Bugs
There are few of them at the moment. First, an icon for banshee media player won't show up with this tray, despite it reacts on clicks and takes a space in a row. If you rely on this player you'd better hold off with this patch.
Next, if you move the tray from a bigger panel to a smaller one, it won't change it's layout. So don't move it for some time till I get it fixed
To apply this patch
you need a source package for gnome-panel 2.26.2. You can take it from here http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-panel/2.26/
To build the panel you'll need some prerequisites and developer packages of this libraries:
ORBit-2.0
gdk-pixbuf-2.0
pango
gtk+-2.0
glib-2.0
gio-2.0
gio-unix-2.0
libgnome-2.0
libgnomeui-2.0
libbonoboui-2.0
gnome-desktop-2.0
libglade-2.0
gconf-2.0
libgnome-menu
dbus-glib-1
Note: some of them depend on each other, so it might be unnecessary to install every package.
Ubuntu users
can install it with apt-get source like this (thanks to hairypalms19):
sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-panel
apt-get source gnome-panel
cd gnome-panel-2.26.0
copy the downloaded patch file into the current folder making sure to remove the numbers appended to the front or adjust the next command to include the numbers.
zcat na-tray-multirow-2.26.2.patch.gz | patch -p1
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
or
use a built deb-package on your own risk (no warranty!):
http://rapidshare.com/files/244099751/gnome-panel.tar.gz.html
Extract, configure, copy the patch to the extracted folder, apply it and make/install:
tar xvzf gnome-panel-2.26.2.tar.gz
cd gnome-panel-2.26.2
zcat na-tray-multirow-2.26.2.patch.gz | patch -p1
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
If everything looks fine, remove the tray from the panel and re-add it again. It should fit to other minor versions of the same release, but I'm not sure.
Ratings & Comments
31 Comments
as in Ubuntu Natty, see here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10842807#post10842807
how can i uninstall this to return to the regular one? i had many problems with it , and i'm not actually using the multirow at the moment either
uninstallation is pretty easy: just reinstall a package gnome-panel from your repository, it should replace the modified files. then remove the tray and re-add it.
then the bug i experience has nothing to do with your patch, thanks :) by the way are there any plans to get multirow for 2.28 or 29?
I'm afraid it's not needed, since ubuntu developers already develop new application icons or something.
Hello.. Is possible to set size of icons? For example all icons in systray has heigth 24px (in one row). If yes, how? PS: Sorry for my english.. Thanks
I'm afraid this patch is not working anymore. I have no time to port it to a new version of gnome-panel, and therefore it's not applicable now. More, it is planed to drop gnome tray completely in the favour of a new application menus.
Are there any plans for making .deb for Karmic Ubuntu ?
1) Is there a new version or a package built for the new release of gnome ? Can you add a preference menu with the size of the icons, the number of rows, etc... Or does this feature should need a rewrite of the systray library ? Sorry for my english and my lack of knowledge in programming.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=120854
Im sort of a newbie here, but when i click download, i get webpage with a script with a bunch of codes...what am I supposed to do with that? I was also going to use the rapidshare link, but its down because it has been download 10 times already.
It is a patch you should save with a "Save as..." option. Please, read instructions carefully how to apply this patch.
That banshee bug is not problem of your patch, it is problem in banshee. See bug report with (not accepted yet) solution: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/process_bug.cgi
Sorry, bad link: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590771
It seems that some versions of the gtk have GtkTable broken. I see no problems on 2.14 I do on 2.16. It's so weird.
it also has the same problem with GTK from git and the 2.17.2 release packaged in ubuntu karmic alpha.
After apply this patch i see that: http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1294/screenshotsdi.png I try install from deb package and patch svn.
I extracted the 2.26.2 file, copy the patch tar file in the gnome-panel-2.26 folder...then configure...when I try to `make` gives this error make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. What did I do wrong?? Maybe a step by step for a noob :(
you forgot ./configure --prefix=/usr
oh sorry, didn't notice you said configure. Your configuration ended with an error, you need to look what libraries are missing and install them with apt or yum.
Well I think this has something to do with that...I just notice this error!! I can`t find some of these requirements in synaptic... "checking for PANEL... configure: error: Package requirements (ORBit-2.0 >= 2.4.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.7.1 pango >= 1.15.4 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.15.1 glib-2.0 >= 2.18.0 gio-2.0 >= 2.18.0 gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.18.0 libgnome-2.0 >= 2.13.0 libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.5.4 libbonoboui-2.0 >= 2.1.1 gnome-desktop-2.0 >= 2.11.1 libglade-2.0 >= 2.5.0 gconf-2.0 >= 2.6.1 libgnome-menu >= 2.11.1 dbus-glib-1 >= 0.60) were not met: No package 'ORBit-2.0' found No package 'gdk-pixbuf-2.0' found No package 'pango' found No package 'gtk+-2.0' found No package 'glib-2.0' found No package 'gio-2.0' found No package 'gio-unix-2.0' found No package 'libgnome-2.0' found No package 'libgnomeui-2.0' found No package 'libbonoboui-2.0' found No package 'gnome-desktop-2.0' found No package 'libglade-2.0' found No package 'gconf-2.0' found No package 'libgnome-menu' found No package 'dbus-glib-1' found"
yeah, that's what I was talking about. Do an apt-get install libpanel-applet2-dev, this should help
just to give people a heads up ill upload the debs for ubuntu 9.04 to rapidshare, no warranty, only 32 bit, use at your own risk etc http://rapidshare.com/files/244099751/gnome-panel.tar.gz.html built like this sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-panel apt-get source gnome-panel cd gnome-panel-2.26.0 copy the downloaded patch file into the current folder making sure to remove the numbers appended to the front or adjust the next command to include the numbers. zcat na-tray-multirow-2.26.2.patch.gz | patch -p1 then dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b in the current will sort it out for you in ubuntu/debian/knoppix etc
Thanks, I'll update the post with your instructions!
seriously, love this, i was trying to get something similar myself, (tho not multirow) when i saw http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs30/f/2008/046/d/a/Tray_example_by_hbons.png this does just that. improves the look of the tray so much, even for single row :)