Python, GTK and popup

[Mikael Eriksson]

Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> stateq2 wrote:
> 
>> what kind of application is it? 
> 
> 
>  It popup to ,,scratch my itch''. We have a DC hub in our network at 
> work. Lots of illegal stuff, from mp3 to movies. Since I'm not in warez, 
> I could care less for that. But my girlfriend study a ,,Knowledge about 
> culture and movie'' so she needs a peak at as much movies, as she can. 
> Leaving moral problems behind, I had to setup VNC server, and now she 
> can use our DC with remote desktop. This has some downsizes. My disk is 
> not made from rubber (witch is a good thing, because, otherwise it 
> woulnd't work at all;-)) and when I'm gone it could be overrun by .avi 
> files (and render my database and code useless). I decited to write a 
> Python program (just to get into it, because Bash could do fine here;-) 
> that could do following:
> 
>  * Set up partition alert limit (in % or megabytes)
>  * Set a notify action (popup and/or e-mail)
>  * Use killall <appname> to kill applications that may cause ,,disk is
>    full'' event.
> 
>  All I need is to learn how to handle listviews, cyclegadgets and text 
> gadgets in GTK. ;-) And I was wondering if there's a ,,popup'' class in 
> GTK, or I should take care of it myself.
> 
> 

Sounds like you want something like http://gnotify.sourceforge.net/
But I don't know if it has python bindings