I want to write a simple applet to put in a tray. Let’s say it will be for gnome taskbar or tint2. My applet should show system temperature or any other simple information by probing at a fixed amount of time /proc or maybe providing this info by clicking on the applet itself, I still have not decided.
My knowledge is limited, since I don’t know where to start. What I need is some little info, on the difficulty of the matter, provided I’m fairly ok with bash, but that’s it.
Where do I start and what should I read first? There should be gui, then is it gtk, qt or something else? Maybe somebody got a good link or just your opinion will be a good start for me.
Assuming you mean GNOME 2, you could start reading the document Gnome applets with Python. You will get the idea behind applets and how to do it with Python. For tin2 the API might be totally different.