Nas traduções actualizei vários módulos para estarem a 100% na altura do lançamento: fantasdic, gnome-packagekit, banshee e gparted (este estava pouco mais de 20% traduzido). O fantasdic é um dicionário que permite configurar várias fontes de dicionários, incluindo o google translate. O gnome-packagekit é um gestor gráfico de pacotes que pode utilizar vários motores (apt, yum, conary etc) e é utilzado por omissão, que eu saiba, no Fedora e no Foresight Linux. Está aqui no meu Fedora agora mesmo também .  O Banshee toda a gente conhece, é uma aplicação de gestão e reprodução de multimédia para o GNOME desenvolvida em GTK#.

Há uns dias foi feita também uma pequena revisão ao Gcompris.

Apesar do tempo livre ser pouco vou arranjando umas horitas para traduzir o que me deixa bastante contente.

Continuo a brincar com python e dbus, nomeadamente com o meu script musictracker que coloca a música e o artista que estamos a ouvir no banshee no estado do pidgin. Está um pouco mais polido agora, já gere alguns erros e coloca também o número de vezes que já ouvi uma música no estado. Um dia destes quando isto estiver mais “usável” posto aqui o script.

Ando também a ver a API do WordPress e talvez faça qualquer coisa para rapidamente postar pela linha de comandos. Inútil? quase, mas divertido!

Both scripts are, well, pretty incomplete (thats being very nice to myself) and the code is not pretty, but I really didin”t have the time to improve them. Anyways, these where just to play around with python, dbus and to have fun!

These only work with Pidgin and Banshee, thought it’s pretty simple to make them work with other IM and Music players that have a dbus interface. I’ll post the scripts and instructions on how to use the, if there’s anyone crazy enought to use them .

Post song to identi.ca

#!/usr/bin/env/python
 
# Copyright (C) 2009 Antonio Lima
# http://www.amrlima.info
# This program 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 2
# of the License, or any later version.
 
# This program 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.
 
import dbus
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
 
banshee = bus.get_object("org.bansheeproject.Banshee", "/org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlayerEngine")
pidgin = bus.get_object("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService", "/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject")
purple = dbus.Interface(pidgin, "im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface")
 
currentTrack = banshee.GetCurrentTrack()
 
artist = str(currentTrack[u'album-artist'])
album = str(currentTrack[u'album'])
track = str(currentTrack[u'name'])
 
trackinfo = " %s - %s  [%s]" %(track, artist, album )
print trackinfo
 
account = purple.PurpleAccountsFind('username@xmppserver.com/Home', '')
buddy = purple.PurpleFindBuddy(account, 'update@identi.ca')
PURPLE_CONV_TYPE_IM = 1
buddy_name = purple.PurpleBuddyGetName(buddy)
 
im = purple.PurpleConvIm(purple.PurpleConversationNew(PURPLE_CONV_TYPE_IM, account, buddy_name))
purple.PurpleConvImSend(im, "!listening to " + trackinfo)

If  you want to use this, you have to replace the username@xmppserver.com/Home field with your xmpp account (jabber, google-talk). You also need to have the XMPP activated in identi.ca. To run, just type:

$ python filename.py at the script directory.

This is a very simple script that gets the current track info from Banhsee and sends a message to update@identi.ca. It’s acctually very easy to add support to other music players that have a dbus interface. This is done using the python-dbus library.

Python musictracker

This was fun to code:

#!/usr/bin/env/python
 
# Copyright (C) 2009 Antonio Lima
# http://www.amrlima.info
# This program 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 2
# of the License, or any later version.
 
# This program 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.
 
import dbus, gobject
from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
loop = gobject.MainLoop()
 
DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
 
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
banshee = bus.get_object("org.bansheeproject.Banshee", "/org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlayerEngine")
purple = bus.get_object("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService", "/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject")
pidgin = dbus.Interface(purple, "im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface")
 
STATUS_AVAILABLE = dbus.UInt32(2)
STATUS_AWAY = dbus.UInt32(5)
 
def checkState(state):
	currentTrack = banshee.GetCurrentTrack()
	print "State Changed: %s" % state
	if state == 'playing':
		artist = str(currentTrack[u'album-artist'])
		album = str(currentTrack[u'album'])
		track = str(currentTrack[u'name'])
		trackinfo = " %s - %s  [%s]" %(track, artist, album)
		old_status = purple.PurpleSavedstatusGetCurrent()		# get current status
		status_type = purple.PurpleSavedstatusGetType(old_status)	# get current status type
		new_status = purple.PurpleSavedstatusNew("", STATUS_AVAILABLE)	# create new status with old status type
		purple.PurpleSavedstatusSetMessage(new_status, trackinfo)	# fill new status with status message
		purple.PurpleSavedstatusActivate(new_status, trackinfo)		# activate new status
	if state == 'paused':
		old_status = purple.PurpleSavedstatusGetCurrent()		# get current status
		status_type = purple.PurpleSavedstatusGetType(old_status)	# get current status type
		new_status = purple.PurpleSavedstatusNew("", STATUS_AWAY)	# create new status with old status type
		purple.PurpleSavedstatusSetMessage(new_status, "Banshee is paused. I'm probably not here now")	# fill new status with status message
		purple.PurpleSavedstatusActivate(new_status)			# activate new status
 
bus.add_signal_receiver(checkState, dbus_interface="org.bansheeproject.Banshee.PlayerEngine", signal_name="StateChanged")
 
mainloop = gobject.MainLoop()
mainloop.run()

This is very incomplete. It has some stupid problems which I still didn’t have time or motivation to fix. One of them is really stupid for a music tracker: After running the script, you need to pause and resume Banshee in order the script picks the track info and set your status message. Or you can wait untill the next song starts .

It’s hardcoded to set the satus to “available” while playing and “away” while paused. It picks up the chages in the music player.

Non ASCII characters in track info will give an error (I’m going to try to fix it) but if the next song is ASCII it will continue all right.

Long post! If someone (crazy people) tries these scripts and runs into trouble let me know! Maybe I can help… or not .

EDIT: To run the scrip without having to type: $python musictracker.py every time at the command line, you can create a very simple shell script:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/python /scriptlocation/musictracker.py

Make it executable and if you use GNOME-DO or deskbar-applet they will index it and you can just tipe the script name and there you go, the music tracker script runs! Don’t forget to replace “scriptlocation” with the scriptl location… .

I’m currently working (slowly) on some improvements to the script. But more on that latter.

Comments are welcome!

Good to see distros not afraid of Mono anymore. Will Ubuntu follow the same path? I guess is inevitable to do so and probably most GNOME centric distros will do the same. Glad I finished translating Banshee a few weeks ago .

Pidgin will also be replaced by Empathy. Glad to hear that . Hope others do the same soon.

I guess Banshee stepping in would make some people unhappy since it’s developed in mono. I find banshee a better music player then Rhythmbox so I think it wouldn’t be so bad after all. And I’m really not worried about Microsoft atacking Linux trought mono untill proved otherwise .

EDIT: Confirmed. Read here.

Some developers don’t want to let development cease so it’s not certain where this will end.

Resolvi procurar outras aplicações que tivessem todas as características que procurava: Rádio, bom suporte para LastFM, boa gestão de biblioteca de música, integração com o GNOME. Sugerido pelo Bruno Miguel e pelo Francisco Costa, decidi experimentar o Songbird. No geral gostei (tirando o EULA), parece-me um projecto muito interessante, que já não testava há muitos meses. A integração com o GNOME ainda deixa bastante a desejar e  o Songbird é bem mais que um reprodutor de música com todas as suas extensões à lá Firefox. No entanto, meu azar, a extensão para o lastfm apenas recolhe as músicas reproduzidas e não permite a reprodução de música do próprio lastfm, o que faz que por enquanto o Songbird não seja para mim.

Decidi então dar uma chance ao Banshee. O meu principal senão em relação ao Banshee é ser desenvolvido em Mono, a implementação opensource do .NET da Microsoft. Mas mesmo assim lá fiz um apt-get install banshee e um yum install banshee (Fedora). Até agora 5****. Nada de freezes nos streams, excelente suporte a lastfm e não consome tanta RAM como esperava (sensivelmente o mesmo do Rhythmbox).

Vai ficar aqui por mais algum tempo certamente. E se o seu desenvolvimento continuar a ser tão rápido e com grandes saltos de qualidade como tem sido provavelmente será um dos melhores media players do mercado em pouco tempo.