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
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.
This changes keys that are returned, previously only total I/O was
available in: {raw}, {kb} and {mb}. Keys returned now are (s=raw):
{total_s}, {total_kb}, {total_mb}, {read_s}, {read_kb}, {read_mb},
{write_s},{write_kb} and {write_mb}.
Previous version could return 1 on one update and 900 on the next (1st
being GB, 2nd MB) a user appending "GB" to the value suddenly has a
900GB disk available. Returned keys are now: size_mb, size_gb,
used_mb, used_gb, avail_mb, avail_gb, and percentage is now: used_p.
Default path is set to /sys/class/thermal but at least it's easier to
switch to /sys/class/hwmon (i.e. coretemp) now without much code
modification. Note; zone IDs are probably different than those in
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone
Initial widget code was sent by Benedikt Sauer. After some cleanup it
is ready to go into master. It uses data exposed trough /sys and it is
used in the exact same way as the bat widget (and /proc). This widget
will replace batat and acpitool, it will be moved to contrib and
retired.
Vicious will now divide values by 100 to match the default graph
max_value of 1. Graphs support changing this value, but progressbars
don't. We shouldn't use 100 for one and 1 for the other.
Vicious modules can be resued for other objects, like awful tooltips
or naughty notifications. We call a module directly and manipulate the
result until we have some nice output to display. For example, a wifi
widget could be a progressbar with the signal level, but on mouse
enter a tooltip is created with ssid/mode/channel information.
Adrian C. (anrxc)
Hiltjo Posthuma