Contrib should be better known because of the extra widgets it
contains. While the vicious-fbsd branch by Richard Kolkovich was
already added to the vicious home page and needs more exposure.
Widget type uses curl now, like all other types accessing network
resources (until, if ever, we switch to luasocket). Where previously
only the currently playing song was returned now you can access these
keys: {volume}, {state}, {Artist}, {Title}, {Album}, {Genre}. You can
provide an optional table argument to change password, host or port.
Login information is now kept in the ~/.netrc file, which should be
readable only by the owner. This should solve futher problems with
unquoted characters addressed in the last commit. The format of the
~/.netrc file is as follows (also documented in the README):
machine mail.google.com login user password pass
This helper will capitalize the first letter of every word in a given
string. It'll be useful for some widget string which look out of place
otherwise, like "rain, snow" (<- where did this come from?). But it
can also be useful for people that like to use this format, camel case
or simillar.
Most distributions keep it in /sbin, some in /usr/sbin, and somewhere
it is, in other places it is not, in the user's $PATH. Now a simple
discovery is done to handle this.
Nothing hard coded in the worker now. Feeds are together with user
data, easily swaped. Feeds are not widget args because user needs to
modify the file for login data anyway. No progress toward safer
storage, Kwallet looks promising but dbus handling is hell - what of
non KDE users? Every other script, including much praised checkgmail
has plain text login. Nobody cares?
Widget type now takes the thermal zone as an argument, or a table with
1st field as thermal zone and 2nd field as data source. Available data
sources are: "proc" (procfs ACPI), "sys" (sysfs like before) and
"core" (sysfs coretemp). When only the thermal zone is provided widget
defaults to "sys".
This widget type now takes the distribution name as an argument; Arch,
Arch S, Debian and Fedora examples are now in the package manager
table. Feedback from yum users is needed.
Adrian C. (anrxc)