Hi, Do you have an example how to create new widgets with flaw? Is there any documentation?
I would like to try it! Thanks! Nathan On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 01:05:38PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Hello. > > Some here perhaps will remember I asked for some help a week ago on > #awesome, and then I have explained I was writing a Lua package to > provide a layer above Awesome widgets. I promised to deliver it the > next day and... I'm late :) > > So, here is Flaw (Fully Loaded AWesome), an OO package which is aimed > at helping the nice Awesome user to manage his widgets. Flaw provides > gadgets, which are widgets augmented with properties, and a > provider. Currently, Flaw proposes text and icon gadget for battery > monitoring, and a very simple text gadget for network monitoring. > > Providers are a solution to minimise the widgets updates needs. A same > provider can be used by multiple gadgets. Each provider maintains some > status data (generally read from the system) and refreshes it only > when necessary (ie. when the gadget with the shortest refresh delay > needs them), independently from the others. > > Someone on IRC suggested it was something like Wicked++. He was > probably right since the idea for Flaw came from the limitations I > found in Wicked for my personal use (mainly the need to update > everything at once, but this has perhaps changed now). > > A last word to thank all the contributors to Wicked and to the wiki, > which helped me learning Lua and understanding the Awesome > environment, and from where I get a lot of code or ideas. > > For those interested, please jump onto > <http://github.com/dsoulayrol/flaw/>. > > May it be useful, > -- > David > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. > -- _______________________________________ / I like to say "quark"! Quark, quark, \ | quark, quark! | | | \ -- Calvin / --------------------------------------- \ ,__, \ (oo)____ (__) )\ ||--|| * -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
