Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:57:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Python module wnck? Message-ID: <jneto2$1rb$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <jnbj38$39s$1@dough.gmane.org> <20120426104323.000031e3@unknown> <jnc05e$krq$1@dough.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204261129010.21254@wonkity.com> <jnchct$t65$1@dough.gmane.org> <20120426184135.51e54718@atomizer64> <jncp4s$f84$1@dough.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204261946520.26349@wonkity.com> <jnd59l$kbq$1@dough.gmane.org> <20120427070759.000019f7@unknown>
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:07:59 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:54:29 +0000 (UTC) > Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> How many of the screenlets actually work? When I was working on >> >>> this I found that a number of them where too linux specific to >> >>> work. I have a screenshot of the sticky note and weather working >> >>> but that's about all I can recall working. >> >> >> >> I only wanted three: Clock, ClearCalendar and ClearWeather. They >> >> work perfectly. I haven't tried any of the others. >> > >> > Consider making a port. Clearly there is some demand. >> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ >> >> For the Python wnck module, or for screenlets? I'm afraid that >> technically I am well short of the ability to do either. I am more than >> willing to help anyone who elects to so, though. >> >> Incidentally (and this is addressed to Rod mainly), the ClearWeather >> module was broken. I had to hack it a bit to get it to work properly. >> It got confused over proxies, but since I am not unfamiliar with >> Python, that presented no difficulty. >> >> > Creating a port itself is rather simple...it the porting of the code > from Linux to FreeBSD that is the hard part. I have one official port > that I made as a way to brush off my C skills, it works but it was hell > getting some of the Linux specific translated but thanks to one of the > committers it got cleaned up... > > But anyway, the issues with screenlets is getting any of the screenlets > that interface with the system to work such as Mount, MyIP, Netmonitor > or the CPU Meter, when I tried this with FreeBSD 7.2 none of them worked > because of all the Linux device names. > > If you know python this should not be too hard just time consuming. The > only reason I stopped working on this was I moved from using OpenBox to > using the i3 window manager. > > I can check around and see if I still have any thing I worked on laying > around but I'm not sure about that...I changed hard disks since then. > > I do love python so I would not be adversed to working on some of the > individual screenlet modules. Thanks for the encouragement, but my skills really are not up to that. Cheers, anyway.
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