Conky GUI / News: Recent posts

New features are not being developed, but the project is still maintained.

The project on the web:

• Sourceforge
  • It is used as the distribution platform.
  • Download and rate ready to install packages.
• Github
  • Source code repository
  • Issues and bug tracking, if you encounter problems, report them there.

Now the source code will be stored in Github.

New repository:
https://github.com/givanse/conky-gui

I just commited a few changes I made a while ago. Probably I'll release a new version just to have Conky GUI updated with the latest library versions.

Fixed some bugs.

Some parts of the project will be tested with JUnit. What will be tested is pretty much the parts that are written in Scala.

Some parts of the project will be written in Scala. Mostly the parts that parse the text and do the syntax highlighting.

The code is now available from a subversion repository. Its located under the "Code" section.

A .deb package is available for Conky GUI v1.2

It was built in Ubuntu, but it should work in any other Debian based distributions.

Change Log

What was fixed:

- "undo" action under the edit menu
- font parsing when reading conky files
- corrected a bug in the syntax highlight algorithm that caused high cpu usage

What was added:

- saved file pop up message
- shell windows with buttons
- open recent files menu option
- added a new color for syntax highlighting
- application icon (conky image)

What was improved:

- syntax highlight
- word completion

Thanks to sgsax and NonPE(non permissive environment) in #conky on irc.freenode.net for helping me testing Conky GUI v1.0

What was fixed:

- own_window_hints configuration variable
- unused variables are not written to the conkyrc file
- highlight of words outside the variable brackets
- word completion

What was added:

- preferences window
- custom refresh command
- custom comments
- create new file menu option

Conky GUI is out.

Features:

- syntax highlight
- word completion
- run conky from the gui
- color choosers
- easy access to configuration variables