Consider supporting application indicators

[Jorge Castro]

Please consider supporting Ubuntu's application indicators!
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators

[Andrew (and471)]

It already has support, however the problem is to do with how it is run.

If /dev/input/event0 has read access it runs and works fine, however if not, it has to be run with sudo.

When it is run with sudo, for some reason, appindicator hooks it into gtk.StatusIcon instead

This is a bug with appindicator and screenkey (only the necessary parts need be run was root)

[Ted Gould (ted)]

My guess would be that it's not finding the session bus. It seems to me that you really don't want all of screenkeys to run as root anyway. Would it make sense to have a part of it be a system dbus service, and then keep the UI part all in the user session? It seems like a smaller amount of code for a potential exploit.

[Pablo SEMINARIO (pabluk)]

Thanks Jorge and Andrew,
Could you please give me more information about your plataform? as GNU/Linux distro or python-appindicator version to try to reproduce the bug.

[Pablo SEMINARIO (pabluk)]

Thanks Ted, use a system dbus service seems an interesting idea. Maybe I'll try to test it.

[Pablo SEMINARIO (pabluk)]

I have ported the code needed to run as root to python-xlib and work fine without gksu.