Re: Announcing SysBars panel applet

In <20080529093033.20357992@absurd>
Janek Kozicki <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tony Houghton said:     (by the date of Mon, 26 May 2008 23:40:46
> +0100)
> 
> > I've written a new panel applet called SysBars. It's for showing
> > CPU,
> 
> I wanted to try it. I ran it, and wanted to add a bar for monitoring
> CPU#0, and I got error message:
>   
>   "AttributeError: 'gtk.gdk.Color' object has no attribute 'to_string'

Your libgtk+-2.0, or at least the python bindings, are to old I think. I
can work around that by providing my own to_string() method.

> Now I cannot close this error window. Clicking OK does nothing.
> Buttons Help and Details don't work either. Buttons in parent windows
> do not work also. I have to kill the app. See attached screenshot.

I kept having that problem too. I looked at ROX-Lib2's code for the
exception dialog and thought it was written in a strange way. I
rearranged the code so it was more like what I'm used to and that fixed
the problem for me. That change should be in svn.

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