Re: ANNOUNCE: MChronos - Astronomy Clock Applet
 

Thanks for confirming! Now I can safely promote to 'extras', I guess.

Hmmm...I will have to check that out! The version on my tablet seems to be fine in that mode -- but maybe I fixed something along the way unitentionally (?). Thanks for pointing out missing 'info' description in the README file :)

Re: ANNOUNCE: MChronos - Astronomy Clock Applet
 

Mostly that one could set the location and similar using the interface rather then having to edit the ini...

Re: ANNOUNCE: MChronos - Astronomy Clock Applet
 

(Regarding Sphere mode)
I don't think there's anything unusual about my setup (mchronos 0.37-2, I changed the latitude and longitude in mchronos.ini by hand, but I restored the original file and had the same problem), but still I wonder if I'm the only one with this problem. Is there anything I can do to figure it out?

Re: ANNOUNCE: MChronos - Astronomy Clock Applet
 

Ah! I was afraid that you meant that...unfortunately, as mentioned earlier in this thread (or ones also discussing the limitations of the 'HildonDesktop' applet technique), many of the 'typical' PyGTK buttons (including ones that would probably enable the use of 'text' editing) don't appear to work (i.e. the desktop crashes). This is what prevented me -- for the longest time -- from having any 'interactivity' at all (buttons, etc). It was only when it dawned on me to use my own clumsy 'virtual' buttons that I was able to introduce that ability. Specially for setting the lat/long, another feeble alternative is to use the new feature in the 'earth' mode (sunclock) to set a new location by 'clicking'. However, this is not permanent -- but it quickly enables re-setting to any other world location.

On the other hand, I have *not* investigated what other developers have managed to accomplish re: interactive GUI features on their desktop applets -- especially not the Python-based ones, so perhaps there are (now) ways of doing stuff like this that I am not aware of :)

Re: ANNOUNCE: MChronos - Astronomy Clock Applet
 

Hmmm...well, I intend to add a few more *minor* features in the near future, so I will investigate that for sure. What comes to mind is only the two possibilities:

- your 'window' is too low so the 'buttons' at the bottom are being cut off (?)
- a bug in the program is not allowing the 'button' code to run (one of the annoyances about this applet development is *no* error messages whatsoever -- at least none that I can see/use)

Re: ANNOUNCE: MChronos - Astronomy Clock Applet
 

well what hometools do is not so much add buttons on the front as open its own settings dialog.

that is, by going to menu > applet settings > hometools, one can open a window that allows one to change text colors, fonts and so on.

so basically you could open a window that allows one to set defaults like text shown or hidden, position and so on...

Re: ANNOUNCE: MChronos - Astronomy Clock Applet
 

Ah! Very interesting idea! From a brief look at 'Hometools', I am impressed at the 'professional-style' code appearance -- compared to my own. I'll check out my ability to do some of this...

Re: ANNOUNCE: MChronos - Astronomy Clock Applet
 

I see a new version is up. Only thing i would say thats missing from the menu is a may to manually enter a location.

Re: ANNOUNCE: MChronos - Astronomy Clock Applet
 

Oh man! I just put that version up last night, and I haven't had time to 'announce' it yet! I will do so shortly :)

Yep, the README file mentions the 'lack' that you point out. For now, it is the best that I can do. In the meantime, does the new version even *work*? I hadn't had time to 'test' the packaging itself.

Re: ANNOUNCE: MChronos - Astronomy Clock Applet
 

seems to work ok here, it even gave me a more correct looking daily sun track after i ended up testing the gps way of setting my location.