Allow a user to set any timeout for the buttons

[Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen]

The timeout is still too fast for my clumsy fingers on a touchpad. I think I need 2-3 seconds. I'd like to set the timeout globally, and I'd like to be able to have buttons displayed all the time if I so choose.
Also I'd like to see the buttons have a click effect, so I can see if my click is picked up, or if there's something wrong.

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

Instead of adding an option for the fade-time, I'd like to just give the timeout a saner settings by default. We'll still add a "always show buttons option" to disable the fading altogether.

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

I can confirm this. When I try to click the buttons they fade out before I can click them.

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

I'm pretty happy with way the timeout works as of revision 512.

@Compizuser01, Ketil:
Please test and let me know what you think.

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

At present I can't even move the screenlets and no buttons appear (revision 518). But when they did appear in the last version I still could not click on the buttons. Nothing happened.

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

@Compizuser:
Can you paste the output of running the following command and then adding screenlets:
melange --replace -oSTDOUT -l5

Note: The above command will also close all currently running screenlets.

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

I use rev. 526 now. Still no buttons on the screenlets. Still much trouble to get them to auto start: they keep on disappearing in the autostart tab of the Manager if i start one manually.

Commandline output:
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$ melange --replace -oSTDOUT -l5
2008-10-02 12:38:21,067 - DEBUG - Melange: Logging initialized
2008-10-02 12:38:21,068 - INFO - Checking for another running instance...
2008-10-02 12:38:21,075 - INFO - No other instances found.
2008-10-02 12:38:21,142 - DEBUG - Melange: Done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/screenlets/melange.py", line 690, in realize
    self.create_menu()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/screenlets/melange.py", line 265, in create_menu
    self.builder = gtk.Builder()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Builder'
2008-10-02 12:40:08,787 - DEBUG - Melange: Recieved message shape-changed: Shutdown1: 0
2008-10-02 12:40:08,804 - DEBUG - Updating input shape
2008-10-02 12:40:09,015 - DEBUG - expose event
2008-10-02 12:40:09,039 - DEBUG - Melange: Recieved message shape-changed: Shutdown1: 0
2008-10-02 12:40:09,053 - DEBUG - Updating input shape
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Success w/ developing. :)

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

Compizuser, can you still confirm this?