Daniel G. Taylor
November 8th, 2007, 08:28 PM
Hey,
I've been using Gourmet recipe Manager (http://grecipe-manager.sf.net) for a while now and was somewhat unhappy with it. My main complaint is that it is complicated and has many features that I just don't need. Before anyone gets the wrong idea - I really like the program and am grateful to the developers, but I've been thinking about what I would want in a recipe management program lately and decided to try and hack something together.
I spent the last couple weeks working on my own recipe management program for GNOME in the bit of free time that I have, and now have it in a state where I would like to get some feedback from other developers and users. I am asking for people to test the program and provide feedback - what do you like, what don't you like, what doesn't work?
Before we get to that, here are some of the features:
Simple, user friendly interface
Powerful searching
Recipe printing
Recipe card view themes
Sharing recipes over the network
Viewing other's shared recipes
There is a preview release available at http://www.recipemanager.org/files/recipemanager-20071108.tar.bz2 that contains a clean checkout from my svn server today. A README file is included that explains how to run it and such, but here's a quick rundown:
sudo apt-get install python-avahi
wget http://www.recipemanager.org/files/recipemanager-20071108.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf recipemanager-20071108.tar.bz2
cd recipemanager-20071108
./recipemanager
The program requires python with gtk, gnome, dbus, and avahi bindings, so for Ubuntu users this means you must install python-avahi before you can run it, everything else is already there! I'm not sure about other distributions.
This is my first time ever making GTK widgets, making my own GTKCellRenderer, using DBUS and Avahi, and my first time using XMLRPC, which I use for the recipe sharing. I have no idea if I did everything right and I'm sure there are plenty of bugs.
If anybody that is a user of Gourmet or anyone interested in testing this could download and test the program I would be grateful. Please leave feedback in this thread. Any developers that are interested in helping (there is still quite a bit to do) should let me know, I'm open to anything and am in the process of setting up public svn access.
The TODO file contains some known bugs and features yet to be implemented, so please consult it before posting replies here. Also, I know that the menu items for copy/paste don't do anything, and I know you can view your own shared recipes (this is on purpose to let others test the networking code)
I've been using Gourmet recipe Manager (http://grecipe-manager.sf.net) for a while now and was somewhat unhappy with it. My main complaint is that it is complicated and has many features that I just don't need. Before anyone gets the wrong idea - I really like the program and am grateful to the developers, but I've been thinking about what I would want in a recipe management program lately and decided to try and hack something together.
I spent the last couple weeks working on my own recipe management program for GNOME in the bit of free time that I have, and now have it in a state where I would like to get some feedback from other developers and users. I am asking for people to test the program and provide feedback - what do you like, what don't you like, what doesn't work?
Before we get to that, here are some of the features:
Simple, user friendly interface
Powerful searching
Recipe printing
Recipe card view themes
Sharing recipes over the network
Viewing other's shared recipes
There is a preview release available at http://www.recipemanager.org/files/recipemanager-20071108.tar.bz2 that contains a clean checkout from my svn server today. A README file is included that explains how to run it and such, but here's a quick rundown:
sudo apt-get install python-avahi
wget http://www.recipemanager.org/files/recipemanager-20071108.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf recipemanager-20071108.tar.bz2
cd recipemanager-20071108
./recipemanager
The program requires python with gtk, gnome, dbus, and avahi bindings, so for Ubuntu users this means you must install python-avahi before you can run it, everything else is already there! I'm not sure about other distributions.
This is my first time ever making GTK widgets, making my own GTKCellRenderer, using DBUS and Avahi, and my first time using XMLRPC, which I use for the recipe sharing. I have no idea if I did everything right and I'm sure there are plenty of bugs.
If anybody that is a user of Gourmet or anyone interested in testing this could download and test the program I would be grateful. Please leave feedback in this thread. Any developers that are interested in helping (there is still quite a bit to do) should let me know, I'm open to anything and am in the process of setting up public svn access.
The TODO file contains some known bugs and features yet to be implemented, so please consult it before posting replies here. Also, I know that the menu items for copy/paste don't do anything, and I know you can view your own shared recipes (this is on purpose to let others test the networking code)