Re: Module Proposal: Invest Applet

[Matt Keenan <Matt Keenan Sun COM>]

I agree this should replace gtik directly, a few quick hacks on solaris 
and it was up and running, much
better than gtik in my opinion....

Raphael Slinckx wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Since we must propose modules for gnome 2.16 here it is:
>
> I'm proposing the Invest Applet (not-yet-)module to be included.
>
> I've talked about the applet a couple of months ago on my blog, here are
> the two relevant posts:
> http://raphael.slinckx.net/blog/2006-02-04/deskbar-2139x-series-and-invest-applet
> http://raphael.slinckx.net/blog/2006-01-18/stock-trading-yay
>
> The code isn't released anywhere else than the link provided on the blog
> and the bzr archive, but i can make it a gnome cvs module of course with
> little pain.
>
> The announcement received a warm welcome by most gnome developpers and
> users that want to see the old invest applet die.
>
> The code hasn't evolved much since then, but it's relatively simple,
> sloccount reports ~1000 lines (in python).
>
> Outstanding improvements that are to be made for it to become usable,
> are better gconf integration (things are saved to a file right now),
> update the popup window positionning code from deskbar code, and check
> the computations are correct. 
>
> Nice to have improvements are removal of the figures in the panel but
> use a color coded indicator for the day variation of gains/losses to
> protect privacy.
>
> While the applet may not be *really* useful (few applet are :)) it has a
> great wow factor, and is really funny to use.
>
> As i won't have full-time to work on maintaining and improving it, i
> asked Lionel 'Ploum" Dricot (a long time gnome/ubuntu/linux advocate
> http://ploum.frimouvy.org/ )
>  to assist me in this task, so it will have also the benefit of bringing
> a new (code-)contributor in Gnome.
>
> Maybe someone else can start contributing (preferably a new contributor)
> too ?
>
> Maybe the code could be ported to C for less memory usage ?
>
> If the module is accepted but seems to not be able to reach a usable
> goal as we get closer to 2.16 we can always retract it..
>
> Thanks !
> Raf
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