Is there a way of writing short text messages in the panel[s]?

[Mike Massonnet]

Le Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:02:32 +0000,
Chris G <cl at isbd.net> a écrit :

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:32:25AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On lun, 2009-03-16 at 18:54 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > > Is there any way to display short text messages in the xfce panel?
> > 
> > Besides genmon you could look at messenger plugin which is to be
> > used with dbus messages.
> > 
> What I have actually done is to take a look at the xfce-genmon-plugin
> source code and modified it to be able to specify colours.  It turned
> out to be very simple as the text is output using
> gtk_label_set_text(), changing this to gtk_label_set_markup() allows
> simple markup for text colours etc.  I haven't fully checked it out
> yet, I think it may need some increase in buffer size to handle the
> possible extra length of the text.  I currently have a message in my
> panel with large blue text though. :-)
> 
> Would this change be of interest to other xfce users?  If so how do I
> set about submitting it?
> 

Open an enhancement bug against the plugin and attach a patch.

http://bugs.xfce.org

Mike