selection box around it showing that it was the one currently being viewed.

He's gonna do it on the next release...

hi, i've a problem, in usp, when i click on the control panel icon, the control panel doesn't open....:sad:

originof said: hi, i've a problem, in usp, when i click on the control panel icon, the control panel doesn't open....:sad:

did you install this?

gruvsyco said: did you install this?

thanks :D

outdooricon said: Ok, I finally installed this.. Great App! I've immeadiately removed the default Ubuntu menu's. I've been watching this thread very closely and with much excitement. So, I must start off to say this is an amazing app and I think it will be part of the future of ubuntu. Now's the part where I list my suggestions :) .

Thank you! I Am glad you like it...

outdooricon said:

1. I don't think System is the best word to have on the bar next to the ubuntu logo to run this app. Sstem applied to administrator related activities in the main Gnome/Ubuntu menu and I think that using this word is somewhat confusing to the user. This may be worth some extra thought but some Ideas I have for it are "Menu", "Go", "Ubuntu"... Also, I remember someone commenting on getting rid of the word all together which may not be a bad idea as well.

Agreed! Maybe we could make it configurable? But Menu/Computer will most likelt be the default...

outdooricon said:

1. As a typical user, I have no idea how to populate the Places area in this App. I can't drag things on, so I assume there is another way, however right-clicking provides me with no options, therefore I must assume I cannot edit this Places section which causes me to wonder why the area is so large. (NOTE: I am sure I could dig into the config files behind this app and add things, however I role-playing a typical user).

For places.. pin USP (top right button, See How-To section), Drag items For Applications... Click on All Applications..Right click choose 'Add to favourites' or drag as above

outdooricon said:

1. As a typical user, I punch in the file I am looking for into the search field and it doesn't find anything. Also, I am confused by why the applications menu switched. So, I assume that the search doesn't work correctly. Only by accident later do I realize that the search is for finding and application instead.Perhaps this could be remidied by saying "Find Application:".

An indicator will be placed later.. Right now there is a gconf key to stop the filtering of the applications (Patch to be applied soon)

outdooricon said:

1. The "Settings" button doesn't match the "Computer" pane, IT should be one of the other.

Fixed in the next release ;)

outdooricon said:

1. AATU (I'm abbreviating As A TYpical User now :) ) I find a lot of things listed in the "Computer" pane useless. Only on rare occasion would I click the Screen Resolution button which doesn't show my resolution on the Pane anyways (iirc this was already listed as a bug). I don't really need to know what theme I am currently using. It makes more sense for the Control Center link to be listed under System Management as that is what it's really related to. The Date/Time is somewhat useful, as well as Computer. The Network one doesn't work for me as I am using Network Manager (I am using wireless currently and it states "Wired Netork" followed by the next line saying "Device not configured"). The computer one is somewhat useful as well. I say all of this to lead up to an idea. What if, this area was instead used for miscellaneuos plug-ins. I'm picturing an optional Weather Applet showing up, perhaps a stock ticker, also, an actual Beagle file system search utility.

As you can tell, the "Computer" pane has recieved the least love.. This is because I have big plans for it as soon as we iron out the main apps bugs. It is going to be my pet project. Right now most settings are done via gconf-editor. A configuration panel will arrive shortly... You have to remember USP is only a week old!

Thanks for all your advice. PS: Take a look at /apps/usp in gconf-editor, it has a load of goodies ;)

outdooricon said:

1. AATU, I find this panel very flat looking and have no idea that I can acutally give it a border. A small border by default would look nice. Then, if it were given a small border, it would look nice enough that it could be moved right next to the gnome bar, instead of having a gap between the two.

There should be a default border *scratches head*

outdooricon said:

1. The applet doesn't disappear when I click out of it and it isn't pinned, iirc this was already listed as a bug though.

Well, I hope this feedback helps. Great app and I'm looking forward to seeing where it ends up!

This seems to be a Metacity problem(or you have USP pinned) Currently the window state and type will take priority major projects until we get it sorted..

any news on when your next release will be out? ;)

_simon_ said: any news on when your next release will be out? ;)

I am in the process of moving development from one machine to another (which involves de-windoze xpeeing) and installing Ubuntu. Hopefully I will have it done by this evening and offer a release sometime later on tonight...

@profox - If you wnt me to apply the patches, email them to me so I will review and try to include them I the next release...

Sounds good.

For the next release can you all please submit your bugs to the launchpad(http://www.launchpad.net/products/usp) so we can better organize the whole thing. Thank you.

outdooricon said:

1. I don't think System is the best word to have on the bar next to the ubuntu logo to run this app. Sstem applied to administrator related activities in the main Gnome/Ubuntu menu and I think that using this word is somewhat confusing to the user. This may be worth some extra thought but some Ideas I have for it are "Menu", "Go", "Ubuntu"... Also, I remember someone commenting on getting rid of the word all together which may not be a bad idea as well.

I patched this into the application, see this post with the patch: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1322400&postcount=12

I think that when you use the search field and it return only one result, it could launch that result when you hit Enter, instead of opening a search tool.

How about implementing this?

And another thing, now difficult is to show nautilus bookmarks somewhere?

One thing I noticed is when you hit Alt+F4 (usualy accidentally) it messes up. It closes but it is still open. I could only get it back by removing and readding.

1. AATU, I find this panel very flat looking and have no idea that I can acutally give it a border. A small border by default would look nice. Then, if it were given a small border, it would look nice enough that it could be moved right next to the gnome bar, instead of having a gap between the two.

There should be a default border *scratches head*

There isn't by default, you have to switch it on by hand in gconf-editor: /apps/usp/border_width

ironfistchamp said: One thing I noticed is when you hit Alt+F4 (usualy accidentally) it messes up. It closes but it is still open. I could only get it back by removing and readding.

Please post this bug on https://launchpad.net/products/usp/+bugs

_profox said: Please post this bug on https://launchpad.net/products/usp/+bugs

Bug has been submitted USP stops responding when "Alt"+"F4" are pressed ;)

that is a nasty bug.

Sorry if I missed it, but is there a way to make the menu disappear after launching a program, like the regular menus do? I couldn't find it in the gconf.

EDIT

and can you make it so it disappers if you click off of it?

denisesballs said: Sorry if I missed it, but is there a way to make the menu disappear after launching a program, like the regular menus do? I couldn't find it in the gconf.

EDIT

and can you make it so it disappers if you click off of it?You probabbly have the menu pinned. Try clicking on the liitle button on the top left corner

lazyd2 said: You probabbly have the menu pinned. Try clicking on the liitle button on the top left corner

Yep. I guess I feel like a retard now...

I guess I didn't think it would stay pinned after i closed it. ](*,)

One more thing. Is there a way to have a startup notify when I open something like the original menus do? Spinning mouse, and window list entry?

lol, it happens to everyone from times to times...

denisesballs said: One more thing. Is there a way to have a startup notify when I open something like the original menus do? Spinning mouse, and window list entry?

I don't know, but you can post it in "What I would like to see"...

or better, report it as a bug (type: wish) on our launchpad, so you can track it better, and so we can see everything organized :) https://launchpad.net/products/usp/+bugs

Submitted here - https://launchpad.net/products/usp/+bug/54883

I couldn't find where to define the type as Wishlist though.

denisesballs said: Submitted here - https://launchpad.net/products/usp/+bug/54883

I couldn't find where to define the type as Wishlist though.

That's normal :) me or another dev (chanders, note360) has to set the type.. didn't know you couldn't do it yourself, sorry :) i changed it to wishlist

FYI USP under xfce-panel...

[[IMG]http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6986/xfceusp800aq7.th.png[/IMG]](http://img142.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xfceusp800aq7.png)

For me, using the latest USP, there is a gap between the menu and gnome-panel (see screenshot). Not sure if that is meant to happen, but I think it would be better without the gap. (btw i'm using AIGLX, compiz & cgwd)

Also another small thing. When the menu is open you should e able to close it again by clicking back on the white space or one of the other drop down menus on the gnome-panel.

That's a bug that some people have... including me on my laptop. I am going to research it.

On my install at the shop, there is an almost 10 pixel space between the panel and the menu. I took a screenshot here: http://jessejoe.com/~jesse/Screenshot.png

Yes, I have the same problem on my laptop, I think it's related to bug 54814 https://launchpad.net/products/usp/+bug/54814 what do you think denisesballs?

Regarding the space between the panel and the menu problem, you should check the option "panel_size" in usp(in gconf-editor). See what the numerical value is and set it to 1. Restart usp and everything should be ok.

I've tried it a moment ago and It's great!

This is amazing. Great work. If it's not allready planned, this should be in Ubuntu 6.10.

SishGupta said: This is amazing. Great work.

If it's not allready planned, this should be in Ubuntu 6.10. It's not planned yet. And right now we still have alot of features and bugs to resolve, but I think we can get a good working version by october (edgy eft's release)

If everybody wants it, maybe it will get included! :) We would be honored.. =D>

I checked our current memory footprint and we actually use about 50% less memory than the "Novell Main-Menu (SLAB or USLAB)" And we have a specification set up to improve the speed of our applet (it's not slow, but it can always get faster :))

SishGupta said: This is amazing. Great work.

If it's not allready planned, this should be in Ubuntu 6.10.

TOO RIGHT ! :D

this menu is better than any other menu ever made (even if there are still bugs and functionality still to be added) :D

I think Viper is being included but I am not sure. Maybe, just in the respitories. Then again you cant trust anything he says, that rat.

When we are done with cleaning our code up and cleaning most bugs, the choice should be obvious ;) let the voting begin! ;) (not yet)

I would love to use usp, but I am stuck here:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1720, in ? menu_factory(app, None) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1711, in menu_factory MenuWin(applet, iid) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1543, in __init__ self.mainwin = MainWindow(self) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 140, in __init__ self.Todos() File "/usr/bin/usp", line 760, in Todos PlaceIcon = self.get_proper_icon(datalist[i][5:],icon_size) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 699, in get_proper_icon Image1.set_from_pixbuf(gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(icon_description).scale_simple(width,height,gtk.gdk.INTERP_BILINEAR)) gobject.GError: Image file '/usr/share/pixmaps/deng.png' contains no data

Any idea as to what's going on here?

EDIT: It was hanging on deng.png, which was a 0 byte file, somehow there from a failed Doomsday install.

Is there any way to add a keyboard shortcut, perhaps <Super_L>, to launch the panel?

passonno said: I would love to use usp, but I am stuck here:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1720, in ? menu_factory(app, None) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1711, in menu_factory MenuWin(applet, iid) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1543, in __init__ self.mainwin = MainWindow(self) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 140, in __init__ self.Todos() File "/usr/bin/usp", line 760, in Todos PlaceIcon = self.get_proper_icon(datalist[i][5:],icon_size) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 699, in get_proper_icon Image1.set_from_pixbuf(gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(icon_description).scale_simple(width,height,gtk.gdk.INTERP_BILINEAR)) gobject.GError: Image file '/usr/share/pixmaps/deng.png' contains no data

Any idea as to what's going on here?

EDIT: It was hanging on deng.png, which was a 0 byte file, somehow there from a failed Doomsday install.

Did you remove this 0byte file? It should work fine if you do ;)

passonno said: Is there any way to add a keyboard shortcut, perhaps <Super_L>, to launch the panel?

Will look into it...:)

Chanders, I'm just curious if you're still submitting debs to Quinn's repos. I'm getting my updates from here now but some may not.

gruvsyco said: Chanders, I'm just curious if you're still submitting debs to Quinn's repos. I'm getting my updates from here now but some may not.

I usually post them here first so that major bugs are ironed out and then they are submitted to Quinn..

Just did an update and was pleasantly surprised that USP is now included in xgl.compiz repo. Great!

LordMau said: Just did an update and was pleasantly surprised that USP is now included in xgl.compiz repo. Great!

Pleasing the customer - #1 rule in management ;)

Not that it helps management... I guess the customer wins all around :D

chanders said: Pleasing the customer - #1 rule in management ;)

hmmm...u've definitely achieved that ! :D

This Ubuntu System Panel application is great. I'm using it as a substitute of the Applications/Places/System menus of the gnome panel. Up to now I have seen only two minor problems: 1) The window is not transparent. I have seen screenshots of USP with transparent window, but I'm unable to get the transparency. My gnome-panel is transparent as those of the screenshots. 2) I have modified the menu adding a Science submenu with Alacarte. But this submenu doesn't appear in USP window. It seems USP use the default system menu and not the user menu. Any help on both this points will be greatly appreciated, expecially on point 1.

PS. Many thanks to the author, Chanders.

gborzi said: This Ubuntu System Panel application is great. I'm using it as a substitute of the Applications/Places/System menus of the gnome panel. Up to now I have seen only two minor problems:

1) The window is not transparent. I have seen screenshots of USP with transparent window, but I'm unable to get the transparency. My gnome-panel is transparent as those of the screenshots. 2) I have modified the menu adding a Science submenu with Alacarte. But this submenu doesn't appear in USP window. It seems USP use the default system menu and not the user menu. Any help on both this points will be greatly appreciated, expecially on point 1.

PS. Many thanks to the author, Chanders.

1. Those people with the transparant USP are using the Compiz window manager, which is able to make every window you want transparant. (it is alpha software and works through XGL/AIGLX)

1. This is indeed still a big problem. It's static hardcoded information. But we are going to make it more dynamic in the future!

One thing I didn't catch: how can I add more places to the places area? Or add/remove/configure items from the computer area? For example, I have two network cards, and USP displays the IP of the local one. How can I change it?

Prism said: One thing I didn't catch: how can I add more places to the places area? Or add/remove/configure items from the computer area? For example, I have two network cards, and USP displays the IP of the local one. How can I change it?

In the top left corner, click on the pin button, then drag places to the places section.

You can only display 1 network card right now, but you can choose which one in gconf-editor with network_interface

_profox said:

1. Those people with the transparant USP are using the Compiz window manager, which is able to make every window you want transparant. (it is alpha software and works through XGL/AIGLX)

1. This is indeed still a big problem. It's static hardcoded information. But we are going to make it more dynamic in the future!

Thanks for the informations. I had installed XGL, but later removed it because it was a bit unstable.

_profox said: In the top left corner, click on the pin button, then drag places to the places section.

You can only display 1 network card right now, but you can choose which one in gconf-editor with network_interface

Cool, thanks. :)

hi

i got messed up with the settings in gconf apps/usp. first i had it, like i wanted it with big icons and big fonts. then i did a little config and messed all up. now the icons are tiny and i do not get the big again. also i think the gconf file does not save my settings. installed/reinstalled usp, removed some files in /usr/bin/.. with name ups etc...

can anybody tell me the standard settings to get big icons back? i also want the icons in the places menu as big as the other ones. how can i get this to work ?

take a look at the screenshots to see what i mean. first one: like i had it at the beginning and want to have it again second: like it is now

the next question i have i about translations of usp to german: is there any? where can i download it? or do i have to set the language somewhere in the prog. ?

any help would be great.

sorry for my non-native english and for any spelling and typing faults. i spent some hours now before my pc. maybe tomorrow when i turn on the pc again all works fine agien. who knows?

greets, Oppi

Got it going!!! :D :D :D :D :D

Just in the moment before i wanted to turn off the Pc to sleep about it I gave it one last try. And it works !!! Yeahhhh

The solution was 4. i thought icon_size must be 10 and bigger to get such big icons - but 4 worked.

For now, I am not quite sure where to put the Launcher. down left corner (lil' bit windows style) or up left (ubuntu style). thats my only question i have to dream of now.

Really great work. I love USP. Thx! :-P :D

greets, Oppi

"good night and good luck"

Oppi said: Got it going!!! :D :D :D :D :D

Just in the moment before i wanted to turn off the Pc to sleep about it I gave it one last try. And it works !!! Yeahhhh

The solution was 4. i thought icon_size must be 10 and bigger to get such big icons - but 4 worked.

For now, I am not quite sure where to put the Launcher. down left corner (lil' bit windows style) or up left (ubuntu style). thats my only question i have to dream of now.

Really great work. I love USP. Thx! :-P :D

greets, Oppi

"good night and good luck"

Glad you got it going! We will have a configuration panel soon so you wouldnt have to be digging in gconf-editor ;)

back

Hi, I've been using USP for a couple of days now, and it's the best menu I have used on any gnome system I've ran. I was wondering if there will be any features to set the escape key to close the menu. Also, if when you release the config panel, will the ability to add things to the System Management area be added? thanks.

punkdigerati said: Hi, I've been using USP for a couple of days now, and it's the best menu I have used on any gnome system I've ran. I was wondering if there will be any features to set the escape key to close the menu. Also, if when you release the config panel, will the ability to add things to the System Management area be added? thanks.

Full keyboard support is planned... and with the new plugin system, 'System Management' plugins will allow you to add what you like ;)

Great App just itstalled .33 and works beatifully. But how do you get a frame around it like I have seen in other pics?

And isn't ubuntu menu developers going to be pissed being replaced? Keep up the great work and I shall:

"Sacrifice one virgin Microsoft employee to the fires of Goddess Ubuntu"

In tribute.

orb9220 said: Great App just itstalled .33 and works beatifully. But how do you get a frame around it like I have seen in other pics?

And isn't ubuntu menu developers going to be pissed being replaced? Keep up the great work and I shall:

"Sacrifice one virgin Microsoft employee to the fires of Goddess Ubuntu"

In tribute.

Run gconf-editor and go to /apps/usp

There are a lot of goodies in there to play with. You might want to read the first post in this thread for a proper introduction and also the HowTo thread...

Hi Developers,

Today morning I downloaded the next version of the USP (0.33-1), and I found the new feature - the Hungarian surface - in it, which is very nice. Also I found a new thing, the "Favorite applications" menu item in the "All applications" area, but I don't know, how or where add other applications to it. I tried to add new items as it is writed down in the How-to posts, but it isn't work for the "Favorite applications" menu area.

Can anybody help me, how to add new intems to it?

fantan

fantan said: Hi Developers,

Today morning I downloaded the next version of the USP (0.33-1), and I found the new feature - the Hungarian surface - in it, which is very nice. Also I found a new thing, the "Favorite applications" menu item in the "All applications" area, but I don't know, how or where add other applications to it. I tried to add new items as it is writed down in the How-to posts, but it isn't work for the "Favorite applications" menu area.

Can anybody help me, how to add new intems to it?

fantan

Right Click -> Add to Favourites

Small gripe :) I have the latest USP but I seem to have a small useless button in the top left of my panel above places. Am I missing some function or is this an error.

Malac said: Small gripe :)

I have the latest USP but I seem to have a small useless button in the top left of my panel above places. Am I missing some function or is this an error.

Read the first post in this thread...

Hi,

Thank you very much for the quick answer, but I tried this method and it isn't work at me.

At any case, if I select any of the applications from any menu item and right click on it, select "Add to favorites", and restart X, I can't find the selected application on the "Favorite applications" area.

What to do?

fantan

fantan said: Hi,

Thank you very much for the quick answer, but I tried this method and it isn't work at me.

At any case, if I select any of the applications from any menu item and right click on it, select "Add to favorites", and restart X, I can't find the selected application on the "Favorite applications" area.

What to do?

fantan

When you click "Add to favourites" then you click "Applications" and you will see the item added to your favourites...

Hi again,

No, this isn't work for me.

I can't add applications to the "Favorite applications" menu item at all.

I tried all possibilities but I can't get any results.

Can you explain me in details, how to do it?

fantan

fantan said: Hi again,

No, this isn't work for me.

I can't add applications to the "Favorite applications" menu item at all.

I tried all possibilities but I can't get any results.

Can you explain me in details, how to do it?

fantan

Going to sleep now :( Been up all night finishing Ver 0.33. Will try to help you when I get up in a few hrs k? Try reading the HowTo and the first post in this thread also in the mean while...

OK, I'll wait.

Good night!

fantan

Fantan, i think you used the Hungarian translation which had one error, as you reported. I think this is preventing you from adding the favourites apps. If you want, you could try to copy this updated translation (yours) and see if it fix the problem.

Make a backup copy of the file /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/usp.mo and unzip the attached file with this same name. (/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/usp.mo) Restart The Ubuntu System Panel and try it. Please report your result.

chanders said: Read the first post in this thread...

:oops: Sorry for the dumb question. :oops: Will read instructions next time I try something. Excellent Panel app.

Hmmm, I'm using Greek language(just to test the translation), but USP is still in English....Am I being stupid? Do I have to do something else?

lazyd2 said: Hmmm, I'm using Greek language(just to test the translation), but USP is still in English....Am I being stupid? Do I have to do something else?

What is you locale? From the po file you posted I saw el_GR so the translation was for that locale. Let me know so I can recompile it for the next version...

Hello vonpng,

Thank you very much for the newly compiled usp.mo file. Now everithing is OK with it. But, as for the "Favorite applications", I think, I figured out, what is the problem with it.

Firstly, I'm very sorry for my bad English, but I try to explain:

The USP panel contains of three parts: Applications, Places, Configuration. On the Application part there is a button which can be named "All applications" or "Applications". When I click on this button, on the screen of this part of the USP panel there are eider favorite applications (although the name of this part of the sreen is "Applications" and not "Favorite applications"), which I can add to here by the Chanders's How-to; and if I click on the button again, this place becomes "All applications" and on the left hand side of it you can find the folders from Gnome main menu, and on the right hand side you can see the applications of the selected folders. Between the folders I found a folder named "Favorite applications", but this folder is missing from the Gnome main menu. There is one application in it: VMware. I don't know, how I got this folder. Of course I have the VMware on my computer, but I don't know, from where I got the folder, I don't created it sure. My proposal in accordance with this problem is: Rename the afore mentioned part of the USP panel insteed of "Applications" to "Favorite applications", and the double name of the button to "All applications"/"Favorite applications". I think, it would be much more logic. As for the folder named "Favorite applications" I think, this is just my problem. I try to find the solution anyhow.

best regards,

fantan

fantan said: Hello vonpng,

Thank you very much for the newly compiled usp.mo file. Now everithing is OK with it. But, as for the "Favorite applications", I think, I figured out, what is the problem with it.

Firstly, I'm very sorry for my bad English, but I try to explain:

The USP panel contains of three parts: Applications, Places, Configuration. On the Application part there is a button which can be named "All applications" or "Applications". When I click on this button, on the screen of this part of the USP panel there are eider favorite applications (although the name of this part of the sreen is "Applications" and not "Favorite applications"), which I can add to here by the Chanders's How-to; and if I click on the button again, this place becomes "All applications" and on the left hand side of it you can find the folders from Gnome main menu, and on the right hand side you can see the applications of the selected folders. Between the folders I found a folder named "Favorite applications", but this folder is missing from the Gnome main menu. There is one application in it: VMware. I don't know, how I got this folder. Of course I have the VMware on my computer, but I don't know, from where I got the folder, I don't created it sure. My proposal in accordance with this problem is: Rename the afore mentioned part of the USP panel insteed of "Applications" to "Favorite applications", and the double name of the button to "All applications"/"Favorite applications". I think, it would be much more logic. As for the folder named "Favorite applications" I think, this is just my problem. I try to find the solution anyhow.

best regards,

fantan

I am glad you got it working ;) I just got up... I will consider changing the label to 'Favourite Applications'... Enjoy!

Hi Developers,

In conjunkcion with the afore mentioned problem, to solve it, I made a new Hungarian translation of the locale file. Please compile it again, and change the originale usp.mo with the new version, and at the same time send it to this forum too.

SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.

Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER

This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.

Albert Fazakas <fantan@axelero.hu>, 2006.

This is the second fix.

#, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: 0.32\n" "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2006-08-02 11:24+0200\n" "PO-Revision-Date: 2006-08-07 11:24+0100\n" "Last-Translator: Albert Fazakas <fantan@axelero.hu>\n" "Language-Team: Albert Fazakas <fantan@axelero.hu>\n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=hu_HU.UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

#: usp.glade:115 usp.glade:479 msgid "Places" msgstr "Helyek"

#: usp.glade:181 usp.glade:917 usp.glade:1091 msgid "Applications" msgstr "Alkalmazások"

#: usp.glade:247 msgid "Settings" msgstr "Beállítások"

#: usp.glade:598 msgid "System Management" msgstr "Adminisztráció"

#: usp.glade:663 msgid "Install Software" msgstr "Szoftver telepítés"

#: usp.glade:725 usp.glade:3012 msgid "Control Center" msgstr "Vezérl&#337;központ"

#: usp.glade:788 msgid "Lock screen" msgstr "Képerny&#337;zár"

#: usp.glade:852 msgid "Quit..." msgstr "Kilépés..."

#: usp.glade:972 usp.glade:2308 usp.glade:2392 msgid "Computer" msgstr "Számítógép"

## #: usp.glade:1149 msgid "<span size=\"small\">All Applications</span>" msgstr "<span size=\"small\">Minden alkalmazás</span>"

#: usp.glade:1287 msgid "All Applications" msgstr "Minden alkalmazás"

#: usp.glade:1345 msgid "<span size=\"small\"> Applications</span>" # fix msgstr "<span size=\"small\"> Kedvencek</span>" # fix

#: usp.glade:1429 msgid "<span size=\"small\"> Accessories</span>" msgstr "<span size=\"small\"> Kellékek</span>"

#: usp.glade:1487 msgid "<span size=\"small\"> Games</span>" msgstr "<span size=\"small\"> Játékok</span>"

#: usp.glade:1545 msgid "<span size=\"small\"> Graphics</span>" msgstr "<span size=\"small\"> Grafika</span>"

#: usp.glade:1603 msgid "<span size=\"small\"> Internet</span>" msgstr "<span size=\"small\"> Internet</span>"

#: usp.glade:1661 msgid "<span size=\"small\"> Office</span>" msgstr "<span size=\"small\"> Iroda</span>"

#: usp.glade:1719 msgid "<span size=\"small\"> Programming</span>" msgstr "<span size=\"small\"> Programozás</span>"

#: usp.glade:1777 msgid "<span size=\"small\"> Sound and Video</span>" msgstr "<span size=\"small\"> Audio és Video</span>"

#: usp.glade:1835 msgid "<span size=\"small\"> System Tools</span>" msgstr "<span size=\"small\"> Rendszereszközök</span>"

#: usp.glade:1893 msgid "<span size=\"small\"> Settings</span>" msgstr "<span size=\"small\"> Beállítások</span>"

#: usp.glade:1951 msgid "<span size=\"small\"> All</span>" msgstr "<span size=\"small\"> Minden</span>"

#: usp.glade:2115 msgid "<span weight=\"bold\">More Applications...</span>" msgstr "<span weight=\"bold\">További alkalmazások...</span>"

#: usp.glade:2174 msgid "Enter item to search" msgstr "Írd be, mit keressek"

#: usp.glade:2216 msgid "Search" msgstr "Keresés"

#: usp.glade:2516 msgid "Network" msgstr "Hálózat"

#: usp.glade:2640 msgid "Date and Time" msgstr "Dátum és id&#337;"

#: usp.glade:2764 msgid "Theme" msgstr "Téma"

#: usp.glade:2888 msgid "Screen Resolution" msgstr "Képerny&#337; felbontás"

#: usp.glade:3037 msgid "Configure your system" msgstr "Rendszerkonfigurálás"

#: usp.glade:3133 msgid "Move up" msgstr "Mozgatás fel"

#: usp.glade:3142 msgid "Move down" msgstr "Mozgatás le"

#: usp.glade:3151 msgid "Edit labels" msgstr "Cimkék módosítása"

#: usp.glade:3160 msgid "Insert separator" msgstr "Elválasztó csík beszúrása"

#: usp.glade:3169 msgid "Insert space" msgstr "Üres hely beszúrása"

#: usp.glade:3178 msgid "Remove" msgstr "Eltávolítás"

#: usp.glade:3187 msgid "Edit item" msgstr "Tétel módosítása"

#: usp.glade:3256 msgid "Name" msgstr "Név"

#: usp.glade:3300 msgid "Generic name" msgstr "Általános név"

#: usp.glade:3343 msgid "Comment" msgstr "Megjegyzés"

#: usp.glade:3386 msgid "Exec" msgstr "Futtatás"

#: usp.glade:3429 msgid "Icon" msgstr "Ikon"

#: usp.glade:3484 msgid "Add to favourites" msgstr "Hozzáadás a kedvencekhez"

Thank you very much in advance. This application becomes better and better! I like it very much!

fantan

Wrong answer at the wrong place :(

fantan said: Hi Developers,

In conjunkcion with the afore mentioned problem, to solve it, I made a new Hungarian translation of the locale file. Please compile it again, and change the originale usp.mo with the new version, and at the same time send it to this forum too.

Thank you very much in advance. This application becomes better and better! I like it very much!

fantan

New hungarian translation attached..

@bulldog - huh?

Thank you very much, Chanders!

fantan

chanders said: What is you locale? From the po file you posted I saw el_GR so the translation was for that locale. Let me know so I can recompile it for the next version...

Maybe I made a typo. Where can I look? ](*,) :mrgreen:

*edit* Is this what I should be looking for?

/etc/environment:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_GR:en"

@Chanders Too many tabs open,got messed up with a reply on something else.:)

Just installed 0.33 ... thanks for the Quit... option!

I am using ubuntu on powerpc, do I have any chance of getting usp to work ? I added the compiz repository but I don't get usp or any other thing there...

fuoco said: I am using ubuntu on powerpc, do I have any chance of getting usp to work ? I added the compiz repository but I don't get usp or any other thing there...

Yes, USP works on all platforms. It relies on Python and GTK. Just download the .deb file in the "new releases" topic and install that.

Or try to "sudo apt-get install usp" with the compiz repo enabled.

What I get is:

$ sudo apt-get install usp
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package usp

I have in /etc/apt/sources.list :

deb http://ubuntu.compiz.net/ dapper main aiglx
deb-src http://ubuntu.compiz.net/ dapper main aiglx

lazyd2 said: Maybe I made a typo. Where can I look? ](*,) :mrgreen:

*edit* Is this what I should be looking for?

/etc/environment:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_GR:en"

Hmmm... Isnt en 'English' ? Maybe thats why USP is in English... eg. pt_BR is portugues(pt) but the Brazillian(BR) version

_UCC_ should show this if run from a terminal ;)

LordMau said: Just installed 0.33 ... thanks for the Quit... option!

Did it work well?

fuoco said: What I get is:

$ sudo apt-get install usp
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package usp

I have in /etc/apt/sources.list :

deb http://ubuntu.compiz.net/ dapper main aiglx
deb-src http://ubuntu.compiz.net/ dapper main aiglx

You need "deb http://xgl.compiz.info/ dapper main" I think

Hmmmm...what is the status on theme bugs?

Dunno if anyone really cares but this is what I get using the "Amaranth" theme :p

UCC should show this if run from a terminal

:~$ gcontrol
Your locale is el_GR
('el_GR', 'utf-8')

Everything else its in Greek, exept USP :-k :-k

(Dunno, it's all "Greek" to me...):mrgreen:

_profox said: You need "deb http://xgl.compiz.info/ dapper main" I think

It's not what shows up in http://xgl.compiz.info/

Anduu said: Hmmmm...what is the status on theme bugs?

Dunno if anyone really cares but this is what I get using the "Amaranth" theme :p

Will fix this in the next release..

lazyd2 said:

:~$ gcontrol Your locale is el_GR ('el_GR', 'utf-8')

Everything else its in Greek, exept USP :-k :-k

(Dunno, it's all "Greek" to me...):mrgreen:

All Greek to you ha ha ha ha.....good 1...

Hmmm have to look over the translation code...

LordMau said: FYI USP under xfce-panel...

[[IMG]http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6986/xfceusp800aq7.th.png[/IMG]](http://img142.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xfceusp800aq7.png)

I'm a French user. I'm in this case (I have Xfce and I'd like to use USP).

I didn't find how to do this, could you explain me what to do?

Thank you.... :( :-k

Just tried it out, very nice though I think System should say Ubuntu =)

plb said: Just tried it out, very nice though I think System should say Ubuntu =)

Open "gconf-editor" and goto "Apps > USP" and change "applet_text" ;)

USP is sweet! Thanks for the effort!

USP is looking good!

only two things:

one, i cannot drag the "system" button on my panel, i dont know if this is a problem with me or the program

and clicking "control center" on the actual USP window does seem to do anything

otherwise great work!

Polygon said: USP is looking good!

only two things:

one, i cannot drag the "system" button on my panel, i dont know if this is a problem with me or the program

and clicking "control center" on the actual USP window does seem to do anything

otherwise great work!

The control center it's calling is this one:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=207894

So if you install that it will work.

No sure what you mean by cannot drag the system button. Do you mean move it's position? Check that the button is not locked and that the location you are trying to drag to hasn't got locked items in the way (right click on them to see)

This Ubuntu System Panel is a wonderful idea. Congrats! Can't wait to see it in the final stable Edgy (prerequisite to suggest it to my many ungeeky friends using ubuntu :-P).

Cheers,

@polygon

I don't know if I get u right, but if u want to have the "System"-button on any panel you have to right-click the panel where you want to have it and choose "apply new app". Then scroll down until you come to "Ubuntu Sytem Panel" and choose it. Now it should appear unless u have installed it. If u start USP out of terminal a window is opened which u cannot apply to an panel.

Was this the problem you asked ?

greets, Oppi

Is there anyway to map this to a shortcut yet? I believe that's one of the few things this is missing. You've really put together the greatest menu in my experience with any operating system (yes, better than the K menu IMO.)

Oppi said: @polygon

I don't know if I get u right, but if u want to have the "System"-button on any panel you have to right-click the panel where you want to have it and choose "apply new app". Then scroll down until you come to "Ubuntu Sytem Panel" and choose it. Now it should appear unless u have installed it. If u start USP out of terminal a window is opened which u cannot apply to an panel.

Was this the problem you asked ?

greets, Oppi

nope, sorry

what i meant was, its ON my panel, but i cant move it anywhere. You know that if you have like stuff like icons (shortcuts) on your panel, you can move it? Well usually for me, i can move it with the middle mouse button, but for some reason, it wont let me do it with USP. I had to right click it and choose "move" then move it. Not really a big problem, but yeah :D

and thanks simon for the link for ubuntu control panel. that is a very cool program too =P

Polygon said: nope, sorry

what i meant was, its ON my panel, but i cant move it anywhere. You know that if you have like stuff like icons (shortcuts) on your panel, you can move it? Well usually for me, i can move it with the middle mouse button, but for some reason, it wont let me do it with USP. I had to right click it and choose "move" then move it. Not really a big problem, but yeah :D

and thanks simon for the link for ubuntu control panel. that is a very cool program too =P

The middle click to move will be added... please file it as a wish on the wishlist at launchpad.. https://launchpad.net/products/usp

Glad you like both programs ;)

Nice app, i just installed it and i like it :D

just 1 question, when i press on the "Control Panel" icon nothing appens, is that normal?

thanks and good work

Chandler, i think you should incluse Ubuntu Control Center with USP or make a Big Tooltip when someone without it press the "Control Panel" ;)

Please, if the "Control Panel" button is not working install Ubuntu Control Center.

sudo apt-get install gcontrol

(You should have Quinn Repository. See http://xgl.compiz.info for details)

Or you could get if from the project ( version 1.38 ):

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=12831&d=1153073005

See the Forums of UCC to view screenshots and information aboit it.

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=157

chanders said: The middle click to move will be added... please file it as a wish on the wishlist at launchpad.. https://launchpad.net/products/usp

Glad you like both programs ;)

ok i added that suggestion, and i added some others. good luck with this program!

still can't change text colour! :(

_simon_ said: still can't change text colour! :(

I think you need to tick use_custom_color as well in gconf-editor.

By the way how do you get horizontal seperators to appear on the menu.

custom color only does border, background and headings.

If you right click on USP you can add a space or a separator - the separator is the horizontal line.

Hi,

USP no longer works for me since version 0.33, and i don't really know why, i have the button on the panel, but nothing appens when i click it. Here is the output i have with the version 0.41 when i run it in a window :

reggaemanu@ubuntu:/opt$ usp run-in-window

Dir exist Dir exist Dir exist Application added - /home/reggaemanu/.usp/applications/hadjaha-001c3515c2.desktopApplication added - /home/reggaemanu/.usp/applications/aMSN.desktop Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1769, in ? menu_factory(app, None) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1749, in menu_factory MenuWin(applet, iid) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1565, in __init__ self.mainwin = MainWindow(self) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 174, in __init__ self.PopulateApplications() File "/usr/bin/usp", line 188, in PopulateApplications self.Add_Button(ApplicationsList[i][:-1],"application",True) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1048, in Add_Button PlaceIcon.set_size_request(60,-1) UnboundLocalError: local variable 'PlaceIcon' referenced before assignment reggaemanu@ubuntu:/opt$

If that can help...

Hey

I'm having a few problems with the latest USP (0.41)

The button on the panel looks like this : [IMG]http://img434.imageshack.us/img434/5572/uspie0.png[/IMG]

Note the gray bar at the bottom and the "shifting" of the panel in the background.

Also, the theming of the program is broken compared to 0.3 ish: [IMG]http://img434.imageshack.us/img434/7311/usp2bj1.png[/IMG]

Here is an older version: [IMG]http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7136/uspolderfk1.png[/IMG]

Is anyone else getting this?

thanks

Chris Budden

Nice panel.

1) How do i put a border on it so it doesnt get lost away when covering other windows of same color.

2) How do i change thte height of the panel. Its too short and some of the icons in it are cut off

3) since installing it i have a weird probloem where i see these small documents flying from top of screen to bottom of the screen like when you drag a document someplace and its not suppose to go there how it flys away. Only thing i'm not dragging anything... its just happening by itself.

Thanks.

by the way ... with the scroll bar when is that gonna be converted to one of the nice fancy scrolls taht we see in the favoites menus of the most current browsers or the ubuntu menu when a menu is too long :)

cbudden said: Hey

I'm having a few problems with the latest USP (0.41)

The button on the panel looks like this : [IMG]http://img434.imageshack.us/img434/5572/uspie0.png[/IMG]

Note the gray bar at the bottom and the "shifting" of the panel in the background.

Is anyone else getting this?

thanks

Chris Budden

Chris,

To solve the theming problem - i.e. different colours you need to do the following:

Gconf -> apps -> usp

Scroll to the very bottom and tick "use_custom_color"

Your panel will then be all one colour.

To change your colours, scroll back up and change:

custom_border_color custom_color (this is your usp panel background colour) custom_heading_color

Can't help you with your button problem. I use the same Linsta-GTK2 theme without that problem.

Edit: What size is that panel? (right click and choose properties) mine is 24

_simon_ said: Chris,

To solve the theming problem - i.e. different colours you need to do the following:

Gconf -> apps -> usp

Scroll to the very bottom and tick "use_custom_color"

Your panel will then be all one colour.

To change your colours, scroll back up and change:

custom_border_color custom_color (this is your usp panel background colour) custom_heading_color

Can't help you with your button problem. I use the same Linsta-GTK2 theme without that problem.

Edit: What size is that panel? (right click and choose properties) mine is 24

Thanks for the colour suggestion, it worked. I have found the problem with the button, it is the icon theme i'm using. If I use Human the ubuntu icon is not scaling properly, but if I pick Tangerine or anything else, the icon is correct and fits and the button is fine. I shall look about changing the Human icon with one from another set, as I want the Human icon theme.

Thanks again

edit

It is the human icon which is causing the problem for sure, and my panel size is 24.

Hello again.

After switching themes again, but this time differently, buy going back to straight Human and switching controls back to Linsta, my USP is again beautiful.

Thanks

cbudden said: Hello again.

After switching themes again, but this time differently, buy going back to straight Human and switching controls back to Linsta, my USP is again beautiful.

Thanks

My GTK theme of choice. *Linsta* rocks!

hello, I wanted to know how to change the menu button (USP) to replace by a picture. Thank you

After installing a new app it did not appear in USP listed under all applications neither could it be found in the search box. I had to remove the applet from and replace it on the panel for the progam launcher to appear.

Is there a way around this?

Thanks.

sefs said: After installing a new app it did not appear in USP listed under all applications neither could it be found in the search box. I had to remove the applet from and replace it on the panel for the progam launcher to appear.

Is there a way around this?

Thanks. I think they are working on that...

Fantastic idea ... consider this thread bookmarked :D

Thanks for this great panel!! I love it!

But two questions for making it better for me:

1. Is it posible to change between categories in applications (accesories, graphics, internet...) without clicking on them, just only pointing them with the mouse?

1. Is possible to hide the titles (places, applications, system management...) or make panels not to hide when clicking on titles?

Thanks!

ADRez said: Thanks for this great panel!! I love it!

But two questions for making it better for me:

1. Is it posible to change between categories in applications (accesories, graphics, internet...) without clicking on them, just only pointing them with the mouse?

1. Is possible to hide the titles (places, applications, system management...) or make panels not to hide when clicking on titles?

Thanks!

Hmmm...

1. That option is not available now but I will consider adding it...
2. Why would you click the titles if you didnt want to close them? :-k

I like! Very nice, I think I'll keep it. Far better then SLED/SLAB (however it's spelled).

Anyway, a couple of suggestions:

1. When I type an app name in the app search bar, and I type enough that it narrows it down to only one app, and I press enter, can you make

1. When I click the system button and the menu pops up, it is a few pixels down from the panel that the button is located on (see screenshot) I'm not sure if this is intentional or not...but it bothers me for some reason.

Otherwise, it's great :D

(sorry if I came across as not liking it. I really do.)

is there any possibility to add support for "recent documents"? thanks

1. That option is not available now but I will consider adding it...

Thanks!

1. Why would you click the titles if you didnt want to close them?

I have the toggle panel disabled, so if I click without wanting on them then the toggle panel appears again, and I think it's annoying.

compwiz18 said: I like! Very nice, I think I'll keep it. Far better then SLED/SLAB (however it's spelled).

Anyway, a couple of suggestions:

1. When I type an app name in the app search bar, and I type enough that it narrows it down to only one app, and I press enter, can you make

1. When I click the system button and the menu pops up, it is a few pixels down from the panel that the button is located on (see screenshot) I'm not sure if this is intentional or not...but it bothers me for some reason.

Otherwise, it's great :D

(sorry if I came across as not liking it. I really do.)

I will add the ENTER button to run in the next release. It seems you are running Metacity, try changing /apps/usp/panel_size option to 1 and restart USP...

Glad you like it ;-)

oncemore said: is there any possibility to add support for "recent documents"?

thanks

This is going to be added as a plugin shortly :-)

Chanders....out of interest...how's it goin for a configuration window?

delfick said: Chanders....out of interest...how's it goin for a configuration window?

To be honest, delfick, right now I am working on making the plugin system better, especially for places to show mounted volumes and the nautilus bookmarks file.. It seems unlikely that I would be able to start the configuration window soon...

I have placed prority on getting the plugin stuff done. Any budding developers who are willing to give the configuration window a shot please pm me. Even if you can design the glade file, I will try to do the coding behind it..

Sorry guys but myself and the other developers are working as hard and as fast as we can. We just can't do it all at once...

Take it easy,Chanders :D

It's already a fine application. Do what you think that's important and take your time.

Don't rush it,take it step by step, we have to wait with all our wishes.

You and your team do a hell of a good job and we all appreciate it.

Ditto ^^

Plenty of wishes, not enough *thanks*. I officially add my mnay thanks for a wonderful USP! ;)

7.) Right click on items to edit labels and their launcher

When I do tha all I get is the 'add to favourites' menu How do I change the names??

Put an app. in your favorites and then right-click again. You'll see a menu to change your preferences.

You can't changes the default names in all applications.

SO in order to change the names in all apps my only option is to use ALACARTE, correct? If so will this feature be implemented, so I would be able to rename/delete the programs from withing USP??

btw. congrats on your great work

I will add the ENTER button to run in the next release. It seems you are running Metacity, try changing /apps/usp/panel_size option to 1 and restart USP...

Works great. thank you :D

bulldog said: Take it easy,Chanders :D

It's already a fine application. Do what you think that's important and take your time.

Don't rush it,take it step by step, we have to wait with all our wishes.

You and your team do a hell of a good job and we all appreciate it.

i agree... :D

waiting for each new release is worth it :D

delfick said: i agree... :D

waiting for each new release is worth it :D

bulldog said: Take it easy,Chanders :D

It's already a fine application. Do what you think that's important and take your time.

Don't rush it,take it step by step, we have to wait with all our wishes.

You and your team do a hell of a good job and we all appreciate it. ++1

Good things come to those who wait...:biggrin:

Hello, in accord with everyone else i want to thank the creator of this wonderful utility!!

I have some questions :)

How do i use the tangerine Ubuntu icon and change the name of the button from *System*?

And also, i am not sure if this is a feature deficit or a bug but in my applications pane, i would quite like to be able to see recently used applications. However, currently, unless i select all apps on start up my apps pane is empty until i search. See attachment.

Oh and wheres the best place to keep an eye on recent updates, because synaptic is ~0.33 or something while there us a 0.44 file floating around.

I also think it would be good to have a recently installed section under applications.

Oh yea, and my colours are foo.

Cheers, and keep up the good work.

I'm kind of torn on USP vs default 3 button approach.

On USP's side, it is very attractive, much more so than the default. The lay out for things, with the large clickable areas, is superior. Its clean and easy to use (the gap, notwithstanding).

The one thing which prevents me from using it much is that it pops up too much stuff. If I want to hit the filesystem or launch an application, having Networking as a presented option doesn't do anything for me. I much prefer the three separated menus to the one unified one. There are some oddities with it, such as why there is a System Tool menu under Applications, when there is a System menu and the two submeus of the System menu could really use some grouping. UCC would be a good one stop shopping for much of it.

Anyhow, just throwing this out there.

would it be possible to have user-specific plugins as extra menus instead of extra panes (as an option) ??

delfick said: would it be possible to have user-specific plugins as extra menus instead of extra panes (as an option) ??

Off course! That is why I implemented the plugin system! What extra menus would you like to see?

ashrack said: SO in order to change the names in all apps my only option is to use ALACARTE, correct?

If so will this feature be implemented, so I would be able to rename/delete the programs from withing USP??

btw. congrats on your great work

I think this would be a duplication of effort as Alacarte is an excellent program to edit the GNOME menu. I can however add an option to 'Edit with Alacarte' ;)

| MM | said: Hello, in accord with everyone else i want to thank the creator of this wonderful utility!!

I have some questions :)

How do i use the tangerine Ubuntu icon and change the name of the button from *System*?

And also, i am not sure if this is a feature deficit or a bug but in my applications pane, i would quite like to be able to see recently used applications. However, currently, unless i select all apps on start up my apps pane is empty until i search. See attachment.

Oh and wheres the best place to keep an eye on recent updates, because synaptic is ~0.33 or something while there us a 0.44 file floating around.

I also think it would be good to have a recently installed section under applications.

Oh yea, and my colours are foo.

Cheers, and keep up the good work.

99% of all your questions are answered in this forum. Please do a search!

As for the latest release you can find it in the "New Release!!" sticky in the main forum...

cptnapalm said: I'm kind of torn on USP vs default 3 button approach.

On USP's side, it is very attractive, much more so than the default. The lay out for things, with the large clickable areas, is superior. Its clean and easy to use (the gap, notwithstanding).

The one thing which prevents me from using it much is that it pops up too much stuff. If I want to hit the filesystem or launch an application, having Networking as a presented option doesn't do anything for me. I much prefer the three separated menus to the one unified one. There are some oddities with it, such as why there is a System Tool menu under Applications, when there is a System menu and the two submeus of the System menu could really use some grouping. UCC would be a good one stop shopping for much of it.

Anyhow, just throwing this out there.

Thanks for your input... You do know that you can minimize plugins to the plugins tray on the left? Just click the Plugin Label and it will be minimized. To un-minimize just do the opposite... That way you can hide items you dont want to see ;)

Found something a little funny, I guess it's a bug, but not really that important (read: low priority ;)):

If you wanna see it, try this:

open a Terminal and killall gnome-panel When it restarts, move your mouse over any of the headings (the things that you click to make the category disappear, i.e. Applications) and note that it pops out.

Click it. Now click the little picture that means it's minimized (I guess that's the word...anyway just make it come back to its big state) and move your mouse over the heading again. Note that it pops in now.

Any reason for that or am I just going crazy?

If you have something that I could do, I'd love to help...

chanders said: would it be possible to have user-specific plugins as extra menus instead of extra panes (as an option) ?? Off course! That is why I implemented the plugin system! What extra menus would you like to see?

what i meant was basically, add a new option to the plugins_list key in the options called "new_menu"..... then for example, if i had applications newpane USPcomputer new_menu places USPcalendar

then that would mean the first menu has two panes, one with applications and one with usp computer, whilst the second menu has one pane, with places on top and calendar on bottom.... then add the toggle bar as it's own plugin so that you can have that exactly where you want it....

that would be cool :D

Hi. I didn't find anything with search regarding this:

username@box:~$ usp run-in-window Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1769, in ? menu_factory(app, None) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1749, in menu_factory MenuWin(applet, iid) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1565, in __init__ self.mainwin = MainWindow(self) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 101, in __init__ self.lang=self.language[0:2] TypeError: unsubscriptable object

When I try to add the app to the panel, it goes there but isn't visible. When I move panel (from bottom to top for an example) it appears and after that I can move the app but still it cannot be clicked.

Any ideas? All dependencies are ok. edit. And this is happening in gnome, I'm not using kde (some kde libraries are installed because of amarok).

Colonel Kilkenny said: Hi. I didn't find anything with search regarding this:

username@box:~$ usp run-in-window Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1769, in ? menu_factory(app, None) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1749, in menu_factory MenuWin(applet, iid) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1565, in __init__ self.mainwin = MainWindow(self) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 101, in __init__ self.lang=self.language[0:2] TypeError: unsubscriptable object

When I try to add the app to the panel, it goes there but isn't visible. When I move panel (from bottom to top for an example) it appears and after that I can move the app but still it cannot be clicked.

Any ideas? All dependencies are ok. edit. And this is happening in gnome, I'm not using kde (some kde libraries are installed because of amarok).

This seems to be a problem with the translation. Since USP changed so much in the last release the translation doesnt work well and it was missed when we released the last version. The next version will have translation disabled until most of the changes are done..

Quick fix: Locate this line in /usr/bin/usp

self.lang=self.language[0:2]

and change it to

self.lang = "en"

That should help until the next release (in a few days ;-))

Thanks! That worked like my charm in local pub.

When USP opens up, after selecting what it is you want, ideally, it should close, or it should close when someone clicks outside of USP. Does this make sense?

If I open something up with USP (e.g. XMMS), and click outside of it (e.g. the desktop), the USP won't close automatically. It needs to close better, because it a pain to click several times to get out of it on the deskopt, or to go back to the USP, and click on its icon.

I am sure this makes sense, but if it doesn't, I'll elaborate. Is there a fix for this, and if not, will it ever be fixed?

This should happen automatically... Are you sure you dont have it pinned? (small icon in the top left)

chanders said: This should happen automatically... Are you sure you dont have it pinned? (small icon in the top left)

I get a smiliar thing happen, but just with items on the right (date and time, theme etc), the other things cause the menu to close.

chanders said: This should happen automatically... Are you sure you dont have it pinned? (small icon in the top left)

Do you mean locked? No, I don't have the USP locked to the panel. By the way, the main panel is on the bottom of the screen (i moved it down - there's only one panel now).

Do you know why it doesn't close when you click outside of the USP? It makes sense that it should close immediately if the mouse leaves its window (the USP).

H.E. Pennypacker said: Do you mean locked? No, I don't have the USP locked to the panel. By the way, the main panel is on the bottom of the screen (i moved it down - there's only one panel now).

Do you know why it doesn't close when you click outside of the USP? It makes sense that it should close immediately if the mouse leaves its window (the USP).

The top left of the USP itself has a small bar that when clicked either "pins" or "unpins" the USP .

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/unclespellbinder/Blog/USP_Pin.png[/IMG]

Uncle Spellbinder, that small thing (the bar - the rectangular thing above "Places") in the top left corner has somewhat solved the problem. Now, when I click on a USP entry (e.g. RealPlayer), the USP will go away.

But, when I don't click on anything and change my mind about using the USP, it won't go away if I click on, say, the desktop. It will close, however, if I open up another window, and *then* click on the desktop. So, closing it requires opening up another window and then clicking on the desktop, which is somewhat of a pain.

Is there a solution?

H.E. Pennypacker said: But, when I don't click on anything and change my mind about using the USP, it won't go away if I click on, say, the desktop. It will close, however, if I open up another window, and *then* click on the desktop. So, closing it requires opening up another window and then clicking on the desktop, which is somewhat of a pain.

Is there a solution? same here!!!

ashrack said: same here!!!

Are you guys running compiz or metacity? When USP is unpinned, it supposed to go away as long as it loses focus. When it is pinned it will only go away if you click the button...

Make sure you have the pin button Unpressed...

chanders said: Are you guys running compiz or metacity? When USP is unpinned, it supposed to go away as long as it loses focus. When it is pinned it will only go away if you click the button...

Make sure you have the pin button Unpressed... I'm running compiz and I don't have this problem..

lazyd2 said: I'm running compiz and I don't have this problem..

Ditto

Figured as much... I dont use Metacity myself so I guess that's where it crept in. Will have to remember that for future development... ;)

just for inspiration: http://home.kde.org/~binner/kickoff/sneak_preview.html

For reference; I am using metacity and my USP panel does disappear when I click the desktop. Just to throw in more confusion. :)

I can't add usp to panel, error says that's problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_USP" :(

chanders said: Are you guys running compiz or metacity? When USP is unpinned, it supposed to go away as long as it loses focus. When it is pinned it will only go away if you click the button...

I guess the confusion comes in because people think it should go away on a mouse_out-event (i.e. the mouse pointer leaves the menu and after some time the menu closes automatically).

Mine works well and I really like it (metacity). Thanks for the efforts so far!

chanders said: Are you guys running compiz or metacity? When USP is unpinned, it supposed to go away as long as it loses focus. When it is pinned it will only go away if you click the button...

Make sure you have the pin button Unpressed...

When running Metacity, this problem does occur, but with Compiz, it doesn't. I switch between the two window managers.

scolex said: just for inspiration: http://home.kde.org/~binner/kickoff/sneak_preview.html

See this thread ;)

Paool said: I can't add usp to panel, error says that's problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_USP" :(

This had occured before with someone on this thread (sorry, didnt do a search), but I think it was because his install was messed up. Do you have a defauly dapper installation, and did you remove / change any python packages?

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=235887

I had that problem and it was solved installing python2.4-gnome2-desktop

For some reason usp does not show up in /apps/usp . its just not there at all? any ideas?

Theava said: For some reason usp does not show up in /apps/usp . its just not there at all? any ideas?

Do you look in the file system or in the gconf editor?

Just asking cos this (file system) is what i thought at first as well when i read all the references to /apps/ups :oops: . It should be in the gconf editor. Type

gconf-editor

on the command line for that.

Paool said: I can't add usp to panel, error says that's problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_USP" :(

I had the same problem a couple weeks ago. This fixed it:

sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop

but am using COMPIZ and it doesnt dissappears when clicking on the desktop! BUt it does disappear when clicking on an app from withing USP!

Just had to add even more confusion,

cbudden said: Hello again.

After switching themes again, but this time differently, buy going back to straight Human and switching controls back to Linsta, my USP is again beautiful.

Thanks

Hello again.

I have installed Ubuntu on my new laptop and the same problem has occured, same user profile as on the old system where the icon is fine, but now i have that annoying grey line again. I tried the theme switching but its stuck. Any ideas?

monktbd said: Do you look in the file system or in the gconf editor?

Just asking cos this (file system) is what i thought at first as well when i read all the references to /apps/ups :oops: . It should be in the gconf editor. Type

on the command line for that.

Yeah I was in gconf-editor

cbudden said: Hello again.

I have installed Ubuntu on my new laptop and the same problem has occured, same user profile as on the old system where the icon is fine, but now i have that annoying grey line again. I tried the theme switching but its stuck. Any ideas?

Mind reminding me of the problem cbudden?

Theava said: Yeah I was in gconf-editor

/apps/usp isnt created until USP is launched. Also be sure you are not looking under schemas, as one user was doing that ;)

Its launched, i tried that, and rebooted. Still cant seem to find it, definatly not in schemas... have a look.. This darn thing is so cool, just wish i could config it...

Screenshot here

Mind reminding me of the problem cbudden?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1382919&postcount=412

Thanks

Along with the screenshot from that post, here is one with the icon displayed properly, with the Tangerine icon theme

[IMG]http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6663/screenshot2yp7.png[/IMG]

Theava said: Its launched, i tried that, and rebooted. Still cant seem to find it, definatly not in schemas... have a look.. This darn thing is so cool, just wish i could config it...

Screenshot here

OK, try running this in a terminal...

usp run-in-window

and post your output for me...

cbudden said: Mind reminding me of the problem cbudden?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1382919&postcount=412

Thanks

Along with the screenshot from that post, here is one with the icon displayed properly, with the Tangerine icon theme

[IMG]http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6663/screenshot2yp7.png[/IMG]

The size of the button iz determined by the size of the icon. It should be fixed in the next release. Make sure you have an icon size 24 in your current theme to use. Maybe you can make one called usp-icon or something and set it in gconf-editor...

chanders said: OK, try running this in a terminal...

usp run-in-window

and post your output for me...

The size of the button iz determined by the size of the icon. It should be fixed in the next release. Make sure you have an icon size 24 in your current theme to use. Maybe you can make one called usp-icon or something and set it in gconf-editor...

Thanks for the tip re the icon. What folder should the icon I make go into? I want to use Human as a theme.

Here is the output :

Warning! - Icon for item not found!
Warning! - Icon for item not found!
Warning! - Icon for item not found!
Warning! - Icon for item not found!
Dir exist
Dir exist
Dir exist
Application added - /home/cbudden/.usp/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop
Application added - /home/cbudden/.usp/applications/firefox.desktop
Application added - /home/cbudden/.usp/applications/xchat.desktop
Application added - /home/cbudden/.usp/applications/gconf-editor.desktop
Application added - /home/cbudden/.usp/applications/democracyplayer.desktop
Application added - /home/cbudden/.usp/applications/avidemux.desktop
Application added - /home/cbudden/.usp/applications/vmware-server.desktop
Application added - /home/cbudden/.usp/applications/google-picasa.desktop
Application added - /home/cbudden/.usp/applications/Flickr.desktop
Place added - /home/cbudden/.usp/places/nautilus-home.desktop
Place added - /home/cbudden/.usp/places/-home-cbudden-Desktop.desktop
Place added - /home/cbudden/.usp/places/nautilus-computer.desktop
Place added - /home/cbudden/.usp/places/network-scheme.desktop
Place added - /home/cbudden/.usp/places/file:---home-cbudden.desktop

chanders said: OK, try running this in a terminal...

usp run-in-window

and post your output for me...

Great, that worked. Now the /apps/usp/ exists.It doesnt seem to have any effect on the menu when they are changed... thanks for the help.

theava@theava-laptop:~$ usp run-in-window
Dir exist
Dir exist
Dir exist
Application added - /home/theava/.usp/applications/firefox.desktop
Application added - /home/theava/.usp/applications/gaim.desktop
Application added - /home/theava/.usp/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop
Application added - /home/theava/.usp/applications/eclipse.desktop
Application added - /home/theava/.usp/applications/MySQLAdministrator.desktop
Application added - /home/theava/.usp/applications/gimp-2.2.desktop
Place added - /home/theava/.usp/places/nautilus-home.desktop
Place added - /home/theava/.usp/places/-home-theava-Desktop.desktop
Place added - /home/theava/.usp/places/nautilus-computer.desktop
Place added - /home/theava/.usp/places/network-scheme.desktop
Place added - /home/theava/.usp/places/-home-theava-Downloads.desktop
Place added - /home/theava/.usp/places/-home-theava-Documents.desktop

(usp:15264): Bonobo-WARNING **: Never got frame, control died - abnormal exit condition

Seems to be working now.

Excellent!

Hi

Thanx for a great app. The only thing that bugs me is that my Codeweavers Crossover Windows-apps doesnt show up in the applications list, even though they are shown in the regular gnome menu and in alacarte.

Also, i was wondering if you could bind some key to the application filter button, so it could work a little like desk bar (quicksilver thingy)?

Cheers

Edit: huge typo

I love this! I am running 0.41, but I have a few issues. First, I don't have the names of the plugins, like Apps, Places, etc., on the left panel, as you can see in the screenshot.

Also, my wireless card is eth2, so even though I am connected wirelessly, it still says "Wired Network." It can get the IP, but I'd love if it said the wireless info. I tried wlan0, and all that, but not good results.

Where is the weather pluging grabbing its info from? It doesn't match the info from GNOME's Weather applet.

Cheers, Paul

I've just installed it. It's cool, I like it a lot !! :)

This is rather interesting... I'll be watching this closely for a semi stable/reliable release, cause I really liked that part of SLED.

installed without problem - thanks

xiamcitizen said: I love this! I am running 0.41, but I have a few issues. First, I don't have the names of the plugins, like Apps, Places, etc., on the left panel, as you can see in the screenshot.

Close the open tabs by clicking on the headline eg. "Applications" and you should get an icon on the left panel.

I just learned about this on digg, and have never used SLED, I've downloaded several versions of the deb, and none of them work. It installs fine but nothing gets added to the panel when I select it from the "Add to Panel" dialog.

try running

usp run-in-window

and post your output..

I love it. great work

I did'nt like the last 0.40-1 version, the replace of the words of the panes with icons, and one icon is broken. So i'll stay with the version in the repos, that looks really great.

Nice job!

first of all, this is crazy slick. thank you for sharing it with us. it works really well, not to mention giving me like three inches of my top panel back from gnome's stock menu.

and secondly, as an above poster mentioned, is it possible to get the vertical text instead of the icons for the system shortcuts on the left, as shown in the screenshot on the 1st post? i like that better for some reason, probably because the icons are pretty small and it'd be easier if i could just read some text, as my eyesight rather blows.

thanks again!

Sure thing! It is customizable in the next release ;)

Thanks for the very awesome software. I will be following this one closely. Feature request: Can you replace the Search Bar with the Deskbar panel applet? For that matter, is it possible to allow the docking of any panel applet into USP? That would really make USP stand out far above SLED menu.

Rich http://ricperry.homeip.net/news

amazing work, are there any themes available for it?

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spyke01 said: amazing work, are there any themes available for it?

Not yet ;)

FWIW, I've just downloaded USP and think it's great - thanks very much :)

Installed 0.41 and this is the output:

~/Desktop $ usp run-in-window Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1769, in ? menu_factory(app, None) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1749, in menu_factory MenuWin(applet, iid) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1565, in __init__ self.mainwin = MainWindow(self) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 101, in __init__ self.lang=self.language[0:2] TypeError: unsubscriptable object ~/Desktop $

I seems that for some reason the default language on my dapper install was screwed up, I went in and changed it to English (which it should have been I assume) and USP seems to be working.

Unfortunately, this does not show up properly in my dark system theme. Perhaps some changes to the color code would fix the problem shown below:

Just wanted to say I love it! I tried one of the first releases and liked the concept, but being as early as it was, wasn't too impressed at the time.

I just got version 0.41-1, and I have to commend you for USPs quality, customizability, and features. Also, I think you've done a great job listening to suggestions.

My only requests:

• Keyboard support (I already read you plan on putting this in)
• A run box / have the app search box search $PATH.
• Possibly tied to the run box, deskbar-applet functionality.

Once you have all the plugin stuff done are you thinking of allowing customizable layout? I think it would be great if I could say...organize two columns into a similar layout to slab. Although I think there's better configurations than the slab one which could be thrown together. You've basically got all the infrastructure for this already. All you would have to do is create a system for creating new custom columns and adjusting column width and the height of the whole applet.

you will be happy to hear that there is rumor of a SLAB plugin that makes USP look and act just like SLAB! =)

Tonren said: Unfortunately, this does not show up properly in my dark system theme. Perhaps some changes to the color code would fix the problem shown below:

You need to check use_custom_color and set your color to match your theme in custom_color all done in gconf-editor

Horizon said: Once you have all the plugin stuff done are you thinking of allowing customizable layout? I think it would be great if I could say...organize two columns into a similar layout to slab. Although I think there's better configurations than the slab one which could be thrown together. You've basically got all the infrastructure for this already. All you would have to do is create a system for creating new custom columns and adjusting column width and the height of the whole applet.

Already coded in the next release you can set indivudal width and height of each plugin so you can customize it just as you please..

Hi, I just got usp, really good, its very useful to me. But I have one problem with it... When i click on System and it opens, it isn't right next to the panel! It is perfectly alligned to the left, but about 20 pixels away from my panel at the top of the screen, I can see any window or the desktop that is behind, how can I fix this please?

Ben

Startup gconf editor and go to apps->usp. Set panel size =1 and there is a good chance that your problem disappear.

You can find a whole lot of settings here,wich can be altered to your liking.

A small thing I know but my panel still reads 08-31-2006 can I set it to read 31-08-2006 UK like? I've tried eu_date_format but this doesn't seem to do anything.

Malac said: A small thing I know but my panel still reads 08-31-2006 can I set it to read 31-08-2006 UK like?

I've tried eu_date_format but this doesn't seem to do anything.

eu-date does not work for the time plugin. This is added in the next release..

Thanks very much. This is a great app by the way. :)

After all the painful sudo apt-get permission config utilities i have installed this by far has been the most painless and most useful installation to date. Truly fantastic

I Agree Terific ap :-) I was waiting for something like this!

chanders said: eu-date does not work for the time plugin. This is added in the next release..

I've done a temp fix for the date thing by changing USPtime.py code. Here's what I did if anyone wants to do it.

sudo gedit /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/usp/plugins/USPtime.py

and change line 50:

self.wTree.get_widget("label1").set_label('<span size="large" weight="bold">' + datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%m-%d-%Y") + '</span>')

to read :

self.wTree.get_widget("label1").set_label('<span size="large" weight="bold">' + datetime.datetime.today().strftime("[COLOR=DarkRed]**%d-%m**[/COLOR]-%Y") + '</span>')

Easy. :)

well, i really dislike having to set manually the custom colors using conf editior, not to mention my theme is tan and the header text is now like invisible cause its silver on tan, and i dont see any option for custom text color.

Maybe just make it so the color matches the theme like in previous verisons? and add a way to change the font color =P

Polygon said: well, i really dislike having to set manually the custom colors using conf editior, not to mention my theme is tan and the header text is now like invisible cause its silver on tan, and i dont see any option for custom text color.

Maybe just make it so the color matches the theme like in previous verisons? and add a way to change the font color =P

@ Malac - Great patch ;)

@ Polygon - I will add the text color in the next release, as for the app using the gtk theme color, I will see what I can do. Curently I dont know of a way to resd this information from the current theme... If anyone does, let me know...

@ florizs, Malac, captainpotato- i am glad you guys like it... And we are improving all the time... :-D

@ Bulldog. Phido - Thanks for helping us out by answering all the questions =D>

so how's the next release going?

Another little hack:

I think it's line 795: CategoryButton.connect("button_press_event", self.Filter, child.name)

By this: CategoryButton.connect("enter_notify_event", self.Filter, child.name)

That's for not having to click on application groups to select them. I like it a lot :-D

I'm using USP 0.33 working fine, installed with synaptic.

I forgot wich is the repository for the last stable version.

Is 0.33 the last stable version of USP? If not, which is it's repository?

Look under topic "New Release" and you will find this one :D

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=14269&d=1155524787

Okay I seem to have fixed the eu_date_format thing for computer plugin. Could someone confirm this works on their system too. In USPcomputer.py change this section:

    def date_time(self):
        try:
             if self.eudate == False:
self.wTree.get_widget("label9").set_label(datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%m-%d-%Y"))
            else:
self.wTree.get_widget("label9").set_label(datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%d-%m-%Y"))

    def date_time(self):
        try:
             if self.eudate == [COLOR=Red]0[/COLOR]:
                self.wTree.get_widget("label9").set_label(datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%m-%d-%Y"))
            else:
                self.wTree.get_widget("label9").set_label(datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%d-%m-%Y"))

This now seems to work for me. I can change between eu and us date formats. :)

Edit : New USPtime.py I've just had a go at re-writing USPtime to take this into account and it seems to work. Some of the code could be superfluous as I have just cut and pasted some of the code from USPcomputer.py taking out what didn't seem right. I've never coded in python before so this may not be correct, please could someone (chanders?) let me know.

# Basic USP plugin

import gtk
import gtk.glade
import sys
import os
import gobject
import datetime
import gconf
import commands
from execute import Execute
from easygconf import SetGconf

class pluginclass:
    """This is the main class for the plugin"""
    """It MUST be named pluginclass"""

    def __init__(self):

        #The Glade file for the plugin
        self.gladefile = "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/usp/plugins/plugin1.glade"

        #Read GLADE file
        self.wTree = gtk.glade.XML(self.gladefile,"window1")

        #These properties are NECESSARY to maintain consistency
        #throughout USP

        #Set 'window' property for the plugin (Must be the root widget)
        self.window = self.wTree.get_widget("window1")

        #Set 'heading' property for plugin
        self.heading = "Time and Date"

        #This should be the first item added to the window in glade
        self.content_holder = self.wTree.get_widget("eventbox1")

        #Specify plugin width
        self.width = 150

        #Plugin icon
        self.icon = 'gnome-set-time'

        self.gconf_dir = '/apps/usp/plugins/computer'
        self.client = gconf.client_get_default()
        self.client.add_dir('/apps/usp/plugins/computer', gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
        self.client.notify_add('/apps/usp/plugins/computer/eu_date_format',self.RegenPlugin)

        self.RegenPlugin()
        gobject.timeout_add(1000, self.date_time)

    def RegenPlugin(self, *args, **kargs):
        self.GetGconfEntries()
        self.get_gconf_info()

    def SetupEvents(self):
        #Connect event handlers
        dic = {"on_window1_destroy" : gtk.main_quit}
        self.wTree.signal_autoconnect(dic)

    def GetGconfEntries(self):
        self.client = gconf.client_get_default()
        self.eudate = SetGconf(self.client,'bool','/apps/usp/plugins/computer/eu_date_format', False)

    def get_gconf_info(self, *args, **kwargs):
        resolution=freq=gtktheme=icontheme=None
        resolution = self.client.get_string('/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/resolution')
        freq = self.client.get_int('/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/rate')
        icontheme = self.client.get_string('/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme')
        gtktheme = self.client.get_string('/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme')

    #Actually do something with the plugin
    def date_time(self):
        try:
             if self.eudate == 0:
                self.wTree.get_widget("label1").set_label('<span size="20000" weight="bold">' + datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%m-%d-%Y") + '</span>')
            else:
                self.wTree.get_widget("label1").set_label('<span size="20000" weight="bold">' + datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%d-%m-%Y") + '</span>')


            self.wTree.get_widget("label2").set_label('<span size="20000" weight="bold">' + datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%H:%M:%S") + '</span>')
        except:
            pass
        return True

Looks great! I will add your patch for the next release ;-)

Check your pm...

i like usp really really much, but do you have any idea when you release the next release? because the little bug that it doesnt remember all the positions etc is a little bit annoying:-k i hope it's coming fast, nice job dude! :)

I'm good with USP. Thanks for doing it, bud.

Wondered if you would like to take a look at my version of the USPtime plugin. I've created a slightly different layout for the plugin1.glade file and altered the USPtime.py. plugin1.glade now has a button to set the date and time. USPtime.py adds the following keys to /apps/usp/plugins/datetime

eu_date_format (for switching mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy this can also be read from the USPcomputer.py file so everything is in one place) settings_date_bold (fairly obvious) :) settings_date_font_size (as per the one in the other plugins) settings_date_sep (this is the character to use as seperator in numeric date as in - or / ) settings_date_string (shows the date as text as in "Sep 8, 2006") settings_day_string (show the day as well if date_string is set as in "Fri. Sep 8, 2006") settings_time_12_hour (shows the time in 12 hour am/pm format) settings_time_bold (fairly obvious) settings_time_font_size (as per the one in the other plugins) system_command1 (this is set to run 'gksu time-admin' as per the USPcomputer.py command structure)

I've attached the files if you want to give them a look.

Edit: Don't forget to back up or rename the original files before you unpack or you will lose your originals.

As you can see from the attached thumbnail I've also altered the USPcomputer plugin to show or hide the date too so you haven't got both. This can be done with any of the buttons in this version. Using keys in gconf at /apps/usp/plugins/computer/hide_computer /apps/usp/plugins/computer/hide_control /apps/usp/plugins/computer/hide_date /apps/usp/plugins/computer/hide_net /apps/usp/plugins/computer/hide_screen /apps/usp/plugins/computer/hide_theme

Plus a calendar that opens evolution when a date is double-clicked, unfortunately not on the date clicked but I'm working on that.

Plus User display of Name and Face which also adds font alteration with gconf entries at: /apps/usp/plugins/user/font_bold /apps/usp/plugins/user/font_size /apps/usp/plugins/user/hide_logged_on /apps/usp/plugins/user/name_below

Get plugins here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=272372

I would like to translate USP in italian... what can i do?

neymac said: I'm using USP 0.33 working fine, installed with synaptic.

I forgot wich is the repository for the last stable version.

Is 0.33 the last stable version of USP? If not, which is it's repository?

I found it.

deb http://www.beerorkid.com/compiz/ dapper main

But at http://www.beerorkid.com/compiz/ the last version is:

usp (0.33-1) [Download]
Ubuntu System Panel
Simple launcher for the GNOME desktop, providing easy access to Places, Applications and common configuration items for your computer.

@ Malac - Congrats, you just made/edited the first plugin that I will be including in the next release ;)

chanders said: @ Malac - Congrats, you just made/edited the first plugin that I will be including in the next release ;)

Thanks, it's much appreciated. Couldn't e-mail with attachments so I have attached the USPtime and USPcomputer files to the first post. #522 Plus a clickable calendar.py and plugin2.glade that opens evolution on double-click can't get the date selection on open to work so it just opens on today Created key /apps/usp/plugins/calendar/system_command1

Maybe i'm missing something, but how can I change from the icons on the left in the menu to just the name??? And how do i prevent these buttons from disappearing when I click them? Using 0.41 @ the moment.

Edit: reverted back to 0.33.1 and looks ok now :-D

You want to change the icons in place menu or get them out? You can choose another theme to change them. If you right click on one off them and choose edit you can see in the little menu that opens at the bottom a place where your icons get from. Maybe,but I didn't try that,you can change this or remove it for no icon.

Chanders... Thanks a bunch for all the work!

I did not read all 50 some pages... close though! Is there a plan to make it so right click enables the add to desktop or add to panel or edit feature for Applications and Computer items? As is is now, mine only has this on the Places menu. If I right click something in Applications menu it offers to "add to favorites" only.

Also I have seen screenies of people's USP that had their log in name and photo on there... I didnt see this in gconf editor. Is it there?

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=255381

Thanks!

Okay, took me all day but here is my terminal emulator first draught. it requires libvte4 package. It creates two keys for width and height under /apps/usp/plugins/terminal Unfortunately these don't alter dynamically yet but I'll work on it. Other than that it's a terminal. :smile: [ATTACH]15687[/ATTACH] Edit: Uploaded a new USPterm to this post and a new USPconfig to post 541 page 55 which now add colour to the terminal. This is a bit hit and miss at the moment due to colour calculations for the vte palette I think and it does require that you remove USPterm from the plugins list then add it again. If that doesn't work restart USP and repeat the process. Don't know why this works but as you can see from the next attachment it does. [ATTACH]15880[/ATTACH] Now does Background Picture if you want. [ATTACH]16311[/ATTACH]

Get plugins here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=272372

I must say, you are doing some excellent work, not to mention knocking off plugins like crazy! Brilliant!

Quick note: The Terminal starts up in the root directory. By adding this line

os.chdir(os.path.expanduser("~"))

just before

self.terminal = vte.Terminal()

It will start up in the users home directory..

okay chanders, I'll update the tar now. Edit : Or after they've finished updating the database. :) Any ideas on the width and height not updating immediately?

'Tis Done.

Edit : Is there a good online reference to what all the widget methods and properties are, preferably with some code examples? Most of the time spent so far has been trying to find out what they are and how to alter them in Python.

Malac said: Is there a good online reference to what all the widget methods and properties are, preferably with some code examples?

Most of the time spent so far has been trying to find out what they are and how to alter them in Python.

I am afraid not.. I just like you, have learnt PyGTK by trial and error. This makes development time consuming. There is an online reference that I make reference to here and a good FAQ to help with some examples here... Hope it helps you continue your excellent work

Cheers chanders, I'll checkout the links tomorrow, very tired as I'm working on a major upgrade to some of my win32 progs at the mo. Dive in at the deep end, has always worked for me. Did the same when I learned C, C++, dBase, DBC, Clipper, etc.

Can i get the source for USP

.

vishytk said: Can i get the source for USP

Download the .deb file, extract it or install it and look for the file "usp" in /usr/bin

Hi chanders,

I would like to know, how to add new items to the Computer pane. In the gconf I find just six system_commands: system_command1=gnome-system-monitor system_command2=gksu network-admin system_command3=gksu time-admin system_command4=gnome-theme-manager system_command5=gnome-display-properties and system_command6=gcontrol, but I would like to add another one jet: gconf-editor. I tried do that but no success! I added in the gconf-editor: apps/usp: name=syste-command7, type=string, value=gconf-editor, apps/usp/plugins/computer: name=/apps/usp/plugins/computer/system_command7, type=string, value=gconf-editor. But on the USP screen, on the Settings pane I don't see the new item. How should I do properly?

Thank you very much for advance.

fantan

Okay another "experimental" plugin. USPconfig This has settings to alter USP instead of opening gconf-editor. It works with my current set of plugins, post #522 on page 53 and post #532 on page 54 of this thread. As I don't have an untouched copy of USP 0.41.1 or the standard plugins I haven't tested it on them. Worst case you can still go back to gconf-editor. :) Here are some screenshots: [ATTACH]15812[/ATTACH][ATTACH]15813[/ATTACH][ATTACH]15814[/ATTACH][ATTACH]15815[/ATTACH] I have not done the syscommandx actions on purpose. I think I've got all the other relevant settings, if I've missed any settings out please let me know. Hope you enjoy.

Edit: As a few people have asked how to install this here are the instructions these should work for my other plugins too. Untar the files in USP---------.tar.gz into either /home/YOURUSERNAME/.usp/plugins hidden folder or as root in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/usp/plugins. And add USP-------- to the plugins list in gconf-editor at /apps/usp/plugins_list. Replacing YOURUSERNAME with your username And USP--------- with name of plugin, e.g. USPconfig, USPtime, etc.

Edit new USPconfig for changing new USPterm terminal(post 532 page 54) colours.

Maybe you guys missed my post a while ago. When I have a panel on top of the screen with USP on it, I cannot maximise a window, or have one closer than about 1/4". If I do, the USP panel will open, but once the mouse moves into the USP panel the panel closes on its own. If I move the window down just a bit then its fine.

Hi malac,

Your new 'experimental' plugin (USPconfig) is very-very nice and I think it is also very-very useful. My congratulations!

I've downloaded and installed it, everithing goas fine on my system. It's true, that I use your plugins as well. Yust one thing: How can one localize (translate to other languages e.g. Hungarian) the content of the panels? I tried it but modify the file USPconfig.glade will be take a lot of time!

But if you thing I can make the Hungarian translation.

Best regards,

fantan

fantan said: Hi malac,

Your new 'experimental' plugin (USPconfig) is very-very nice and I think it is also very-very useful. My congratulations!

I've downloaded and installed it, everithing goas fine on my system. It's true, that I use your plugins as well. Glad you liked it fantan. \\:D/

fantan said: Yust one thing: How can one localize (translate to other languages e.g. Hungarian) the content of the panels? I tried it but modify the file USPconfig.glade will be take a lot of time!

But if you thing I can make the Hungarian translation.

Best regards,

fantan I don't know how glade handles localized strings if someone wants to let me know what I have to do in glade to make it except some sort of external input or translated labels. If you want to send me a list of the translated phrases I will try to do a new glade file or feel free to do one yourself. :grin:

honestly, i'm not fond of the idea of having a plugin to configure the applet itself. it is surely a good intermediate solution, but i hope for it being deprecated soon.

why? because all other applets have own configure-functions in the context menu of the applet. to ensure a consistent user experience, one would have to create such an entry and open this function in an own window. one example for this would be the deskbar applet.

i still appreciate the work done, because i suppose one can easily move this to an own window whenever neccessary (hooray for glade and copypaste ;))

Hi malac,

I don't know exactly ho to attach pictures or other things to my message here, because I never did that before. But I'll try. See: [ATTACH]15824[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]15825[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]15826[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]15827[/ATTACH] These pictures are part of the USPconfig pane after I started translate the USPconfig.glade file. Of course these are not all but just some templates.

To make a full translation I must find in the USPconfig.glade file all source phrases and write the translated words insteed. For example: . . . <child> <widget class="GtkLabel" id="SettingsLabel"> <property name="visible">True</property> insteed of this line: <property name="label" translatable="yes">Main Settings</property> this one: <property name="label" translatable="yes">Beállítások</property> . . But it takes a lot of time and not effective at all. Do you know any other solution?

fantan

-fin said: honestly, i'm not fond of the idea of having a plugin to configure the applet itself. it is surely a good intermediate solution, but i hope for it being deprecated soon.

why? because all other applets have own configure-functions in the context menu of the applet. to ensure a consistent user experience, one would have to create such an entry and open this function in an own window. one example for this would be the deskbar applet.

i still appreciate the work done, because i suppose one can easily move this to an own window whenever neccessary (hooray for glade and copypaste ;))

Yes I thought of doing this as a standalone app but I've only just started coding in glade and python, about 3 weeks ago now I think, and this was all I could manage at the moment with my limited knowledge.(Thanks to chanders for help and code comments in the original app/plugins and some web crawling.)

I thought of adding it to the right-click menu of the app button, where the "About" entry is, but my attempts at this just kept screwing USP up so I aborted them for now.

This was just a quick solution as I had seen a lot of requests for another way to configure USP. And as you say someone else may be able to re-use some of my work from the glade or python files.

fantan said:

[ATTACH]15824[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]15825[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]15826[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]15827[/ATTACH] These pictures are part of the USPconfig pane after I started translate the USPconfig.glade file. Of course these are not all but just some templates.

Looking good so far fantan. I think, as I don't read Hungarian. :)

> fantan said:

To make a full translation I must find in the USPconfig.glade file all source phrases and write the translated words insteed. .......... But it takes a lot of time and not effective at all. Do you know any other solution?

That is what I would have done . I'm afraid I don't know any other solution other than searching for all the "translatable=yes" parts of the tags. Sorry.

Great work Malac. Just to let you know I will be packaging all of your plugins with USP2 when it is released..

Just for the benefit of our users, I will be modifying the config plugin to be a stand-alone config shortly (Before USP2 is released) so Malac if you like you can continuine working on it without worrying if it is taking too much space in the menu ;-)

Hi malac, I thought that there isn't such method I'm looking for. Because of this I began do the translation as you proposed. The first tag of the USPconfig pane after Hungarian translation looks like this: [ATTACH]15861[/ATTACH]

I'm going translate all tags to. But in this case the problem is that if anybody will modify anything in original file (USPconfig.glade), I will have to retranslate all the "translatable=yes" parts of the tags.

In any way I'm looking forward for all new versions too.

Best regards, fantan

Is there somewhere else that I should post for support, or did you just miss my post?

Posted updated USPterm and USPconfig. The USPterm now does colour and the USPconfig has been altered to take that into account. So as not to upload multiple versions I've changed the originals at : USPterm is at post #532 page 54 USPconfig is at post #541 page 55

toasted said: Is there somewhere else that I should post for support, or did you just miss my post?

Actually I didnt miss your post... It's just I cant make anything of why USP would open if you maximize a window *scratches head*

USP is a button on the GNOME panel. The only way it should open is if it is clicked...

What happens if the USP button is placed at different places on the top panel?

chanders said: Actually I didnt miss your post... It's just I cant make anything of why USP would open if you maximize a window *scratches head*

USP is a button on the GNOME panel. The only way it should open is if it is clicked...

What happens if the USP button is placed at different places on the top panel?

No, it doesnt open on its own, sorry I should have worded it better. If a window is maximised or within 1/4" of the top panel, and usp is installed in top panel on left...

Then when you click and open USP, you cannot move the mouse into the USP menu because it closes. If you move the window down a little (more than 1/4") then the menu works fine.

See now?

Edit, attached a screen shot. In this scenario if I open the USP menu by clicking the panel button, I cannot move the mouse into it because it disappears. This really is where I want to use it but cannot due to this trouble. I'm running xgl/compiz, cairo-clock and kiba-dock if that matters

This looks great - good work.

However, the control center does nothing for me - I'd happily remove it if I could, but I'd prefer it to work.

Any ideas?

Cheers Bryan

bryanchapman9999 said: This looks great - good work.

However, the control center does nothing for me - I'd happily remove it if I could, but I'd prefer it to work.

Any ideas?

Cheers Bryan

Yea, you have to install the control center before it will work. Check Synaptic.

toasted said: if I open the USP menu by clicking the panel button, I cannot move the mouse into it because it disappears. This really is where I want to use it but cannot due to this trouble. I'm running xgl/compiz, cairo-clock and kiba-dock if that matters

I use my panel at the bottom. I moved it to the top (with USP top left) and followed you description:

toasted said: If a window is maximised or within 1/4" of the top panel, and usp is installed in top panel on left...

Then when you click and open USP, you cannot move the mouse into the USP menu because it closes.

No problems here. Compiz AIGLX, Edgy. Maybe different on Edgy?

Uncle Spellbinder said: Maybe different on Edgy?

It might be yea but this trouble i'm having is on Dapper. It has been like that since I installed USP as I run kiba-dock at the bottom and panel at top (thats my preference anyway). I can run it at the top as long as I keep windows away from it. For now I just dont use it, it's too annoying like this.

Thanks for checking it out anyway :)

Edit: I must be the only one that has this trouble... very odd

toasted said: It might be yea but this trouble i'm having is on Dapper. It has been like that since I installed USP as I run kiba-dock at the bottom and panel at top (thats my preference anyway). I can run it at the top as long as I keep windows away from it. For now I just dont use it, it's too annoying like this.

Thanks for checking it out anyway :)

Edit: I must be the only one that has this trouble... very odd Perhaps it's something to do with kiba-dock?

Malac said: Perhaps it's something to do with kiba-dock?

If I close Kiba-dock it still does it... but it must be something specific to my system.

I went through all the csm settings turning them off one at a time and checking the USP menu each time. Nothing made the trouble go away. Switching to Metacity in csm does make the trouble go away however.

I guess I have been running compiz since I first installed UPS so that must be the conflict. I have the install where I can choose xgl or metacity at boot screen so I will boot into metacity there and see what happens.

Ok I am now in a normal Dapper Gnome session and USP behaves correctly regardless of window position. Im current with compiz Quinn-Storm updates and just got the updated 686 kernel today.

Any suggestions? Its not a biggie but I thought you guys would like to know......

Edit: sorry I didnt think to try this before....

Ok I found out what does it. I had unchecked "click to focus" in general options of CSM. In this condition one simply has to mouse over a window to give it focus.

When I checked the 'click to focus' box then USP started to behave as it should. Now, this is probably a compiz thing so I will post there.

Thanks for listening :)

I love USP, but I have a request:

Instead of a 55+ page forum thread tracking releases, plugins, etc... would it be possible to create a DEB repository with USP and all the plugins? Reading through page upon page of the thread looking for the latest "download it here" link is getting a bit tedious.

I have never set up a deb repo before, but back in my Fedora days I set up plenty of yum servers, and it's pretty simple.

I will talk to Quinn and see if we can get that done. For now I will make a new thread just for plugin downloads.

[SIZE=2]Hi chanders and all, I finally ported the USPconfig plugin to a seperate standalone app which I have attached to this post for you to checkout. As ever if there are some settings missing let me know. Perhaps a pre-defined button in USP could launch this. [/SIZE][ATTACH]16270[/ATTACH] [SIZE=2] Anyway, I'm working on the USPuser plugin at the mo as I see some people like the picture above the name so I will see about incorporating that.

And still trying to see if I can figure out the USPterm colour issues.

[B]Edit: [/B]USPconfig Application now at post #573 page 58. [/SIZE]

Malac said: [SIZE=2]Hi chanders and all,

I finally ported the USPconfig plugin to a seperate standalone app which I have attached to this post for you to checkout. As ever if there are some settings missing let me know. Perhaps a pre-defined button in USP could launch this. [ATTACH]16146[/ATTACH] Anyway, I'm working on the USPuser plugin at the mo as I see some people like the picture above the name so I will see about incorporating that.

And still trying to see if I can figure out the USPterm colour issues.[/SIZE]

how do we use it?

pretty.... thank you...

[SIZE=2]> delfick said:

how do we use it?

Untar the files into your home folder somewhere or /usr/bin. If in /usr/bin you will need to do this as root. Right-Click, change Permissions to Execute for Owner, Groups and Others

./USPconfig (from the folder)

I've also re-done the USPuser plugin to allow for changing Username position to below the picture and hiding/showing of logged on time.

[B]Edit : Please re-download the file from original post as there was a bug with the plugins list in the previous version. [/B]I see 8 people have downloaded it.Sorry for the bug but it should not have effected your USP.[/SIZE]

Malac said: [SIZE=2]

Untar the files into your home folder somewhere or /usr/bin. If in /usr/bin you will need to do this as root. Right-Click, change Permissions to Execute for Owner, Groups and Others

./USPconfig (from the folder)

thnx for that (though i prefer it in /usr/sbin so that typing USPconfig in the terminal from within any folder, opens it up :D)

good stuff too :D much better than as a plugin in the USP menu.....

though, can it be made as another icon in the system plugin thingo so it appears on the toggle pane when compact_system_management is chosen? (speaking of which, where is that option in USPconfig?)

thnx for all ur hard work :D :D

delfick said: thnx for that (though i prefer it in /usr/sbin so that typing USPconfig in the terminal from within any folder, opens it up :D)

good stuff too :D much better than as a plugin in the USP menu.....

though, can it be made as another icon in the system plugin thingo so it appears on the toggle pane when compact_system_management is chosen? (speaking of which, where is that option in USPconfig?)

thnx for all ur hard work :D :D

I'm not sure how integrated chanders wants to make this with USP itself. At the moment I just made an entry in my 'Applications' section to launch it. Sorry about the compact system toggle I wasn't sure what was happening with this as it is now a seperate plugin so I left it out. If it is staying in then I'll include it in the next posted version.

help me plz. i put c:Usp:90 in csm but nothing result(sorry my english)

.nat said: help me plz. i put c:Usp:90 in csm but nothing result(sorry my english)

Use w:Menu:80 , For 80 transparency.

New plugin USPnotes. [ATTACH]16714[/ATTACH] A sort of quick notes thing. Save Button saves the file to the users Desktop with the name from the current time in the form yyyymmdd-hh:mm:ss e.g. 20061002-10:53:24 if no filename is provided or it will append the text from the filename field to the beginning e.g. SomeFile20061002-10:53:24. Clear Button clears the "pad" and filename field.

GConf Keys: /apps/usp/plugins/notes/height /apps/usp/plugins/notes/width

I have also uploaded a new USPconfig App. to this post which incorporates this plugin.

[SIZE=2][/SIZE]Get them here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=272372

Malac said: New plugin USPnotes.

[ATTACH]16714[/ATTACH] A sort of quick notes thing. Save Button saves the file to the users Desktop with the name from the current time in the form yyyymmdd-hh:mm:ss e.g. 20061002-10:53:24 if no filename is provided or it will append the text from the filename field to the beginning e.g. SomeFile20061002-10:53:24. Clear Button clears the "pad" and filename field.

GConf Keys: /apps/usp/plugins/notes/height /apps/usp/plugins/notes/width

I have also uploaded a new USPconfig App. to this post which incorporates this plugin.

let the attached screenshot speak for me :D...... (look at the quick notes section of the menu...:D)

delfick said: let the attached screenshot speak for me :D......

(look at the quick notes section of the menu...:D) Thanks delfick, :) Cheered me this morning.

*Very Basic* Recent Documents Plugin :)

USPrecent [ATTACH]16805[/ATTACH] Gconf Keys: /apps/usp/plugins/height /apps/usp/plugins/width /apps/usp/plugins/recent_font_size /apps/usp/plugins/num_entries

If someone wants to improve this by adding icons, changed background colour etc., please feel free.

[SIZE=2][B]Edit : Fixed the colour issue.

[/B][/SIZE]Get it here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=272372

Malac said: If someone wants to improve this by adding icons, changed background colour etc., please feel free.

Will be making all items into buttons for easy access..

Ok an update for all the USP/Malac fans ;-).

USP2 is done. But I am not goint to release it until I am sure we have met all our goals. And so far we are nearly 100% there.

I am trying to get all the requests in and I have to thank Malac for really helping out with all the work he has been doing.

Currently I am working on USPslab as it was supposed to be the highlight of this release, but now we have so much more to offer with all the new plugins.

USP2 will be released as a Beta for beta testing and when the bugs are ironed out we will have the final release...

Chanders

chanders said: Will be making all items into buttons for easy access..

It doesn't show up on the screenshot but they already are buttons. :) Just couldn't get the background colour to take.

chanders said: USP2 is done.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

USP2 will be released as a Beta for beta testing and when the bugs are ironed out we will have the final release...

that sounds cool :D

ahawks said: I love USP, but I have a request:

Instead of a 55+ page forum thread tracking releases, plugins, etc... would it be possible to create a DEB repository with USP and all the plugins? Reading through page upon page of the thread looking for the latest "download it here" link is getting a bit tedious.

I have never set up a deb repo before, but back in my Fedora days I set up plenty of yum servers, and it's pretty simple.

I absolutely second it, after using USP for 24 hours, I would love to have the configuration tool and the plugins but it is very confusing. For example, I cannot figure out where to download the configuration tool from.

Great work! USP is fantastic.

chanders said: Will be making all items into buttons for easy access..

Ok an update for all the USP/Malac fans ;-).

USP2 is done. But I am not goint to release it until I am sure we have met all our goals. And so far we are nearly 100% there.

I am trying to get all the requests in and I have to thank Malac for really helping out with all the work he has been doing.

Currently I am working on USPslab as it was supposed to be the highlight of this release, but now we have so much more to offer with all the new plugins.

USP2 will be released as a Beta for beta testing and when the bugs are ironed out we will have the final release...

Chanders

Good news!. Thanks so much for the work with USP. And Malac, too. :-D

USP is really great. Thanks for this great work, i'm looking forward for USP2 :-D

USPconfig Application and all my plugins will now be at this thread.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=272372

Please don't post on that thread. If you have a plugin that you want added to the list send it as attachment to: Malac[at]tiscali[dot]co[dot]uk [at]=@ [dot]=. with "USP plugin" as the subject line.

Thanks.

What is the reason of makeing usp 2? Is something wrong with usp?

kwalo said: What is the reason of makeing usp 2? Is something wrong with usp?

LOL, no. USP2 is actually a complete rewrite of USP. I had no idea USP would have been so popular, so while I was coding it, I used less than efficient methods to achieve the look and feel. Now because of inputs from all the users, I am now ironing out the bugs not to mention make a product that is a little more refined, both technically and graphically.

This also makes it easier for users to write plugins and help in the bug fixing. USP2 also allow users to create their own mini menus than can look totally different from USP. That way if a user is using a screen resolution that is small for example they can load a mini version of the menu.

Also, the idea for USP came after using SuSE's Slab menu. So with USP2 I am including a USPSlab plugin which effectively gives users the Slab look with a lot more configurability than they could ever get without having to compile everything like you had to do with Slab. USPSlab would only be possible by adding to the existing USP API, hence USP2.

So, when usp 2 becomes stable, can you call it usp version 1.0 ? I know the name doesn't matter, but, if you abandon a project, that din't make to 1.0 release and start another project and call it 'beta software' that wouldn't make it more popular.

It will still be called USP and probably be bumped up to Ver 1.0 :-D USP2 was more of a codeword for the rewritten version..

but but... but we want to try it now... =)

Sorry, I can't read through 59 pages of thread...

Is there a package repository for this (or is this on a package repository) so I could hopefully get updates as soon as they come available? USP is a wonderful piece of software and I didn't realize how many new features have been added since the first time I installed it :)

I believe repo doesn't exist yet! We would need a vollunter that would host the repo

Uploaded a new version of USPconfig to here. This was a bug fix for the plugins list in USPconfig re-populating on certain setting changes. It should not have affected USP itself at all.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=272372

i liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike it very good,i think i will go on edgy...do you if it will work on edgy, do you tested it on the beta?

however..nice job ;D

Gargamella said: i liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike it very good,i think i will go on edgy...do you if it will work on edgy, do you tested it on the beta?

however..nice job ;D I'm glad you liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike it. :) I haven't tested it on edgy myself yet but I see no reason why it wouldn't work okay. A few of the other USP users on this forum have used it on edgy already so it would seem to be okay.

Hope this helps.

I'm running USP on Edgy and it works just fine. Only problem I found is that the menu doesn't follow with my theme, but perhaps I'm missing a setting.

not to sound whiney or anything, but any updates on getting closer to USP2? I check up on forums every once in a while and I'm just a little nervous by the lack of posts/activity.

Basically, are there still plans for this to come out in the near future?

That is all. Thanks for the time and effort you guys put into this project, making the Ubuntu world a better place.

@ Hobbes

From the *_Your last screenshot before USP 2..._* thread:

20, October - 2006

chanders said: ...I have lots of real life stuff to do, so USP has to be done in my spare time. I changed jobs and have exams for my masters in December. But I still try my best. I can release it but what is the point if there will still be a lot of little fixes that people want and cant be fixed until later?

Sorry again guys, but I haven't given up on you all....

is there any plans to let the user use a png of any size for the "start button" so i could make one that say looked like the xp green button or some crap?

USP2 is supposed to include that feature... but chanders is rather busy right now, so release date on that is undetermined.

Dunno if anyone mentioned/asked this, but why isn't this in the repositories?

beautiful! need a bettter image host though ;)

Actually, an earlier version is in Quinn's repository (see wiki.beryl-project.org for repository details)

When USP2 comes out I willtry to get it its own repository...

And yeah the images was caused by the DIGG! effect ;-)

chanders said: When USP2 comes out

............

what can we expect from this release ?? :D

This is really smooth. How can I get it to load automagically; can I add launchers to it (unreal tournament and such), and control center does not work for me.

Here's what I get when I launch it from terminal:

ticklemonster@MSHOME:~$ usp run-in-window
Warning! - Icon for item not found!
Warning! - Icon for item not found!
Directory created
Directory created
Directory created
Empty places.list: Populating
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-home.desktop
Desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/-home-ticklemonster-Desktop.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-computer.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/network-scheme.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-home.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/-home-ticklemonster-Desktop.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-computer.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/network-scheme.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-home.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/-home-ticklemonster-Desktop.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-computer.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/network-scheme.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-home.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/-home-ticklemonster-Desktop.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-computer.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/network-scheme.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-home.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/-home-ticklemonster-Desktop.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-computer.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/network-scheme.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-home.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/-home-ticklemonster-Desktop.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-computer.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/network-scheme.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-home.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/-home-ticklemonster-Desktop.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/nautilus-computer.desktop
Place added - /home/ticklemonster/.usp/places/network-scheme.desktop

(usp:7064): Bonobo-WARNING **: Never got frame, control died - abnormal exit condition
ticklemonster@MSHOME:~$ 

I don't know if this bug has been pointed out before, the thread is so long to check. Today I installed a package I made myself from source for a program that find italian zipcodes. After installing usp didn't started. Running it with *usp run-in-window* it gives the following error messages:

gborzi@evo610:~$ usp run-in-window

Warning! - Icon for item not found! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1769, in ? menu_factory(app, None) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1749, in menu_factory MenuWin(applet, iid) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1565, in __init__ self.mainwin = MainWindow(self) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 145, in __init__ self.Todos() File "/usr/bin/usp", line 829, in Todos PlaceIcon = self.get_proper_icon(datalist[i][5:],icon_size) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 757, in get_proper_icon Image1.set_from_pixbuf(gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(icon_description).scale_simple(width,height,gtk.gdk.INTERP_BILINEAR)) gobject.GError: Failed to load image '/usr/share/pixmaps/trovacap.xpm': Invalid XBM file i.e. an invalid pixmap can crash usp. I think that in such cases usp should give a warning and use the default icon (that for programs missing their own icon).

I Didn't found an answer using the forum search, and I'm to lazy to read all the 61 pages, so I ask my question hoping it isn't answered yet:

Is it possible to open the USP-menu on hitting the windows key? I 've been trying some things in the gconf-editor > nautilus > shortcuts, But running usp doesn't open the menu.

thanks anyway!

Choxo said: I Didn't found an answer using the forum search,

and I'm to lazy to read all the 61 pages, so I ask my question hoping it isn't answered yet:

Is it possible to open the USP-menu on hitting the windows key? I 've been trying some things in the gconf-editor > nautilus > shortcuts, But running usp doesn't open the menu.

thanks anyway! Sorry for the "non-answer" but this has been requested before and is hopefully on the list of things to do once it can be figured out how to do it. :) At the moment I think it is someway down the list of todo's.

where can I find the latest version of USP to try out?

Permafrost91 said: where can I find the latest version of USP to try out?

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=229014 Posts 3 and 4

Malac said: Sorry for the "non-answer" but this has been requested before and is hopefully on the list of things to do once it can be figured out how to do it. :)

At the moment I think it is someway down the list of todo's. Is it even posible to do it without patching gnome? At least to get alt+F1 to open slab in Ubuntu you had to patch gnome and recompile gnome.

M7S said: Is it even posible to do it without patching gnome? At least to get alt+F1 to open slab in Ubuntu you had to patch gnome and recompile gnome.

It would to use the Alt+F1 but it may be possible but needs to be looked at.

waiting for usp2 ^^ i just need that "bigger" image support so i can replace old menu totally :> really cool btw ;)

M7S is right. We wont be able to assign a hotkey unless GNOME is patched so it wont be included in USP2 (unless someone writes the patch ;-)) sorry...

The System managment in the USP doesn't look well. It's icons look weird, any ideas?

hoagie said: The System managment in the USP doesn't look well. It's icons look weird, any ideas?

Screenshot?

[[IMG]http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/305/2269zo8.th.jpg[/IMG]](http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2269zo8.jpg)

hoagie said: [[IMG]http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/305/2269zo8.th.jpg[/IMG]](http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2269zo8.jpg)

go into gconf >> apps >> usp >> and tick the option that says "compact system management"

and then it will be as icons on the side bar....much better in my opinion

(can't wait till we're able to add user-defined shortcuts to that bar :D)

Yeah but still the icons don't look nice.

This is already fixed in USP2 ;-) When it comes out you'll have no problems...

how come I can't slide USP to anywhere on the panel? It behaves as if "Lock to Panel" is enabled although it is not

Permafrost91 said: how come I can't slide USP to anywhere on the panel? It behaves as if "Lock to Panel" is enabled although it is not

I haven't been able to figure out how to get this done in python as yet. Any gurus out there? Also, how do I add an Item to the right click menu on applets?

Thanks!

Permafrost91 said: how come I can't slide USP to anywhere on the panel? It behaves as if "Lock to Panel" is enabled although it is not

Strange this works for me with metacity and beryl, I can slide it about anywhere I like. Have you tried using one of the <Alt>, <Shift> or <Ctrl> keys and making sure the other things on the panel aren't locked so stopping usp from taking up that space.

i can move mine

using gnome and beryl...

chanders said: Also, how do I add an Item to the right click menu on applets?

Thanks! Hi chanders, This code adds a "Preferences" entry to the right-click menu as well as the "About" entry. The function for "Prefs" here is set to None at the mo but can be any function or to launch USPconfig or something. :) Mine is set up to run USPconfig.

 [SIZE=1]       self.propxml="""
               <popup name="button3">
                <menuitem name="Item 1" verb="Prefs" label="_Preferences..." pixtype="stock" pixname="gtk-properties"/>
                   <menuitem name="Item 1" verb="About" label="_About" pixtype="stock" pixname="gtk-about"/>
                 </popup>
                 """
        self.verbs = [ ( "Prefs", **None** ),( "About", self.showAboutDialog) ][/SIZE]

Malac, I can move everything else on my panel, like I said, USP is not "Locked to Panel" ... I have even created a new panel with only USP on it just to try it - no luck. Alt/Ctrl/Shift/etc doesn't help either.

By the way, what language is USP written in?

Permafrost91 said: By the way, what language is USP written in?

USP is written in Python. If you right click on USP and choose "Move" from the menu you should get a changed cursor and it should be move-able. At the moment USP can't be "grabbed" with the mouse and dragged.

Hope this helps.

This will off course be the default for USP2 ;)

Malac said: Hi chanders,

This code adds a "Preferences" entry to the right-click menu as well as the "About" entry. The function for "Prefs" here is set to None at the mo but can be any function or to launch USPconfig or something. :) Mine is set up to run USPconfig.

 [SIZE=1]      self.propxml="""[/SIZE]
[SIZE=1]              <popup name="button3">[/SIZE]
[SIZE=1]               <menuitem name="Item 1" verb="Prefs" label="_Preferences..." pixtype="stock" pixname="gtk-properties"/>[/SIZE]
[SIZE=1]                  <menuitem name="Item 1" verb="About" label="_About" pixtype="stock" pixname="gtk-about"/>[/SIZE]
[SIZE=1]                </popup>[/SIZE]
[SIZE=1]                """[/SIZE]
[SIZE=1]       self.verbs = [ ( "Prefs", **None** ),( "About", self.showAboutDialog) ][/SIZE]

Malac said: USP is written in Python.

If you right click on USP and choose "Move" from the menu you should get a changed cursor and it should be move-able. At the moment USP can't be "grabbed" with the mouse and dragged.

Hope this helps.

thanks, that did the trick ...

Just stumbled upon this one this morning. It works great here, well done chanders :)

This is great work! I've been using it for a few weeks now and really love it! Here are some things I'd like to see in future versions:

(1) the app finder (the search box on the bottom of the application menu) should be able to run a command like Alt-F2 does in addiition to searching for applications in the menu

(2) a file system browser like KDE has in its menu where each folder is a submenu with the files of the folder displayed as menu items (I'd actually like to see this in Gnome, period)

(3) recently used files

Lemme know what y'all think ... and do keep up the good work!

Permafrost91 said: This is great work! I've been using it for a few weeks now and really love it! Here are some things I'd like to see in future versions:

(1) the app finder (the search box on the bottom of the application menu) should be able to run a command like Alt-F2 does in addiition to searching for applications in the menu

(2) a file system browser like KDE has in its menu where each folder is a submenu with the files of the folder displayed as menu items (I'd actually like to see this in Gnome, period)

(3) recently used files

Lemme know what y'all think ... and do keep up the good work!

See here http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=327001 for starters ;)

• Depending on your theme, the colours may look off (not my fault!) Open gconf-editor and check 'Use custom colors' and enter the colour you would like to use. the default is a nice gray

i dont have a place to check it...where is it?](*,)

the colors i am getting by default is give in the screenshot....using version 0.41...help!!!

the setting is under apps->usp in gconf-editor

anyone seen this gimmie menu thingo http://www.beatniksoftware.com/blog/?p=53 ?? (of course you have :D)

what do people (you) think of that ??

(i still prefer usp :D)

I think it's a nice piece of software. It's a bit different from USP so it's not really a preference between the two. I think he is also planning to add plugins. It would be interesting to see how it turns out..

Maybe one day there might be an app that would give all the functionality of both USP and Gimmie..

chanders said: It's a bit different from USP so it's not really a preference between the two.

true :D

Maybe one day there might be an app that would give all the functionality of both USP and Gimmie..

lol.......maybe......:D

Can you tell me how to resize minimized and Maximized windows to fit in a 12.1 TFT Flat Panel?

I have a Dell Latitude LS P3 500, 256MB, 20 GB, with external media bay and installed Ubuntu 6.10. The screen size is to small for the default window sizes. The laptop is currently configured to display 800x600 @60hz @16bit depth. I have already edited the xorg.conf to display 1024x768 and it will not give me to change the resolution to 1024x768. So perhaps editing the window sizes to fit 800x600 with a 12.1 in screen might be the answer. The screen is a Samsung LTN121S6-T01 While the specs that I have found state that native resolution is 800x600 svga. I have been able to use 1024x768 in win98SE, winXP, Mandrake 9.2 and Xandros 2.0. I am having problems with the apply, change, close, forward and back buttons not appearing due to size of minimized window. I need help with either solution. Screen resolution or window sizes. Thanks, Darrell

This USP looks like a good replacement for those cascading gnome menus, but before I install it... is there a repository somewhere with USP in it?

Brand new to Ubuntu here!

Cheers

you can find the latest version here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=229014

download the .deb file and install it

Gimmie constantly crashes on my beryl install and it still lacks the functionality compared to USP.

Can someone tell me exactly what to do with USP and the latest Beryl SVN? USP always wants to open under all windows and sometimes it doesn't want to close until you click the icon again. It's driving me $%&% nuts! How do I give USP priority focus?

open gconf-editor apps->usp and make sure pin_menu is unchecked (if it's checked, the menu will stay open)

Also you have to set focus stealing in Beryl to 'none' to have it stay on top.

ok, newbie question: i can run it in a window from the cli, but how do i add it to the panel? it cant see it when i right click> add to panel.

You may need to logout of GNOME and then log back in or in a terminal type

killall gnome-panel

chanders said: You may need to logout of GNOME and then log back in or in a terminal type

thanks, and thanks for usp. its wicked

Hi I have been playing around with ideas ob how to change the Gnome panel. Anyways I was thinking of making a tweek where the menu is located on a left side bar instead of launching from the top panel. This has a few slight advantages in that you do not have to travel to the top panel to launch it and just have to go to the left side of the screen which you already have to do to get into the menus.

My idea goes a bit beyond that though the above might be highly desirable sort of a Ubuntu solution to the mac bar. I also currently use a left panel as an app launcher with big icons.

Another thing I was playing with is a more interactive left menu pannel with Ubuntu updater like pop ups with with menu info poping up. Your menu looks really nie and is kind of similar to what I had invisioned.

The number one reason for doing this is it will be 100% linux and hopefully becomes a Ubuntu feature in the Future

I really like USP. I have looked in this thread a bit but haven't seen this.... what happens when an icon of one of your launchers doesn't show up? what's the deal with that, and how to fix?

never mind, USP doesn't like GIFs while 'main menu' doesn't care. converting to PNG did the trick.

programs that are supposed to run in the terminal are launched but don't appear, if that makes sense. they run behind the system... don't know how to explain. seems to be a major bug. hope you understand. tried with hellanzb, works fine wih main menu but with USP it runs without the actual terminal window appearing.

I will look into this...

How do we know where the latest versions are kept? I am totally confused here, because it seems no single thread controls all versions. In one thread, the last update was in August 2006, which can't be true.

It would be very handy if USP had a website where you could check out its information, and also know what version is currently in use. This forum is making it only more confusing.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=229014

the latest release was 0.41 in August 2006 as far as I know ...

0.41 was the last release in USP1

1.92 alpha will be released soon-ish as USP2 and can be downloaded from SVN here is a really good howto on installing it Guide to USP2 SVN

and USP3 is currently in development, you can see a few screenshots / screencasts / mock-ups in this thread Vertical USP

I agree that the thread is a little cluttered. If there is anyone who can donate server space for a trac/SVN page that would be great.

PsyberOneZero said:

I agree that the thread is a little cluttered. If there is anyone who can donate server space for a trac/SVN page that would be

I am willing to donate space, although that means I will have to upgrade my current plan, which I was already intending on doing anyway. I will need to know how much space is needed, and what kind of a setup is planned. I also need to know what kind of bandwidth is needed.

Here is the information on what you need to set up a track server. Trac

Size requirements would be the size of the needed packages + the SVN repo.

I really don't know what the bandwidth is like, you might want to talk to zachtib, he is the lead developer of Deluge and has a Trac page setup.

Now this is kind of behind chanders back, I don't know if he has any plans for a site, hopefully he'll see this post.

PsyberOneZero said: Here is the information on what you need to set up a track server.

Trac

Size requirements would be the size of the needed packages + the SVN repo.

I really don't know what the bandwidth is like, you might want to talk to zachtib, he is the lead developer of Deluge and has a Trac page setup.

Now this is kind of behind chanders back, I don't know if he has any plans for a site, hopefully he'll see this post.

I am familiar with Trac (installing it shouldn't be difficult - using it is very easy), and I am sure the space it takes up will not be an issue, but bandwidth likely will be. As far as Deluge goes, the bandwidth really depends on the popularity of a website. I am pretty sure USP is more popular than Deluge, and it would attract far more hits.

is it possible to use the usp whilst not touching any files outside the home area ??

that way i'd be able to use the usp on the linux computers at my uni :D

(the engineering programming department uses linux (they use fedora 6 (i hate fedora :( ))

:D

It shouldnt be to difficult to make it portable. You will need to make sure you have the right version of python installed tho...

I can send you some steps to make your own portable version if you want the challenge ;-)

chanders said: I can send you some steps to make your own portable version if you want the challenge ;-)

i'd like that very much :D

thnx :D

but for now, i go to sleep :D :p (11.30pm over here :D and uni means i get up early...)

chanders said: I can send you some steps to make your own portable version if you want the challenge ;-)

excuse my persistence (and excuse me for persisting to excuse my persistence :p) ......what happened to that ?? :D

(no rush...just curious :D)

Hi, is there USP still being developed and active?

Fajer said: Hi,

is there USP still being developed and active? Yes it is. We are all working very hard to get it to release state. :D

Seriously, chanders, myself and all, are working whenever we can on USP, unfortunately other commitments sometimes get in the way. We hope to have a beta release very soon.

I'm asking, because I saw it on screens and it looks great. And I saw that last version 0.41 is from last year.

I tried to install 0.41 on Feisty and it broke my apt :( Now I can't even upgrade my system and install anything :(

Fajer said: I'm asking, because I saw it on screens and it looks great. And I saw that last version 0.41 is from last year.

I tried to install 0.41 on Feisty and it broke my apt :( Now I can't even upgrade my system and install anything :(

Sorry to hear it broke your Feisty install. Boot into recovery mode and then run ``` aptitude remove usp

aptitude purge usp

Here is a link to the 1.9x (Alpha): http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=331364 Although this still has some bugs in it.

Or the Latest copy in SVN. http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=231574

There is a Wiki which has explanations on how to install and configure the SVN version here: http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/w/list

Hope this helps. If not let me know.

I'm running the 1.92 Alpha on Feisty and I must say, it's an excellent piece of work. It beats the heck out of any other start menu I've worked with.

I had problems with instalation usp, so I'm using verion of usp taken from LinuxMint (mintMenu). You are doing great job people :)

Installation and operation went smoothly here on Fiesty.

Nicely done :)

very wow!

Ok, so I just happened to find USP after browsing through the June Desktop Screenshots. So I figured I'd give it a try. WOW. This is absolutely beautiful and exactly what I was looking for!

The SVN install went perfect, looks absolutely clean and stunning. Dev Team: Thanks for one GREAT app!

Just wanted to tell, that I, too, just discovered this excelent piece of code and wanted to express my greatfulness to the developers, please keep going :D

I bow to you. Bill

Fajer said: I had problems with instalation usp, so I'm using verion of usp taken from LinuxMint (mintMenu).

You are doing great job people :)

How about a how-to for mintmenu over ubuntu? Thanks!

Well I installed the SVN version of the panel and I do really like it but i have two problems:

1. There is no panel for "Places"
2. The "Control Center" button doesnt work

The "Control Center" button doesn't work with the latest stable version of USP either. I am going to guess there is no command programmed into the button for it.

JoshA said:

1. There is no panel for "Places"

Have you added it to the plugins list?

smartboyathome said: The "Control Center" button doesn't work with the latest stable version of USP either. I am going to guess there is no command programmed into the button for it.

This is set to gcontrol initially which isn't installed by default. This can be changed using right click on main button and choose "Preferences"

Malac said: Have you added it to the plugins list?

I tried to but everytime I refresh it goes away.:confused::confused:

Malac said: This is set to gcontrol initially which isn't installed by default. This can be changed using right click on main button and choose "Preferences"

Oh I fixed this. I changed gcontrol to gnome-control-center. Thanks :)

JoshA said: I tried to but everytime I refresh it goes away.:confused::confused:

You need to click [Save] to have the new list used [Refresh] is to reset the list back to the original order if you have made a mistake or similar. Perhaps I ought to change it from "Refresh" to "Reset".

Malac said: You need to click [Save] to have the new list used [Refresh] is to reset the list back to the original order if you have made a mistake or similar. Perhaps I ought to change it from "Refresh" to "Reset".

Hah I feel like an idiot. Thanks :popcorn:

JoshA said: Hah I feel like an idiot. Thanks :popcorn:

Not at all, this is what Beta testing is all about. If that button said "Reset" instead of "Refresh" you may have not had the problem. I think I will change it and add some tooltips too. Thanks JoshA :)

This USP is awesome. Just what I was looking for (actually a bit more than what I had asked for but extra never hurts) to pimp my Ubuntu system. Thanks for making this system possible and available to us all. Great work!

Malac said: Have you added it to the plugins list?

This is set to gcontrol initially which isn't installed by default. This can be changed using right click on main button and choose "Preferences"

Sorry what do you mean by the main button can you be more descriptive. Right clicking anywhere in usps menu gets me nowhere. Right clicking on the ubuntu system button that is placed when once selects ubuntu systme panel from add to panel doesnt do anything either. I was also curious about the weather plugin. I installed the latest stable not from svn should I be seeing stuff llke weather in my home/user/.usp directory, there is nothing in there now. Cool app is this going into the next ubuntu release because it definitely should :)

EDIT: I made all of these changes with gconf-editor changing gcontrol to gnome-control-center or whatever was the command to launch control center this had to been done in two places. Then I added the plugins in the plugins string according to their names listed on the page where I dl'd the package and all seems to be working. I dont know if that was supposed to be how it was done but that is how I did it. It has been along time since I had to use gconf-editor. The svn version looks nice with transparency and a little user gif. Hope it is ready for stable soon.

@dasbooter You should be able to right-click on the button that is added to the panel when you choose Ubuntu System Panel. This should bring up a menu that will definitely have an "About" option on it if it has no "Preferences" option then it maybe it wasn't enabled on early stables. If you let me know what version number the about dialog gives you I can probably help you. Try running ``` uspconfig

You should consider using the SVN as a lot of improvements and features have been added since the last .deb release, not to mention it is actually more stable now than the last */stable/* release. :)

Full instructions on how to install the SVN version are at the wiki:
[http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/w/list](http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/w/list)
and choose "Installation"

Hope this helps.

It is a great menu - but I am so used to accessing my menu using super-L. Is this feature implemented yet? I have seen a couple of posts in this thread mentioning about this back in last Aug, but I don't know if I can do it with this new version... thanks.

r_l said: It is a great menu - but I am so used to accessing my menu using super-L. Is this feature implemented yet? I have seen a couple of posts in this thread mentioning about this back in last Aug, but I don't know if I can do it with this new version... thanks.

Yes this is implemented in the SVN version. It is set to "<Ctrl><Alt>U" by default but this can be changed in the "Preferences" to what ever you want. Depending on keyboard layout this can be "Meta_L" or "Super_L".

Hope this helps.

Excellent menu, but how can you change the icons at the far left side to text and how can you reduce the gap the menu has from the panel?

Malac said: Yes this is implemented in the SVN version.

It is set to "<Ctrl><Alt>U" by default but this can be changed in the "Preferences" to what ever you want. Depending on keyboard layout this can be "Meta_L" or "Super_L".

Hope this helps.

Wow, the screenshot looks good! Thanks. I will try to install the SVN version, then.

r_l said: Wow, the screenshot looks good! Thanks. I will try to install the SVN version, then.

Here's some of my current Edgy menu.

Malac said: Here's some of my current Edgy menu.

I'm surprised you not using some beta version of usp3 ...

or is chanders the only one with that ?? :D

delfick said: I'm surprised you not using some beta version of usp3 ...

or is chanders the only one with that ?? :D The USP3 I have is still nowhere near ready as a usable menu yet. :( And I still can't seem to dedicate enough time to the project as I'd like to do.

Malac said: The USP3 I have is still nowhere near ready as a usable menu yet. :(

And I still can't seem to dedicate enough time to the project as I'd like to do.

damn......

oh well, it will be one day :D

Where can I download the latest version of USP? I have 0.41

I am also interested in discharging the it finishes version of the USP, I would also like to know if there is translation to Spanish.

Thank you.

@voided3 and Phil-Towers

Latest recommended version is the SVN beta which can be got by following the instructions here. http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/w/list Under "_Installation_".

Hope this helps.

Thank you for their information Malac.

Greetings from Mexico :)

It's nice but .... is there a chance you might make a native (C) version of this? I hardly see the 10 MB hit being well worth a menu bar. GTK+ in native C would only cost you about a MB or so or even less.

I'm trying to get rid of gnome-panel for good. Using Screenlets to replace parts of gnome-panel, but I'd still need USP and Notification Area so I don't have to use autohide function for gnome-panel. So I'd like to know if it's possible to create a launcher to fire up USP. 'usp -open-iin-window' (or whatever the command was) isn't good enough. :|

is there any way to get submenus to show up in the application list? the applications I put in a submenu aren't even listed in "all"

thanks,

• pix

Just installed the latest version (or at least, the latest one I'm aware of, 0.41) I've only got a few gripes with it.

1. When I install new programs, they won't show up in it. However, I can remove and re-add the applet, and there it is.
2. When I start up Banshee through it, it claims that dbus is not working in Banshee. But, when I run it through the GNOME menu bar, it works fine.
3. Control panel does not come up when I click it...I get nothing at all.
4. Various Bonobo errors when I try to run GNOME configuration tools, mainly the theme manager.

These problems only happen with the Ubuntu System panel, so I know that everything works fine, it's just a few bugs. I really love it, though. I think it looks awesome, and can't wait to see the finished product. Erm...Also, where's the setup/configuration tool for this? I can't find it anywhere!

pixeltarian said: is there any way to get submenus to show up in the application list? the applications I put in a submenu aren't even listed in "all"

thanks,

This is being looked into at the moment.

• pix

Mr. Psychopath said: Just installed the latest version (or at least, the latest one I'm aware of, 0.41)

I've only got a few gripes with it.

1. When I install new programs, they won't show up in it. However, I can remove and re-add the applet, and there it is.
2. When I start up Banshee through it, it claims that dbus is not working in Banshee. But, when I run it through the GNOME menu bar, it works fine.
3. Control panel does not come up when I click it...I get nothing at all.
4. Various Bonobo errors when I try to run GNOME configuration tools, mainly the theme manager.

These problems only happen with the Ubuntu System panel, so I know that everything works fine, it's just a few bugs. I really love it, though. I think it looks awesome, and can't wait to see the finished product. Erm...Also, where's the setup/configuration tool for this? I can't find it anywhere! The 0.41 is actually quite out of date now, the latest version is available through the SVN repo. Go to this link: http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/w/list Choose "Installation" for instructions for downloading/installing.

If you want preferences/config for usp 0.41 only, do a search on this forum for uspconfig or use gconf-editor /apps/usp/ key.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Malac. The instructions for checking out the recent build from svn work perfectly.

Malac said: This is being looked into at the moment.

The 0.41 is actually quite out of date now, the latest version is available through the SVN repo. Go to this link: http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/w/list Choose "Installation" for instructions for downloading/installing.

If you want preferences/config for usp 0.41 only, do a search on this forum for uspconfig or use gconf-editor /apps/usp/ key.

Hope this helps.

I followed the directions from the webpage here and now want to un-install it and it won't let me.

I cd to the folder and type ./usp_update uninstall complete and it keeps telling me there is now such file for usp_update so how do i go about un-installing this?

Nevermind I figured it out. I had to cd to the exact sub-folder it was in instead of just the SVN folder.

How do I install the extra plug-ins. I really don't understand the directions on how to do it. I tried to put them in the same folder as the standard plug-ins but everytime I try to start one it says the is no module for the plug-in. If i download the deb pakages it just wont install cause it says dependicies not meet: USP: like it isnt even installed. So if someone can tell me how to do this it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

IceReaver75 said: How do I install the extra plug-ins. I really don't understand the directions on how to do it. I tried to put them in the same folder as the standard plug-ins but every time I try to start one it says the is no module for the plug-in. If i download the deb packages it just wont install cause it says dependencies not meet: USP: like it isn't even installed. So if someone can tell me how to do this it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Hi, Go to this page : http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/downloads/list and download the extra plugins from there. The .deb file on the forum is for USP 0.41 and is not compatible with USP 2.00-beta.

Extract the files in the downloaded .tar.gz archive into: /home/[COLOR=SeaGreen]<your-username-here>[/COLOR]/.usp/plugins Then just add them to the plugins list.

I'm not brilliant with command line tar so you may want to do this through the graphic Archive Manager but this should work from where you downloaded the file to.``` tar xvpfz "USP2 Add-On Plugins.tar.gz" -C /home/[COLOR=SeaGreen]<your-username-here>[/COLOR]/.usp/plugins

mkdir -p /home/[COLOR=SeaGreen]<your-username-here>[/COLOR]/.usp/plugins

Hope this helps.

Malac said: Hi,

Go to this page : http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/downloads/list and download the extra plugins from there. The .deb file on the forum is for USP 0.41 and is not compatible with USP 2.00-beta.

Extract the files in the downloaded .tar.gz archive into: /home/[COLOR=SeaGreen]<your-username-here>[/COLOR]/.usp/plugins Then just add them to the plugins list.

I'm not brilliant with command line tar so you may want to do this through the graphic Archive Manager but this should work from where you downloaded the file to.``` tar xvpfz "USP2 Add-On Plugins.tar.gz" -C /home/[COLOR=SeaGreen]<your-username-here>[/COLOR]/.usp/plugins

mkdir -p /home/[COLOR=SeaGreen]<your-username-here>[/COLOR]/.usp/plugins

Hope this helps.

Didn't work. I didn't have the directory so I did the mkdir first then did tar command next and it said no such file or directory.

Alright I finally got it to work. I wouldn't work at all until I un-hid the .usp folder in my home directory for some reason. Thank you very much for all the help. Everything is installed now

Will USP be included in Gutsy

pt123 said: Will USP be included in Gutsy

seeing as gutsy is released in a few days, I doubt it ......

(and the issues with the panel when compiz is running in gutsy doesn't help :D)

Hi all i cant type into the search box of usp with compiz fusion enabled on gutsy any fixes?

sefs said: Hi all i cant type into the search box of usp with compiz fusion enabled on gutsy any fixes?

that's my problem too

with an updated compiz/compiz fusion it doesn't happen (not even playing with focus prevention settings works in gutsy install)

....

gutsy seems to have broke every damn thing. this is a dud on arrival.

work fine for me thanks for the dev, but the button for the control center doesn't work; I have to type /usr/bin/gnome-control-center in the terminal to launch it.

mnml are you saying that...

1) you are on gutsy 2) you have compiz fusion enabled and running 3) you are able to type text into the search box at the bottom of the usp applet?

mnml said: work fine for me thanks for the dev, but the button for the control center doesn't work;

I have to type /usr/bin/gnome-control-center in the terminal to launch it.

sefs said: mnml are you saying that...

1) you are on gutsy 2) you have compiz fusion enabled and running 3) you are able to type text into the search box at the bottom of the usp applet?

1) I am on gutsy 2) I have compiz fusion enabled and running 3) I am able to type text into the search box at the bottom of the usp applet

:)

cf: screenshot

First of all I love your windows/theme, how can I get my windows to look like that? what theme is it???

Second...what are you focus stealing prevention settings for compiz? did you have to tweak it? or did it just work.

mnml said: 1) I am on gutsy

2) I have compiz fusion enabled and running 3) I am able to type text into the search box at the bottom of the usp applet

:)

cf: screenshot

Hello, I'm now using this menu too and have some remarks:

• I too can't use the search field
• How can I use 'tabs'? I tried a bit but couldn't get it to function properly. I would want 2 tabs taking in 1 pane, first tab 'applications' second tab 'recent'.
• The userinfo thing doesn't show correct information (no username, bad 'logged in since'-time etc...
• I would like to be able to widen the categories in 'applications'. Right now some names are cut off (sound&video for example). Widening the whole applet doesn't work
• Is there an applet that somehoew replaces the 'places' menu?
• Where can I see which the available applets are?
• Is it possible ot have a searchbox that uses tracker to search? A bit like vista - would be very easy!

Really an awesome concept! It has a lot of potential.

sneax said: Hello, I'm now using this menu too and have some remarks:

• I too can't use the search field
• How can I use 'tabs'? I tried a bit but couldn't get it to function properly. I would want 2 tabs taking in 1 pane, first tab 'applications' second tab 'recent'.
• The userinfo thing doesn't show correct information (no username, bad 'logged in since'-time etc...
• I would like to be able to widen the categories in 'applications'. Right now some names are cut off (sound&video for example). Widening the whole applet doesn't work
• Is there an applet that somehoew replaces the 'places' menu?
• Where can I see which the available applets are?
• Is it possible ot have a searchbox that uses tracker to search? A bit like vista - would be very easy!

Really an awesome concept! It has a lot of potential.

hmm, which version you using ??

also, this might be useful for you http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/w/list

:D

maybe it would be helpful for those with the search box working to state what their compiz focus stealing preventions are set too in gutsy.

For whatever reason...I can't get usp to load for other users. I think this is probably a permissions issue but I can't figure it out because everyone should be able to access it.

delfick said: hmm, which version you using ??

also, this might be useful for you http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/w/list

:D

Thanks for the link!

I'm using the SVN.

sneax said: Thanks for the link!

no probs :D

I'm using the SVN.

still have problems ?? (or were you using svn before as well ?) :D

I still can't use the serach field but that's no bother!

Also, I can't seem to find how to make a newpane with in that pane 2 tabs and then another newpane which is always showing. I think you need something like an 'newpane' and 'endpane' same as for 'newtab' and 'endtab' so you can steer nesting behaviour.

Ok, now for a challenge! I'm on Debian (sid) so it's not quite your standard system. Anyways, it should still work (right?). When I add it to the panel I get no reaction. Not until I move the entire panel to the side of the screen does it show up, and it stays there when I move it back. However, nothing happens when I click it.

The command 'usp run-in-window' yields an error, though: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1769, in ? menu_factory(app, None) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1749, in menu_factory MenuWin(applet, iid) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 1565, in __init__ self.mainwin = MainWindow(self) File "/usr/bin/usp", line 100, in __init__ self.language,self.encoding=locale.getdefaultlocale() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 346, in getdefaultlocale return _parse_localename(localename) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 278, in _parse_localename raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename ValueError: unknown locale: en_DK

great panel - love it

but there are 2 things that bother me (think they are connected): 1st: When I click on the "System" Icon and then click on the desktop or any other window, the menu does not disappear... (but this is not the main problem)

the main problem is 2nd: When I launch an application through this panel, th panel remains "marked" ... I have to click on the panel to "unmark" it.. when i click a second time the menu appears again....

hope you understand my problem^^

maybe there are solutions, but i did not found anything for this problem...

so big thanks for your suggestions g3eB4Y

EDIT: my system: Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy)

hello, I'm newbie in linux especially in ubuntu I like this panel, but still have a problem to using search box. is this possible to change default search engine with google desktop for example? I'm using USP SVN and compiz-fusion are enabled on ubuntu feisty. can anyone tell me how to fix it? btw I've just fixed control center button to working correctly, just replace "gcenter" with "gnome-control-center" in the preferences>system management

geber said: I like this panel, but still have a problem to using search box.

as in you can't type into it?

what version of compiz-fusion you using?

Ok apparently I am slow. I installed USP2 and do not have the user plugin.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a guide on how to set this all up.

I just found this yesterday, and it is a huge improvement!

http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/downloads/list

:D

just put http://ubuntu-system-panel.googlecode.com/files/USP2%20Add-On%20Plugins.tar.gz into ~/.usp/plugins

and restart gnome-panel (sudo killall gnome-panel)

.... :D

delfick said: as in you can't type into it?

what version of compiz-fusion you using?

yes, i can't type anything in the search box I'm using compiz-fusion version 0.52 git20071007

thanks

Ok, last question, and then I think I got it.

I dragged an icon into both the shorcuts and the favourites menus, but neither show either words or the icons.

I know they are there because they are "raised"

any ideas on why the picture/words is not there?

geber said: yes, i can't type anything in the search box

I'm using compiz-fusion version 0.52 git20071007

thanks

I know that there is a bug with compiz and input boxes. It happens in frostwire to me all the time.

Have you tried to copy and past into the box?

oneadvent said: Ok, last question, and then I think I got it.

I dragged an icon into both the shorcuts and the favourites menus, but neither show either words or the icons.

I know they are there because they are "raised"

any ideas on why the picture/words is not there?

hmm, personally I'm not sure on that... someone else might though :D

geber said: yes, i can't type anything in the search box

I'm using compiz-fusion version 0.52 git20071007

thanks

hmm, works here (mind you I use 0.6.0 git...) try looking in the ccsm -> General Options -> Focus & Raise Behaviour -> Focus Prevention Windows

if it already has nothing, try !type=DOCK

and if that doesn't work, try starting a thread in the general usage section of http://forum.compiz-fusion.org

....

delfick said: hmm, personally I'm not sure on that...

someone else might though :D

Actually it goes further too. It seems that even the wordless/iconless shortcuts do not work. Here is the catch, they are for a wine application.

Also, I added it to my normal gnome menu, and it showed up in the right place under "games" on USP, but that wont work either. It works on the main menu still though.

Maybe there is special instructions on wine applications?

Josh

EDIT: Actually HTOP doesn't work either from the menu. Its not just wine. I am using 7.10, and a pretty much fresh install. What am I doing wrong? Konsole works, and so does java management....

hmm, wierd

it works for me..

sure you're using uspsvn ? :D

also, as for wine applications, I suggest using winefix because otherwise you have to set the folder in the shortcut... (wine needs to be in the folder where you're executing the program from, winefix doesn't)....

:D

Well that didn't help, although that is a crazy cool program. I did install it and I think I will use it....

this is really frustrating, it cant only be happening to me.

Is there a forum just for the USP?

oneadvent said: Well that didn't help, although that is a crazy cool program. I did install it and I think I will use it....

this is really frustrating, it cant only be happening to me.

damn

unfortunately Malac and Chanders, the people who pretty much made the usp (not too sure on who else really contributed to it, sorry to those people if they exist :p)

anyway, those two both moved house (seperately :D) and haven't been active over here for a while, so we can't really ask them..... (unless they see this :D)

Is there a forum just for the USP?

this is the forum just for usp :D (well this section of the forum anyways)

used to be a single thread in compiz.net right at the beginning but then it moved here....

delfick said: damn

unfortunately Malac and Chanders, the people who pretty much made the usp (not too sure on who else really contributed to it, sorry to those people if they exist :p)

So, will there be no more updates?

I think this is a great menu, but I am still having a hard time replacing the normal menu, (Which is kinda sad in a way), but mostly because of the few programs that wont start.

I have both running until I get used to the new one sufficiently.

I would say that it could use an upgrade to fully utilize more compiz than it does.

If it isn't a frozen project, who is updating it now? I think it is a great thing for gnome/linux/ubuntu

Josh

oneadvent said: If it isn't a frozen project, who is updating it now?

I believe it is a frozen project for the time being until chanders and Malac have the time to work on it again, if that ever happens.......

though there is this here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=602835 though not sure what's happening there either...

It's been quiet for a really really long time now, but I still have hope :D

delfick said: I believe it is a frozen project for the time being until chanders and Malac have the time to work on it again, if that ever happens.......

though there is this here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=602835 though not sure what's happening there either...

It's been quiet for a really really long time now, but I still have hope :D

Don't worry.. I have still plans to work on it - however I had a wicked idea for another application which I am currently working on and like to present it shortly. After that I will continue working on USP2 when time allows.

Quikee said: Don't worry.. I have still plans to work on it - however I had a wicked idea for another application which I am currently working on and like to present it shortly. After that I will continue working on USP2 when time allows.

cool :D

WOW~! I like that soo much thank you it works great for me! I was kinda starting to miss my searchable start menu.... haha looks amazing keep up the good work!:KS

this is coming from a total NOOB!!!

worked great thanks!

link to theme and control centre are broken though but everything else is flawless and EASY.

:)

Great App, better than the gnome-main-menu, more customizable. Love it!

#Reistlehr- said: Great App, better than the gnome-main-menu, more customizable. Love it!

How can i get my hands on the last version of it.

geekcliff said: How can i get my hands on the last version of it.

http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/w/list

:D

i was using .41-1 and i hated the toggle button for the app. Just donwloaded the svn version, looks great, works better. So many fixes. Great job.

edit: i lied. I made sure that pin menu was off, which it is, but i still have to keep toggling the menu. Is there anyway to get it to automatically close on off focus?

Also, do the plugins randomize? A bunch of times so far the plugins keep changing everytime i open the menu.

awesome!

took me two goes to get it installed, but i love it. I can't wait for Version 3 to come out...

delfick said: http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/w/list

:D

Thank you delfick ive just got it, and its up and running, looks great.:guitar:

geekcliff said: Thank you delfick ive just got it, and its up and running, looks great.:guitar:

no probs :)

is it normal behavior for the menu to be toggle?

what do you mean?

When you open the menu, the menu opens, obviously, but in order to close it, you have to hit the button again. Hence toggle.

Is it possible to disable the toggle to achieve the effect of the menu closing when you take the focus off the menu by say, clicking on anther app, or clicking on the desktop?

Pin Menu is not checked in gconf.

hmmm, that behaviour seems to happen for me....

when you open the menu, there's a little button on the top left, that isn't selected is it?

(if it isn't selected, then I'm not sure, sorry )

Yeah happens whether it is selected or not. Default behavior was the side panel was hidden.

I've never gotten into python before, but im extremely fluent in php, so im going to attempt to mod it. I love the menu, it's just, a pet peeve of mine when it doesn't close.

:) Thanks for the help.