dvbszap-applet

The dvbszap-applet (actually dvbszap button applet) is a direct derivat of the dvbszap-combo-applet. Actually, it is just wrapping its widgetry - the difference is that it is not consuming a big part of your panel. Instead it just displays a button in the panel that is able to kick the rest of the functionality.

Therefore, to understand its configuration you should just look at the dvbszap-combo-applet documentation.

The only specialty is in the button extras - it shall (later) be able to interpret mouse scroll wheel events to switch the channel up and down (just like the GtkComboBoxEntry widget in the earlier variant). Only when pressing the button (left, right, middle button) some extra functionality is provided: opening a menu, start/stop recording and such things.

At the moment however (0.3.10) it is not working as expected. So perhaps I have to rewrite some of the widgetry code: the main combo box widget was not modelled as a GtkWidget subtype but it seems very necessary. Therefore, if you click the panel button then combobox window will open. That is nice but closing that extra window will also clean away the panel button. Ouch.

Speaking about further intentions, there is a still a lot to do and any help is appreciated. My biggest problem is that I do have two dvb cards and I am unsure how to tell different applets apart for the cards. The internal code layout is prepared to handle multiple cards but it is not actually working now. Hmmm.