Deskbar applet not working

Imaginenz · #1 5th May 2006, 07:18 AM

I installed the Deskbar applet from Fedora Extras onto the gnome panel. It seems to work at a basic level when I type things in, but I thought it was supposed to query Beagle in real-time and present Beagle results in the deskbar pop-up selection menu, rather than just offering to load up a Beagle search window with my query. Also to query google, yahoo etc in real-time and also present the results. These real-time search things don't happen.

Beagle is running as I go into a search window and start the service, then type in deskbar, but no luck on deskbar connecting to Beagle or google etc.

Deskbar version is 2.14.0

Whats the story about the real-time results?? Any info appreciated.

GL1800 · #2 5th May 2006, 12:14 PM

I am using both deskbar and beagle. I do not think it is misbehaving. As you type into deskbar. a number of results and choices should appear in the OSD window. What these are depends on what you have selected in the preferences. In no case is beagle-search launched, until you click on the "search for XXX using beagle" entry. I get "send email to" if it's a name in my addressbook, an offer of 4,5 web results, look up in dictionary, and search for files like XXX. This varies depending on what the search was for, of course.
HTH, Ray

Imaginenz · #3 8th May 2006, 05:29 AM

I also am presented with what you mention, eg. yahoo is queried and results are presented on the deskbar list (how do I make it query Google???). I also get "search for XXX using beagle". But I thought that beagle should actually be queried by deskbar and beagle results returned to the deskbar list. After having a look around, I think this bit of deskbar is called beagle-live.

Is it something that has been fixed recently?? I notice deskbar is up to version 2.14.1.1 while the fedora extras package is only on 2.14.0.

GL1800 · #4 8th May 2006, 11:01 AM

I wondered about google, too. Something somewhere says "requires XXX" which I don't seem to have. I don't know about beagle-live. Deskbar is in Python, I think, so we should be able to just get that newer one and run it.

Imaginenz · #5 22nd May 2006, 01:49 AM

SOLVED... for fedora core 5.

I did not have libbeagle-python installed which is required for beagle-live. To install, type as root:

yum install libbeagle-python

Possibly restart computer. Make sure beagle is running by typing "beagled" as a regular (not root) user. It may already be running (you can check for this by typing "beagle-status").

Restart deskbar (version 2.14.0 is fine). In the deskbar preferences, a new option Beagle-Live is available. Tick it to enable beagle-live. Deskbar will now return results from beagle in its drop-down list in real-time.

To start a stand-alone version of deskbar, type:
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet --window
This will also provide debugging information about various things starting up (or failing) in the terminal window. Multiple running copies of deskbar may conflict with each other.

GL1800 · #6 22nd May 2006, 11:24 AM

YEAY! That works just fine. Thank you!

Imaginenz · #7 23rd May 2006, 06:45 AM

Installing Google realtime results for deskbar 2.14 in fedora core 5....

Yahoo is provided as an option for returning real-time results (within a few seconds) to deskbar under the deskbar preferences. To get Google, you need to install SOAPpy package (as root):

yum install SOAPpy

Then go to api.google.com and create an account. This will email you an API license key (text string of letters/nums) which you need to copy and paste into a file called:

/home/user/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/Google.key

Also download the API developers package from Google and put the file GoogleSearch.wsdl into the same directory, ie.:

/home/user/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/GoogleSearch.wsdl

Maybe restart computer. Start beagle (typing 'beagled'). Restart deskbar and under deskbar preferences, a new option 'Google search' is available. Select it and now deskbar will query Google for each entry you type in deskbar and return results within a few seconds to the deskbar drop-down list under 'web'. Speed of return of results will depend on how fast your internet connection is.

Using this Google API and account, you are limited to 1000 queries per day, hence the need for an account. There appears to be no current method of getting unlimited search results out of Google.

newfc2user · #8 24th May 2006, 06:37 PM

Has anybody been able to get deskbar applet working through a proxy?
I have a laptop that I use at both work and home. I get hits from google and yahoo when I am *not* going through a proxy.
However, at work I have to go through a Microsoft web proxy and I notice that I do not get any hits from Google or Yahoo for my search terms.
I suspect that it is a proxy problem because my weather applet isn't working either through the proxy. Any advice?

carney1979 · #9 4th July 2006, 05:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imaginenz

Installing Google realtime results for deskbar 2.14 in fedora core 5....

Yahoo is provided as an option for returning real-time results (within a few seconds) to deskbar under the deskbar preferences. To get Google, you need to install SOAPpy package (as root):

yum install SOAPpy

Then go to api.google.com and create an account. This will email you an API license key (text string of letters/nums) which you need to copy and paste into a file called:

/home/user/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/Google.key

Also download the API developers package from Google and put the file GoogleSearch.wsdl into the same directory, ie.:

/home/user/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/GoogleSearch.wsdl

Maybe restart computer. Start beagle (typing 'beagled'). Restart deskbar and under deskbar preferences, a new option 'Google search' is available. Select it and now deskbar will query Google for each entry you type in deskbar and return results within a few seconds to the deskbar drop-down list under 'web'. Speed of return of results will depend on how fast your internet connection is.

Using this Google API and account, you are limited to 1000 queries per day, hence the need for an account. There appears to be no current method of getting unlimited search results out of Google.

Followed these instructions exactly.

Didn't work for me....

Dang!

David

Seve · #10 4th July 2006, 06:52 AM

Hello:
Well I am not sure why it didn't work? Are you sure you have all the required pakcages installed?
Try again, it really does work well.

Seve

carney1979 · #11 4th July 2006, 07:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seve

Hello:
Well I am not sure why it didn't work? Are you sure you have all the required pakcages installed?
Try again, it really does work well.

Seve

I can choose to search Google in my prefs (had to remobe the deskbar applet from my panel, then reinstall it to get that much), but when I type a word into the applet, there is no choice to enable me to search using Google.

The deskbar applet was installed using Yum and I also installed SOAPpy as well as setting up an account and "installing" the key that Google emailed my. I also installed the GoogleSearch.wsdl file, all as you outlined above.

I'm close but not quite there.

What other dependencies?

David

Seve · #12 4th July 2006, 08:18 AM

Hello:
Yes, perhaps I spoke too soon as now I seem to be having the same problems as you???? It worked perfectly at first ..mmm dunno what changed?
Seve

tajidinabd · #13 4th July 2006, 09:50 AM

yes i am having the same issue i been trying debug by issuing the command /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet --window when i try to do a google search alot of error messages get thrown up. So this service from google is very beta so thats one reason. Where can we go to file a bug report on this