# Copyright 2019 Scott Caudle # # This file is part of mint-blog-checker-sample. # # mint-blog-checker-sample is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # mint-blog-checker-sample is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with mint-blog-checker-sample. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 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 -?
zcot/mint-blog-checker-sample
status icon program to check every 6 hours for new mint blog entry
PythonGPL-3.0