[Announce] Comic widget for maemo5
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I made a widget for myself so that I can get my favorite comic strips on the desktop. It turned out pretty nice so I decided to package it and upload it to devel.
The widget currently shows xkcd, Dilbert and Sinfest comics. Not many features really. simple next/previous strip, switch comic, scroll down/up on widgets that are tall, and link to view the current comic strip in the browser. At this moment I've only tested the current release on my own N900, so I'm interested to see if it works properly for others. It's available in (WARNING: Here be dragons!) extras-devel. If you are likely to use the application, but feel it's missing your favorite comic, feel free to suggest it, and I'll see what I can do. Bug reports and feature requests are also welcome. known issues
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Looking good! Thanks for making this public. It works fine here.
Consider adding www.phdcomics.com too. |
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Sounds great. How about Doonesbury, classic Peanuts, Zippy the Pinhead, Bloom County or anything else by Berk Breathed? Thanks!
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This is really awesome! But I felt that it was a bit too small for my liking.
Is it possible to make a bigger version? (my eyes aren't so good...) |
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I was thinking the same thing about size. Or make the widget size adjustable somehow?
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Great!
You should consider my favourite: http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/str...4-ce24426281fb |
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Great great Idea! I'm testing!
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--- Thank you all for the suggestions. Adding some more comics and I think the possibility to enable and disable comics will be the next features I add, after I get the annoying disappearing widget problem fixed. (Btw to find the invisible widget and remove it, modify the desktop where it was and you'll see the [x] in the top right and the [wrench] in the bottom left) Keep the suggestions coming. |
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I'll check it out. Please consider the following:
http://comics.com/frazz/ http://comics.com/off_the_mark/ http://comics.com/get_fuzzy/ |
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Anyway, I added phd (not in devel yet), but that thing is annoyingly slightly too tall in relation to the width to fit nicely into the widget. It will have to do for now though. I'll make an option where the shape fits that comic better when I get the different shapes option done. |
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at last some goodness to fill those empty spaces on my n900 desktop
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phdcomics is hillarious even for us non-grads :) I've seen it posted on walls in a few university offices. It's pretty popular along with xkcd and calvin & hobbes.
Your widget made me rethink my desktops in order to make room for it. I know have a single desktop dedicated to rss, this widget, and a couple web shortcuts. |
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Here are URL's of some comics I suggested earlier:
www.doonesbury.com www.zippythepinhead.com http://comics.com/peanuts http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/page...ite_strips.asp Thanks! |
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As the Games forum moderator, i feel it my duty to request Penny Arcade. :D
PS Can't read Ph.D. anymore since he made a character based on me (Slackenerny). It's just too painful. :P |
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EDIT: Everything's working fine! great widget! thanks!
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I tend to wait till a widget reaches -testing before, well, testing it so I will await the with interest. One thing springs to mind as being necessary for this: display of alt/title text. this is often half the joy of xkcd, and I have yet to persuade the n900 browser to do it.
A vague thought on a possible advanced feature; search of archive strip titles? |
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I sure don't want to spoil the party here, but my virtual keyboard doesn't pop up anymore, despite being checked in the text input settings. I only remember installing comic-widget recently, could it be related?
Just asking, not implying anything. Thanks. |
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Here's another good serial strip i've been meaning to follow since i discovered it, and probably actually would if i could put it in a widget: http://www.darthsanddroids.net It's a spoof strip that takes place in a universe without Star Wars, where a group of role-playing gamers is doing a "Star Wars" campaign. It's brilliant. It was inspired by The Dungeon Master of the Rings, a similar take on The Lord of the Rings. That one is finished, however, while Darths and Droids goes on... |
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http://www.gpf-comics.com/ (General Protection Fault) would be cool! ^^
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I normally have extras-devel disabled, but if I really want something, I enable it temporarily just to do the installation. |
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Is it possible to make this an app as well as the widget? I might not want the widget taking up a lot of space on my desktop, but an app that I could run manually might be useful. It would have the advantages that it could give more screen space to the comic, and allow swipe gestures and menus and so on.
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I'm flattered thay you wanted the widget enough to enable devel, but please be careful when upgrading and such. due to rapid(ish) development, havoc-causing bugs may appear between versions... |
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Hmm how about making an app to read them/zoom/etc... and have the widget just show the latest... you can select the one you want then and when you tap the widget it would open up a fullscreen app so you can read through it and other big ones as well.
On a side note some more to add: http://www.garfield.com/ http://www.dungeond.com/ http://www.megatokyo.com/ http://www.thenoobcomic.com/ |
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Either once I decide the widget is done, I could make an app to read them more closely. I'm kinda hoping someone else will do it though, as I'm pretty happy with the widget and the browser for closer inspection. |
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there's a new version in the autobuilder. It has some new, albeit crude features. You can now disable or enable comics from the configuration menu. The dialog will have to change when I add more comics, but the functionality is there for testing.
The other new thing is you can now change the size of the widget. There's currently no gui method for resizing, but it's really easy to do from command line. Here's how: launch xterm assuming you haven't hacked it to death, you emerg:e in /home/user/ from there type: Code:
echo "600,320" > .comic-widget/size.cfg don't put anything other than width,height in the size.cfg or the widget will (perhaps) not work. max width is 798px and min width is 400px max height is 420px and min height is 200px. values outside these will automagically be read as the nearest extreme. I still haven't fixed the disappearing widget bug, but I have managed to introduce a new one: Cyanide and Happiness occasional alpha channel makes some strips unreadable. There are probably heaps of bugs lurking under there, so let me know if you find any. Once I get the comic picker dialog changed to acommodate more comics, I will be adding more comics. wulffmorgenthaler next :D the latest version is 0.3.3-1 btw. |
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version 0.3.4-2 is in the oven. This one seems rather stable on my phone. I also managed to implement a proper list (TreeView) to choose which comics you want to rotate.
oh I also added Wulffmorgenthaler, which offers some of the most hilarious strips you can find. I'll focus on cleaning up the code and adding more comics for a while now. known issues v 0.3.4-2: - widget becomes invisible after reboot. - alpha channel makes some comics unreadable (only on Cyanide and Happiness) |
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0.4.0-1 in the oven.
I added "a few" new comics. Check it out. Still haven't figured out the invisible widget problem :/ But now I'll focus on that, since I have enough comics for a while. UI for changing size is also in the plans. |
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Is it possible to have a list of comics available in this widget? Thanks.
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tks a lot, great widget!!
never thought I would have daily Dilbert strips directly on my phone screen... |
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oops, ok it was not in the oven. Now it's really in the oven.. A comic list you say. Here:
9 Chickweed Lane, Agnes, Andy Capp, Alley Oop, Arlo and Janis, B.C., Ballard Street, Ben, Betty, Big Nate, Brevity, Candorville, Cheap Thrills, Committed, Cow and Boy, Cyanide and Happiness, Daddy's Home, Dilbert, Dog eat Doug, Drabble, F Minus, Family Tree, Farcus, Fat Cats, Ferd'nand, Flight Deck, Flo and Friends, Fort Knox, Frank and Ernest, Frazz, Free Range, Geech, Get Fuzzy, Girls and Sports, Graffiti, Grand Avenue, Heathcliff, Herb and Jamaal, Herman, Home and Away, It's All About You, Jane's World, Jump Start, Kit 'n' Carlyle, Li'l Abner, Liberty Meadows, Little Dog Lost, Lola, Luann, Marmaduke, Meg, Minimum Security, Moderately Confused, Momma, Motley, Nancy, Natural Selection, Nest Heads, Off the mark, On A Claire Day, One Big Happy, Over the Hedge, PC and Pixel, Peanuts, Pearls Before Swine, PHD Comics, Pickles, Prickly City, Raising Duncan, Reality Check, Red and Rover, Rip Haywire, Ripley's Believe it or not, Rose Is Rose, Rubes, Rudy Park, Scary Gary, Shirley and Son, Sinfest, Soup to Nutz, Speed Bump, Spot the Frog, State of the Union, Strange Brew, Tarzan, That's Life, The Barn, The Born Loser, The Buckets, The Dinette Set, The Grizzwells, The Humble Stumble, The Knight Life, The Meaning of Lila, The Other Coast, The Sunshine Club, Unstrange Phenomena, Watch Your Head, Wizard of Id, Working Daze, Working It Out, Wulffmorgenthaler, xkcd and Zack Hill Edit: Baby Blues My favorites are Wulffmorgenthaler, PC and Pixel, Sinfest and xkcd. |
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Could you add Baby Blues please, it's my favourite comic about parenting
http://www.babyblues.com/archive/archive.htm And thanks for creating such wonderful widget!!! |
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Version 0.4.1-2 is in the repo. Babyblues included. |
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Just updated....great works as always...!
I put it above the calendar widget....every morning when I wake up I take a quick look at the calendar full of thing to do...and I smile watching at your widget! |
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just another suggestion:
http://plusev.keenspot.com/ |
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