It's been a month since
my announcement
of the vicious library. I kept my self busy and there
are 24 widgets in there now... and I'm all out. I went over
those from the Todo list and even over
the Wishlist. Last changes were dedicated to some cleanup and
I removed padding completely. I have no use for it and if you
do I'm sure you'll manage to reuse the old code. If you used it only
in a widget or two think about using "string.format"
instead. More and more people requested the tarball every day and
users started sending me e-mail. After a while I gave up and
put vicious
in git due to popular demand. I serve a bare repo over
http now. First, an updated summary:
* Original code modularized
* Widgets ported from Wicked:
- CPU, Date, FS, MEM, MPD, NET, Uptime
* Widgets written for Vicious:
- Battery, Battery (acpitool), CPU Information, CPU Frequency,
Disk I/O, Entropy, HDD Temperature, Mbox, Mbox Count, Maildir,
Org-Mode, Pacman, Sysload, Thermal, Volume, Weather, Wireless
However, as removal of padding shows, I am still writing this
primarily for my self. There could be more major changes in vicious
soon, or maybe none at all since I'm not very pleased with the
direction of awesome 3.4. I'm waiting to see how things will
work out. Some parts of vicious will need to be completely rewritten
in case I do switch. I also had other important decisions to make,
while writing all these widgets, especially about using libraries that
are not in the standard Lua distribution. For example, mail
widgets for counting messages in both
mbox and maildir folders could really benefit
from the LuaFileSytstem library. But I decided against it for
the time being. However the next development cycle, for 3.4,
could include them.