gtkIndicator missing gi import?

[thomas-phillips-nz]

I noticed we don't have any import in the requirements.txt file for the gtkIndicator gi package (pgi?). I guess we don't want to force this package onto users who might just be using the command-line tool.

Should we add instructions on installing this package and its dependencies before being able to run tenma-applet or ./gtkIndicator.py? I have had trouble trying to get pgi installed on my Windows machine, and I am not actually sure which OSes tenma-applet supports.

[kxtells]

I'd say it's simply missing documentation stating which environments are supported.

gtkIndicator was an afterthought and a nice to have, it uses GTK alongside its python bindings via PyGObject to have a systray indicator of your power unit.

This should mostly work on Linux systems with Desktop environments like GNOME and XFCE. I imagine in other environments (KDE) will crash as soon as it starts, either because it does not find the gi import, or after installing pyGObject it might still miss system dependencies.

[kxtells]

We could even treat it as an extras too.

Where the default application installs the command line alongside the lib, but we can set an specific install of the gtk applet 🤔