FBuntu: Facebook Notifier for Messaging Menu

[GWBouge]

Python doesn't really require you to specify data types or begin variable names with special characters, it just kindof figures it out on the fly by what you set to it. Yeah, mmText is the variable that contains what is shown. self.response is a dictionary (in Python speak), which contains the 'title' info you want to display.

self.response['title'] is a string, hence mmText will be a string, but you can slice strings apart like you can with lists/arrays, so:

# To get the first twenty characters and add ' ...'
mmText = self.response['title'][:20] + ' ...'

# slightly more elaborate: put an ellipsis between the first and last ten chars
mmText = '%s ... %s' % (self.response['title'][:10], self.response['title'][-10:])

So, yeah, just throw an if statement in there to see if the string is over a certain length so you can cut it up however you want, else show it all.

[shizz]

Thanks for all the help guys! I'll give it a go when I get the time.

[zniavre]

good evening

Sadly this simple (but usefull) applications is broken since the 12.10 upgrade.

it does not show icon on messaging menu any more but sometimes notifications works

any update are in progress ?

http://paste.ubuntu-fr-secours.org/src-109527


here is the debug.log file if it can help

Best regards

[fluteflute]

good evening

Sadly this simple (but usefull) applications is broken since the 12.10 upgrade.

it does not show icon on messaging menu any more but sometimes notifications works

any update are in progress ?

http://paste.ubuntu-fr-secours.org/src-109527


here is the debug.log file if it can help

Best regards

I am aware. Unforunately at the moment I don't have the time to fix it, although I expect I will sometime (but perhaps not until Christmas )

[zniavre]

thank you, happy to see you will continue the software

best regards

[darkcarnivalink]

Not sure if this is still active or not, but tried everything and debug file shows
"2013-02-03 09:32:40 notificationChecker.py:57 ERROR: Error 104 Requires valid signature"
nothing shows in the notification and it's wonk. I am fairly new to Ubuntu and writing this code, I am stuck in something about a SSH id for launchpad, (not too sure why I need that) but still. Have tried this got it in and loaded, followed the read me and ... nothing. Is this another dead notifier for FB?

[fluteflute]

Is this another dead notifier for FB?

Yes sorry

[darkcarnivalink]

Thanks for the respond, ugh, ok well hopefully I'll find or stumble upon one that is actually working along with Google voice. Got the skype wrap around working perfectly in notifier, and the gmail notifier, be great to have all of them in one nice nifty spot since I refuse to run windows anymore after the last crash lost everything on my hd. Thanks for all the work you put in.

[manoynmonic]

It may be dead, but works great on 12.04. Thank you for your hard work. This is just what I was looking for.

BTW, the default settings have the notification taking about half of my screen (netbook). Changing this line made it just right:

 mmText = self.response['title'][:15] + ' ...'

[urwa2]

Hi,
i followed a tutorial to install fbuntu.. but when i run the last command python ~/fbuntu/fbuntu.py I get this error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/urwa/fbuntu/fbuntu.py", line 21, in <module>
import unifiedInboxChecker, legacyInboxChecker, graphNotificationChecker
File "/home/urwa/fbuntu/unifiedInboxChecker.py", line 98, in <module>
import indicate, pynotify
ImportError: No module named indicate

Any help would be appreciated.