Moma Antero's questions

I just discovered that Oracle's (Sun's) Java6 has vanished from the Canonical's partner repository.

Before Java was taken from all repositories I had purchased Minecraft for play in Ubuntu. After recent re-install I can not find a way to play this game in the only OS installed now on my systems.

Open source Java equivalents will not run this piece of software nor am I able to use Yahoo Games with my friends. Somewhere I should have been given a choice as to what security risks I'm willing to deal with in order continue to use or not use paid commercial software.

Is there any solution besides directly downloading the java from sun and trying to re-install manually? This method coupled with my short Ubuntu term skills is not an option.

I want to add my audio-recorder to Ubuntu's sound menu.

Sound menu seems to use MPRIS commands over DBus to control the media players. So I could implement a minimal MPRIS for audio-recorder as well. Can I also change the icons that is shown on the sound menu? I mean, can I add my own buttons under the media-player? Audio-recorder needs to display three icons/buttons for START, PAUSE and STOP recording.

References:

• Sound menu.

• MPRIS spec.

• Audio recorder.

• Annoucement on Ubuntuforums.org.

I just got known that GTK+ 3.0.0 has been released.

• Will Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 come with runtime libraries for GTK+ 3.0? Are these installed by default?

• Will Ubuntu have development libraries and header files for compilation of GTK+ 3.0 programs?

• When will Ubuntu (as whole) move to GTK 3?

I'm mostly concerned about moving audio-recorder app from GTK+ 2.x to 3.0.

References:

• Migrating from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3 guide
• GTK+ 3 Reference Manual:

Possible Duplicate:
How to program a status icon that will display in Ubuntu 11.04 as well as in other distributions?

Hello, I have a small audio recording application programmed with GTK/GDK. (see picture). And I would like to add a tray-icon for it so users can control the application window and recording from it.

Adding a tray icon: I have planned to use the GtkStatusIcon class for this task. Ref: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.11/GtkStatusIcon.html

Is GtkStatusIcon the recommended solution that also works in Ubuntu's Unity and in the GNOME 3.0 desktop? I already googled a bit and found a good example on GtkStatusIcon.

Could I also use Libindicator for this task? Ref: https://launchpad.net/libindicator

Applets are small programs that you attach and start from the GNOME's toolbar. See picture: http://www.futuredesktop.com/audio-recorder/recorder-applet.ogv

My favourite applets are:

• rec-applet: Smart audio recorder applet. You can get this from Launchpad.

• clipart-finder: Find and download clipart to your computer. You can get this from the Launchpad.

1) Can I use these applets in UNITY as is?

2) What changes I have to make to applets' code (rec-applet and clipart-finder) to make them usable in Unity?

3) Where is the applet-specification for Unity?