Putting an arbitrary gtk.Widget into an appindicator.Indicator

Putting any gtk.Widget inside a gtk.Menu works, somewhat, by putting an empty gtk.MenuItem in first. It doesn't seem to be reliable - but it basically works. With an appindicator.Indicator, it doesn't work. The entry just stays empty. Even if you set the child[border_size] to 32, for example.

The only widget that works is a gtk.Label (plus the MenuItem, ImageMenuItem and so on of course).

Now the Me Menu has got a gtk.Entry in it, so it must surely be possible to do this Properly. How do I do it?

Here's some example code to explain what I'm on about:

    self.item = gtk.MenuItem()
    self.item.add(gtk.Label("hello world!"))
    self.menu.append(self.item)

The above code works, this however doesn't:

    self.item = gtk.MenuItem()
    self.item.add(gtk.Entry())
    self.menu.append(self.item)

Where self.menu is an appindicator.Indicator, if it were a gtk.Menu, the Entry would be at least displayed.

Here's some working code:

import gtk
import appindicator

class AppIndicator (object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.ind = appindicator.Indicator("hello world client",
            "distributor-logo", appindicator.CATEGORY_APPLICATION_STATUS)
        self.ind.set_status (appindicator.STATUS_ACTIVE)
        self.menu = gtk.Menu()
        item = gtk.MenuItem()

        item.add(gtk.Label("hello world"))
        # item.add(gtk.Entry())

        self.menu.append(item)
        self.menu.show_all()
        self.ind.set_menu(self.menu)


indicator = AppIndicator()
gtk.main()