UPS monitor 0.4 is now out, with several enhancements and adjustments to meet the GNOME HIG.
The main addition to 0.4 is the system tray icon, which will (hopefully) work flawlessly and let you hide the UPS monitor window, showing an elegant status icon for your UPS.
Go get it now!
UPS monitor 0.3 has been released. Here are the changes:
So, what are you waiting for? Go download UPS monitor 0.3 now!
This is a short letter exchange with the PyGTK+ people:
You do realize you can download the reference and tutorial tarballs for offline browsing, right?
Yes. It just happens that this was my thought process:
“Well, I’m home, let’s see if this time nut works right on my computer”
“Good, it’s notifying me via upsc and upsmon”
“Now let’s fire up knutclient”
“Shit, it doesn’t work”
“tar zxvmf knutclient*gz”
“grep -r LISTVAR knutclient*”
“it should be working, why doesn’t it?”
“ah, the protocol… it’s changed”
“let’s try to hack knutclient”
“./configure: error, you are missing some kind of shit you don’t know here to get, and you don’t have net access to resort to apt-get”
“well, let’s develop a gui app that lets me see nice gauges”
“……crap, everything works okay, i’m missing the gui, fire up glade”
“… how do i load glade file?”
“locate pygtk | grep examples”
“konqueror /usr/share/doc/gtk-doc/”
“…………30 hours after………..”
“konqueror http://freshmeat.net/”
That’s me.
Yesterday begun what today is a fully featured free software GNOME application.
UPS monitor lets you connect to your UPSs and view their status. It is extremely easy to use, usable, elegant, and practical.
It’s written in Python using the GTK 2 and Glade toolsets, and it’s only 630 lines of code (for 14 hours straight, that ain’t bad).
I’ll be posting the application to a software forum like Freshmeat soon.
I’m always on the prowl for mentions of my projects in the press. Here are some links I’ve found regarding Directory administrator, and giving credit where credit is due.
I just read Mosfet’s reply to Pennington’s article. I’ve got a few things to say, too. Click on the Read more… link to read the short piece.
Today, I read a story on the World Tech Tribune. It really made me angry. Reply follows: