Re: advice for running a development copy of Kupfer

[Paul Bissex <paul bissex net>]

Manuel,

Thanks much for the reply. Rather than start by writing a new plugin,
my first idea is to tweak the Chrome bookmarks code (I want it to
search URLs as well as titles). 

Your idea about a separate instance with a custom .desktop
file sounds good, I'll try that.

Re questions, with apoligies I'll jump right in with a possibly
contentious style question -- any chance of changing the codebase to
be more PEP-8 abiding by using spaces for indentation instead of tabs?
All the codebases I work on follow that convention, and changing it
would remove a small obstacle to drawing in experienced Python
developers.

Thanks,

pbx


> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:53:02 +0200
> From: Manuel Kehl <mank319 zoho com>
> To: Paul Bissex <paul bissex net>
> Cc: kupfer-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: advice for running a development copy of Kupfer
> Message-ID: <1412549582 2268 0 smtp zoho com>
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>
> Hi Paul,
>
> welcome to the "Kupfer community".
>
> For using two instances of Kupfer, I would recommend to have a regular 
> installation for all day use and one that you build yourself. The 
> latter could be started via a custom (distinguishable) .desktop file in 
> your  ~/.local/share/applications folder that points to the executable.
> The easiest way of writing custom .desktop files is by having a look at 
> .desktop files in /usr/share/applications and adapting the lines of 
> interest.
>
> To be honest I never applied any changes to the "Kupfer core", so this 
> is nothing more than a guess of how one could possibly achieve your 
> task.
>
> Depending on what you are striving to implement it may be sufficient to 
> write a simple plugin. Kupfer has a very powerful API for that purpose: 
> http://engla.github.io/kupfer/Documentation/PluginAPI.html
>
> Please do not hesitate to ask any questions and let us know when you 
> started working on something ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Manuel
>
> On So, Okt 5, 2014 at 10:26 , Paul Bissex <paul bissex net> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I switched my work machine from OS X to Ubuntu in July, I've been 
> > using Kupfer for a month or so now (after long experience with 
> > Launchbar on OS X and a month with Gnome Do).
> >
> > I'm an experienced Python developer and want to try 
> > customizing/enhancing Kupfer.
> >
> > My question is a practical one: what's a good way to set this up on 
> > my machine? I'd like to be running my fork live, so that I can see 
> > how my changes work in real use and have a reasonably tight 
> > code/try/fix cycle.
> >
> > Any advice? Pointers to general guides are OK, too, since I have no 
> > Linux app development experience.

-- 
Paul Bissex
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