[edit] Info

This screenlet can browse services advertised by Avahi or Zeroconf, and can launch configurable applications to use those services. It recycles a lot of code from Sebastien Estienne's service-discovery-applet for the GNOME Panel, and uses icons from the Black & White GNOME icon theme (icons can be replaced with your own if you wish).

It has a small bug in that the very first time it's started, it won't find any services. You can work around this by starting it, placing it where you like, setting it to the widget layer, etc. and then quitting it. The next time you start it, it will discover services.

Note that while it can ask for required information for most services, it cannot for VNC. This is because the VNC viewer does not allow you to specify a password on the command line. You can configure the VNC viewer to pop up a password dialog with the option "-xrm '*passwordDialog: true'". This is configured by default.

Version 0.2 - fixed a small bug stopping Screenlets manager from starting if Avahi is not installed

[edit] Installation

Install it in the usual way, by extracting the archive to your ~/.screenlets directory.

[edit] Requirements

The Avahi daemon and its Python bindings must be installed.

[edit] Usage

After launching it for the first time, quit and launch it again, then it will find services. You can configure applications to launch on the "Properties/Options/Apps" panel.

[edit] Discussion