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Bug 666278 - custom context menu in the launcher
custom context menu in the launcher
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Accessibility
3.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-12-15 14:37 UTC by Bilal Shahid
Modified: 2012-01-30 14:52 UTC
See Also:
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Description Bilal Shahid 2011-12-15 14:37:42 UTC 
Originally reported at:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/870691

It would be cool if empathy had a custom context menu in the launcher like gwibber does. New pending conversations or the account preferences could be accesses by it.
using oneiric.
with 3.3.1
Comment 1 André Klapper 2011-12-17 00:33:39 UTC 
So what does Gwibber do?
Account settings are accessible via the user menu in GNOME3 and conversations are shown in the notification area.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2012-01-29 13:56:52 UTC 
NEEDINFO as per last comment.
Comment 3 Kai Mast 2012-01-29 23:55:43 UTC 
The bug report was related to integration into Unity, I am not sure if it should be filed upstream.

Basically, Empathy doens't implent a quicklist, like Gwibber. Gwibber has e.g. the account settings and a refresh function in its quicklist.

For empathy I would propose the following items
* Change Status (maybe online online<->offline)
* Pending conversations/Unread Messages
* Account Settings
* Quit
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-01-30 14:00:19 UTC 
What's the API to set such menu?
Comment 5 Kai Mast 2012-01-30 14:23:01 UTC 
The API is exposed by libunity. 

See here (especially UnityLauncherEntry) http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-11.10/c/Unity-4.0.html

There are also other stuff you could implent. Like a progress bar for file transfers..
Comment 6 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-01-30 14:52:22 UTC 
Unity isn't part of GNOME. We'll implement such feature once it's provided by standard library like Gtk+.