Sweet: Screenlets (Dashboard/gDesklets like widgets)

[barney_1]

Installing on feisty I ran into a problem:

mike@krusty:/usr/local/share/screenlets$ screenletsd start
Screenletsd v0.0.1 | (c) RYX (Rico Pfaus) 2007 | released under the GPL
mike@krusty:/usr/local/share/screenlets$ Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/share/screenlets/screenletsd.py", line 43, in <module>
    from xdg import BaseDirectory
ImportError: No module named xdg

Looks like I need python-xdg installed but apt-get game me some dependency issues. I tried:

sudo aptitude install python-xdg

That didn't do the trick as I no have this:

mike@krusty:/usr/local/share/screenlets$ screenletsd start
Screenletsd v0.0.1 | (c) RYX (Rico Pfaus) 2007 | released under the GPL
mike@krusty:/usr/local/share/screenlets$ Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/share/screenlets/screenletsd.py", line 46, in <module>
    import screenlets
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/screenlets/__init__.py", line 266, in <module>
    class Screenlet(gobject.GObject, EditableOptions):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/screenlets/__init__.py", line 290, in Screenlet
    __NOTIFY_OBJ), __NOTIFY_IFACE)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/_dbus.py", line 412, in get_object
    follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/proxies.py", line 232, in __init__
    _dbus_bindings.UInt32(0))
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/proxies.py", line 171, in __call__
    reply_message = self._connection.send_message_with_reply_and_block(message, timeout)
dbus.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files

I may try reacocard's Edgy repo listed two posts above to get this thing rolling.

EDIT: No dice on the above posted repo either.

[reacocard]

thnx reacocard....though after installing it, there is no trace of it....

no screenlets commands, no screenlet folder, nothing

(also, sorcerer has his repo over here http://hendrik.kaju.pri.ee/ubuntu/di...gy/screenlets/ (which funnily enough doesn't seem to work either )

(8th post down http://forum.go-compiz.org/viewtopic...=asc&start=345 )

Gah. You're right. Why on earth doesn't he use a proper Makefile instead of this stupid setup.py junk? It's a pain in the *** to package. I'll see if I can fix it, but it may be awhile.

beryl widget plugin package should still be good though.

[rado_london]

I love it but I have black colour around each of the desklets. Any one knows how to fix this?

[delfick]

I love it but I have black colour around each of the desklets. Any one knows how to fix this?

you need a compositing manager for transparency to work (the black bits are transparent)

i.e. beryl/compiz/xcompmgr

[reacocard]

Repository should be fixed now.

[delfick]

Repository should be fixed now.

i'm starting to wonder if this is a problem with my computer, because it still doesn't work ......

i'm gonna try installing the actual package and see if it installs....


(o ye, and i can't test if the the widget plugin installs from your repo, because it trys to install beryl-core as well, and i'm using svn....)

[picpak]

Would this make a good alternative to adesklets?

[delfick]

Gah. You're right. Why on earth doesn't he use a proper Makefile instead of this stupid setup.py junk? It's a pain in the *** to package. I'll see if I can fix it, but it may be awhile.

beryl widget plugin package should still be good though.

hmm, reading the README file here

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ INSTALLATION:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Extract the archive into some directory. Navigate to that directory.
As root-user run "python setup.py install" (Ubuntu users just add a
leading "sudo" to install).

Alternatively, you can use the Makefile and simply run "make install"
(as root-user).

EDIT :: and the makefile worked for me

[delfick]

Would this make a good alternative to adesklets?

as it progresses....hell ye!!

[deadlydeathcone]

Repository should be fixed now.

It's working fine, thanks.

I just took a:

screenletsd start
screenletsd add Control

to get it started.

Thanks for bringing this up delflick, I had forgotten all about these! There's been a lot of progress since v0.0.2.

edit: using these as widgets is way easy now. Just enable the widget layer in beryl/compiz and check "treat as widget" in a widgets properties box.