Flickr photo search plugin for GNOME Deskbar applet

Warning!: I haven’t checked the plugin against the latest Deskbar versions, be careful if you want to install the plugin because it could blow up your Deskbar.

This is a work in progress plugin which I’m developing to study the internals of the wonderful GNOME Deskbar applet.
Simply enter one or more tag in the deskbar and you’ll get a list of Flickr entries in Deskbar results pane, along with thumbnails.
It probably breaks the UI guidelines for Deskbar, but at the moment works well for me 😛 .

To install the plugin simply copy it in the Deskbar handlers directory:

cd $HOME/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/handlers
wget http://deskbarphoto.googlecode.com/files/deskbar-flickr.py


To activate the plugin right click on the Deskbar icon in the panel, click on Preferences… and check “Flickr photo search”.

Click here to download the plugin.

Reference

To learn more about Deskbar and PyGTK, checkout these helpful links:

• Deskbar Applet: the official site.
• Extending the DeskbarApplet: good samples and lots of links to existing plugins.
• Deskbar applet plugin tutorial: an extremely detailed tutorial about writing Deskbar plugins.
• FAQ: image handling using PyGTK: quick samples to get your feet wet with PyGTK.
• PyGTK reference and tutorials.

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