Desktop Info App With Html Support (gtk-desktop-info)

[HippyRandall]

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My friend some of us love you for creating the Open Source you have sweat and toiled over to share with us to use.

There are a LOT of people here (and other distros I might add) that appreciate the work you have done and the support you give.

Lets hear it for K!

HIP HIP ...
{listening}

...RY RANDALL!!!
damnit
HOORAY!!!

[Bruce M.]

Well ok, just for my friend:

Hip Hip-py Randall!
HOO-RAW!

[VCoolio]

Thanks for this amazing app. For anyone who's interested: it works fine with Enlightenment / e17 too (bling module, provided that your gnome wallpaper is the same as your e17 one; ecomorph gives difficulties with black outline).

[kaivalagi]

Thanks for this amazing app. For anyone who's interested: it works fine with Enlightenment / e17 too (bling module, provided that your gnome wallpaper is the same as your e17 one; ecomorph gives difficulties with black outline).

Would it be worth me adding e17 to the --windowmanager option?

How would I go about getting the wallpaper settings programmactically within enlightenment? Any config file that stores the path??? command line tool to call etc?

On the ecomorph front, is there an equivalent option in it like the one I mention for the compiz workaround in the guide?

[VCoolio]

Hi, thought about adding e17 but it works with .edj files in which the wallpaper is stored, so that may be too much asked (you would have to somehow extract the .edj-file and then get the wallpaper; but the --wallpaper option works fine and also it uses the gnome-wallpaper by default, which then must be the same as the e17-wallpaper of course).

And thanks for the tip, but I don't know yet what the black outline exactly is (it belongs to the window border I think, but disabling window borders doesn't help). When I find out I'll post here. But while e17 as a whole works pretty good despite pre-alpha status ecomorph still has some flaws. As said, with bling no problems.

[kaivalagi]

UPDATE

I have put together two new plugins

• “twitter” - this plugin provides information on all your twitter friends, shown newest to oldest - note: to get running at the very least enter your username and password into the config file copied to ~/.config/gtk-desktop-info/plugin_twitter.config
  
• “processinfo” - this plugin provides process information, telling you a processes id, cpu usage and memory usage. The information can be sorted by cpu or memory usage

The plugins are accompanied with default config, style and template files.

Package changes

gtk-desktop-info: https://launchpad.net/~m-buck/+archi...source.changes

gtk-desktop-info-data: https://launchpad.net/~m-buck/+archi...source.changes

The apt packages for both intrepid and jaunty should be available shortly

Chimo

Edit: I've aded a couple of screenshots showing the default output for the new plugins (for the --colour=green option which I use)

[sirjoebob]

Fantastic. Running Jaunty here. Will update ASAP. Thanks for your continued efforts!

[arindom]

Thanks kaivalagi for adding processinfo. This is wonderful.

[cailamaia]

Hi! I'm still new to linux, and trying to learn how everything works. I can't quite seem to work out how to get this up and running. I seem to have managed to get everything to install properly, but I have no idea how to get the scripts to run. ^^;;

Is there a tutorial somewhere out there that one of y'all could be kind enough to post for me?

Thanks.

[kaivalagi]

Hi! I'm still new to linux, and trying to learn how everything works. I can't quite seem to work out how to get this up and running. I seem to have managed to get everything to install properly, but I have no idea how to get the scripts to run. ^^;;

Is there a tutorial somewhere out there that one of y'all could be kind enough to post for me?

Thanks.

Take a look at the guide, it talks you through the significant areas and gives details on an example script which runs the app several times for various plugin options. Also by running "gtk-desktop-info -h" you will get some brief details on options too.

You can open the guide by running the "gtk-desktop-info.guide" command, it assumes you have evince (pdf viewer) installed. Alternatively the pdf file can be found in /usr/share/gtk-desktop-info/