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[neurino]

This is a little bash script I wrote to learn some shell scripting.

It's main merit is it's small, around 5.5KB, and it could be less if I'd remove script comments, xml indentations etc...
I wanted to use only stock Puppy tools such as gtkdialog3, Glade to design interfaces and gtrayicon. I live tested it only on Wary 030, Quirky 1.2 and Puppeee RC 7 at the moment.

Usage is pretty staightforward, on first run:

- Fill settings dialog that comes up with your username and password (they will be saved unencrypted in ~/.tinygmc file)

- Set time interval (0 = checks only when you deactivate then reactivate tray icon)

- Set max number of messages to preview (to avoid huge dialogs)

- Set if you want it to run at Startup (will place a symlink in ~/Startup)

Periodically a gtkdialog appears with unread mail notifications, clicking on a preview opens the mail in default browser.

Red icon in tray = periodic check is activated
Grayed icon in tray = periodic check is deactivated

All the sed part that parses the xml feed belongs to potong (thanks for all the tips)

If anyone wants to give a look at the code and suggest improvements I'll be glad, please consider I'm a noob in bash/linux.

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For older versions of puppy like 3.01 the good vovchik has made a retro version of tinygmc 0.0.3, you can download it here


Changelog:

version 0.0.3 (bugfixes):

creating correct symlink to gtrayicon

added -k (insecure) option to connect to SSL site without certificates to avoid problems with some, maybe buggy, versions of curl

version 0.0.2:

Waits for internet connection before checking (v.0.0.1 failed first check on Startup)

Added "last message time" tooltip hovering on each notification dialog entry

No more notifications if no new messages since last dialog: if you closed it you already read it! When you want to see what's unread simply deactivate / reactivate tray icon (a.k.a. double click). I find working this way is way less annoying than seeing the same headings every xx minutes.

[neurino]

version 0.0.2

[seaside]

neurino,

Nicely done.

I tried it in Puppy431 and Lupu510 and unfortunately it doesn't run. I then thought I'd install Wary to check it out, but then the code looks generic enough to run on other puppies.

I'll take a look later and see how it could be modified.

Regards,
s

[dejan555]

[seaside]

[neurino]

Ok, the grtayicon symlink does not work since I found it's not in the same place in all Puppy derivatives...

I added a postinstall script that creates the symlink dynamically, you can run in terminal:

[vovchik]

Dear neurino,

Could you kindly tar.gz the glade file for gtrayicon and post it here? I don't have it and want to try your app.

Many thanks in advance,
vovchik

[neurino]

gtrayicon is not a glade file and should be in almost any Puppy derivative...

http://gtrayicon.sourceforge.net/

try to call it from commandline, if you really don't have it seaside posted it above, just rename it.

[vovchik]

Dear neurino,

The reason I mentioned the glade file is because I get this when running from a terminal:

[neurino]

Dear vovchik,

here attached the contents of /usr/share/gtrayicon/

I don't know which other files, more than gtrayicon binary and these, are required.

Anyway I guess the better solution, if you don't have gtrayicon on your puplet, is to compile it from source.

Best regards
neurino

[vovchik]

Dear neurino,

Thanks again. I recompiled it under Puppy 3.01 and had to change g_strcmp0 to strcmp in the source (a usual thing for old GTK 2.10). There was only one instance that required changing. As for the span stuff (text attributes) in your generated glade files, they don't show up properly in GTK 2.10 - I see the metalabels in the inbox list, e.g. <b></b>. Must be something with PANGO and I am investigating.

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. If and when I figure out the span business, I will post a "retro" version with the modded gtrayicon and tweaked glade-generating code. It could be something as simple as single or double quotes, but I don't know yet.

[neurino]

If you don't care about bigger texts in dialogs you can just strip <span>s (or maybe strip and cut down some of the atom texts to make dialogs smaller)

Bye

[vovchik]

Dear neurino,

Thanks for all of the replies. I am interested in the span stuff and glade because I wrote this little editor for "span" stuff and, like you, obviously, like minimalist solutions.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=30359 (page 5 I think)

What I would do is to get rid of curl dependencies. Luigi has written a little prog (with source) that does most of what wget and curl do, and does not have ugly dependencies. I posted that somewhere (search for Luigi and vovchik). Long ago, I also posted the source and binary for "email", which can query POP3 servers and knows SSL, if I remember correctly. It is also small and not too dependent on many extraneous libs.

Your use of glade generation, on the fly, is brilliant, so hats off. Nice solution, and efficient.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[vovchik]

Dear neurino,

I did as you suggested and removed the metatags from "check" (that's the easy way out). It works perfectly in 3.01. However, I still want to understand how to get the tags working, since they do work in regular gtkdialog and in all other apps that make use of glade. So, some head-scratching is in order on my part.

With thanks and kind regards,
vovchik

PS. What about scrambling the password in the rc file?

[vovchik]

Dear nuerino,

Here is a pet containing my modded gtrayicon and modded check so that your prog will work OK in older puppies - e.g. 3.01. I hope I didn't forget anything when making the pet.

With kind regards,
vovchik