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Eyesaver

Plasma 4 Extensions

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Description:

The user manual of any PC says to take a break each once in a while, but often we stay in front of the computer for hours...
This plasmoid has been made to remind us to take our eyes off the screen sometimes.

Any comment or suggestion is appreciated. (as my English is not so good, you can help me correct the errors in the guide or in the plasmoid itself...)

PS: this applet will save you from glaucoma,myopia and stress!

Last changelog:

11 years ago

==0.4
--pause only begins when user presses Ok
--the pause can be "paused"
--sound now works in kde 4.2

==0.3
--now compiles in kde 4.2
--edited installation instructions

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Ganton
7 years ago

Since the eyesaver plasmoid is not updated since 2009, I ended using Rsibreak, available in the Kubuntu packages.

snvv
10 years ago

Hello,
I compiled the program for Debian sid but after installing it I can not find it in the widgets.
Any Idea about this please?
Thanks

aidosl
11 years ago

I am modifying the applet to use the Knotify system rather than pop-ups/phonon. Would you apply the patches? If so, where do you want me to send them?

licnep
11 years ago

That would be great! i tried to do that myself, but i failed miserably..
as for the patch you can send it to me at: lsnpreziosi[at]gmail[dot]com,
or you could upload it somewhere..
thank you and goodbye!

aidosl
11 years ago

Thanks for your reply. Right now, I have just modified the code so that the initial pop-up (asking you if you are ready to pause, want to skip the pause, or shut eyesaver off) now uses Knotify. I stopped work while I waited for your reply, but now I will resume.

I think it would be unwise to ship the code in its current state, as it has no way to configure the notification, while yours could turn the sound on and off; so I will be looking into that next. Would you still like the patches as they currently stand? (It would be great if you'd open up a gitorious or github repo for your code!)

Also, if the in-pause dialog is to be Knotified!™, then it definitely needs that sexy progress bar that file transfer dialogs get. But I don't know if that should be moved to Knotify, because the dialog as it is now can jump on top of all the windows. What do you think?

Congrats on a great plasmoid--practical, useful, simple, and very good looking.

(ps: I'm curious to know what language the code is in. My guess is Italian?)

licnep
11 years ago

I just created a github repository, you should find it if you go to github.com and look for "eyesaver".
We can continue our discussion on github wiki, if it works...

ps:you're right, the code is written in Italian! It has to be almost impossible to understand it if you don't speak italian! :)
(if i have some time i'll try to translate it and add some comments before the next release...)

aidosl
11 years ago

Thanks for the github repo. I've forked and patched; you can take a look at the diff and the commit logs. It's all pretty simple stuff right now. I'll start using the github wiki for notes and stuff.

Don't worry about translating it. The code is pretty straightforward--I like to think it speaks for itself. Plus, imagine how proud I was of myself when I figured out what was going on!

srog
11 years ago

Working fine with the Kubuntu 9.04.

Thank you.

drmr1
12 years ago

I can't get it work under kde 4.2, cmake fails.

devel0per
12 years ago

Ebuild with kde-4.2 build patch is pushed into kde-testing overlay.

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=commitdiff;h=443a9e8a4ac9e6b917b6799840699da131abe711

devel0per
12 years ago

I mean Gentoo distro of course ;)

dodox
12 years ago

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22936

Patch to support screen lock included.

devel0per
12 years ago

Good work! Thank you.

Ebuild for Gentoo hackers is here - http://sonylaptoptools.sourceforge.net/ebuilds/eyesaver-0.2a.ebuild

downdiagonal
12 years ago

The link doesn't work.

buschmann23
12 years ago

Yes, it would be nice, if the tarball would be hosted here on kde-look.org, or at least somewhere else, where one do not need italian or an account to download it. :)

licnep
12 years ago

I'm sorry, it was working for me (probably because i had some cookies on my pc). Now i uploaded the tarball on kde-look.org and it should work.
Thanks for the report

madsheytan
12 years ago

Great idea for a Plasmoid :D Thx ;]

11 years ago

==0.4
--pause only begins when user presses Ok
--the pause can be "paused"
--sound now works in kde 4.2

==0.3
--now compiles in kde 4.2
--edited installation instructions

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