Re: helping hand! :)

[Toms <toms baugis gmail com>]

i hoped that you have already found the blog
http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/

There is a section called "installing" that tells you how to install
hamster from sources:
http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/building-and-running/

There is no need for virtualbox.


As for loosing data and not having documentation - the code is the
documentation. You don't need to install anything to read the code.
It's available online:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/hamster-applet/tree/

But to the point:
The old location (2.28.+) is $HOME/.gnome2/hamster-applet/
The new location (2.29.+) is $HOME/.local/share/hamster-applet/

Also, this will help you to get on track:
http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html

Maybe followed by this one:
http://projects.gnome.org/ORBit2/appletstutorial.html

well, and the general:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/

Now, that's quite a lot of documentation - isn't it.

Toms


On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Jonathan Zacsh <jzacsh gmail com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I _have_ actually studied python on my own and enjoyed it.
>
> Just a few things:
> - I'm just learning this for the first time:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/z70.html (wasn't sure what the .am
> on the make file was) -- so I see I should probably build stuff in a
> virtual box.... is that what you (or others) do?
> - If I decide to build and play in my own username, I would hate to
> lose all my data. Other than manually going to "show overview" and
> clicking the "save report" button -- could I just tar up a copy of the
> data, right where it is? -- where does the data actually sit? (or
> where could I read about this, there doesn't seem to be any
> documentation on the project page).
>
> Thanks a ton :)
> --
> Jonathan Zacsh
> blog.jzdev.me
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 14:11, Toms <toms baugis gmail com> wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan!
>>
>> Thanks for linkage, that always helps.
>>
>> Hamster is 99% written in Python (1% being the keybinder code which we
>> would love to see in python) - a rather elegant species of programming
>> languages which I encourage you to learn as soon as possible.
>> But if you are looking for what to do - i'd suggest first getting
>> sources and install the most recent version, and then start diving in!
>>
>> The whole list of active bugs is here:
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=hamster-applet;bug_status=UNCONFIRMED;bug_status=NEW;bug_status=ASSIGNED;bug_status=REOPENED;bug_status=NEEDINFO
>>
>> None of them are burning and some are contradicting each other, so,
>> humm,... good luck!
>>
>> Toms
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Jonathan Zacsh <jzacsh gmail com> wrote:
>>> Hello, this is not one of the jillions of messages about gsoc, however
>>> I am new and would like to help.
>>>
>>> I wrote a blog post about how much I love the little applet:
>>> http://blog.jzdev.me/2010/02/efficient-time-management-inspired-by-hamsters-and-gnome/
>>>
>>> I'm in my second semester of C++ and absolutely _loving_ it. I'm very
>>> proficient in xhtml & CSS (though I assume that's useless here or
>>> anywhere relating to the project).
>>>
>>> Anyways, just saying hello and I'll be glad to help. I've already
>>> noticed the a flaw (in _my_ use-experience).
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Zacsh
>>> blog.jzdev.me
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