Xfce4 notes plugin

First release of the Xfce4 notes plugin for Xfce 4.4. Homepage is here:
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin

All the best,
Mike

One month without any message

I was busy. And I'm still busy.

I'm coding a new xfce4-notes-plugin for the new panel (version 4.4). It is fun :) I already have access on the webpages and the svn (or I guess so, I'm working on a local subversion at the moment). Should be released at end of the week, actually when I will add the on_delete_page callback. It supports multiple notes and some options for the window aspect (always on top, stick, show in taskbar, show at startup).

Also, I was at RMLL2006, and there was a wet man searching the reception... it was p0llux! After one day I ran sick... because of the heat. I was lug around Vandoeuvre to get in a Pharmacy (thanks guys). I didn't assist any conference all the week :/

See you in the next post about the first release of xfce4-notes-plugin.

Back off, I have my new (and first) laptop, it is an Asus A8F. I'm very happy, therefore this post.

See you sucker*.

* You dreaming of such a laptop

mmassonnet += 1 year

Today is my birthday and for this day I have get a nice cake, see here:

Theming is my actual pleasure

Xfwm4

I did some theming around the original theme of Xfce 4.4.

All I wanted was the title bar to be a bit smaller. I managed to reduce it from 6 pixels. Then I simplified the buttons. The work was quite long with redundant actions, well it is what it is. Now I have my theme :)

I posted my modifications at Xfce-look.org.

ajaxMP

I also did a theme for ajaxMP a little time ago which is based on Xfce-dawn theme (which is my current theme moreover). ajaxMP is a web interface for Music Daemon Player. I already mentionned it in the post "My current apps".

I am also working on a web design in black for a french rap production. They have very good instrumentals and I am sure the CD they are producting will kick ass. However I prefer good old Pink Floyd at this time.

Cheers.

Feed2rss filter in Python

Hello,

As I am trying to get used to snownews I ran into the need to convert atoms(?) from Blogger.com in rss(?). Why? because snownews only supports RSS. I was telling to myself "YZAH, I'm gonna try out Ruby" but after 2 minutes I (re)turned to Python :)

Feedparser is excellent and is available for Python as for Ruby. It can handle any types of feeds and you will be able to output the information as you want.

The script I wrote can be used by two ways.

• You can choose between giving it a URL:
  feed2rss.py http://mmassonnet.blogspot.com/atom.xml
• or passing it the content of a feed through a pipe:
  curl -s http://mmassonnet.blogspot.com/atom.xml|feed2rss.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Parses an atom file and generates an RSS1.0
# Author: Mike Massonnet (mmassonnet) <mmassonnet at gmail dot com>
# License: GNU General Public License 2 and above 
#          (cf. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
from feedparser import parse
import sys

if not len (sys.argv) > 1 and sys.stdin.isatty ():
    sys.stderr.write ('Usage: '+sys.argv[0]+' <url>\n')
    sys.exit (-1)

if sys.stdin.isatty ():
    d = parse (sys.argv[1])
else:
    d = parse (sys.stdin)

if d.bozo:
    sys.stderr.write ('Bad URL\n')
    sys.exit (-2)
print    '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>\n'    '<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"\n'    '         xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"\n'    '         xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"\n'    '         xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"\n'    '         xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"\n'    '         xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/">\n'    ' <channel rdf:about="'+d.feed.title_detail.base+'">\n'    '  <title>'+d.feed.title+'</title>\n'    '  <link>'+d.feed.link+'</link>\n'    '  <description>'+d.feed.subtitle+'</description>\n'    '  <dc:language>'+d.feed.title_detail.language+'</dc:language>\n'    '  <dc:creator>'+d.entries[0].author+'</dc:creator>\n'    '  <dc:date>'+d.feed.modified+'</dc:date>\n'    '  <admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="'+d.feed.generator_detail.href+'"/>\n'    '  <items>\n'    '   <rdf:Seq>\n'
for entry in d.entries:
    print '    <rdf:li rdf:resource="'+entry.link+'"/>\n'
print    '   </rdf:Seq>\n'    '  </items>\n'    ' </channel>\n'
for entry in d.entries:
    print    ' <item rdf:about="'+entry.link+'">\n'    '  <title>'+entry.title+'</title>\n'    '  <link>'+entry.link+'</link>\n'    '  <description><![CDATA['+entry.content[0].value+']]></description>\n'    '  <dc:date>'+entry.updated+'</dc:date>\n'    ' </item>\n'
print    '</rdf:RDF>\n'

Now when I add an atom feed into snownews I apply this filter and that's all folks ;)