/mint-blog-checker-sample

status icon program to check every 6 hours for new mint blog entry

Primary LanguagePythonGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

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General program overview:
1. Overall it's a status icon program, and shows a different colored icon for new blog entry
    -at any time the user can see the mint blog using xdg open method.
2. A timer loop is set to 6 hours for checking blog entry.
3. Code downloads mint blog file,
    -compares the date of the latest date to a previously saved date(or null date on first run),
    -with date difference then a green icon is shown, otherwise and orange icon(programmer's artwork).

TODO:
-installer
-desktop file
-autostart
-tooltips
-panel plugin integration? different for each MATE, Xfce, and Cinnamon?
-nice icon
-?