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[Request for Comments] Distributing/releasing Queen BeeCon Widgets (deb-packages on extras)

I'm Requesting for comments about this solution to release/distribute/package Queen BeeCon Widgets inside debian-package.

Issues are described here:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Queen_BeeCon_W...ipts_please.3F

So far I have made first debian-package and pushed it to the extas-devel.
WARNING: It can ruin your working widgets (during installation, upgrading or removing). I have not installed it on my primary phone myself!
Package name is qbw-harmattan-date

With apt-get source qbw-harmattan-date you can get all files.
(http://maemo.org/packages/view/qbw-harmattan-date/)

I will describe how it is made so it can be analysed and potential failing parts could be spotted.
I'm using unmodified queen-beecon, but it can be tuned, if something can be then done more robust way.

I will use name HarmattanDate for this instructions. Name can't contain spaces or dashes.

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So...
You have good widget on your phone. Export it to the file (exported_widget.txt).
copy file "/var/lib/gconf/apps/osso/hildon-desktop/applets/XXX/%gconf.xml" (conf.xml) where XXX is something like queen-beecon.desktop-0. This file contains coordinates for widget.

on debian/rules:install

Code:

        mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/qbw-harmattan-date/var/lib/gconf/apps/osso/hildon-desktop/applets/queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate

        cp conf.xml $(CURDIR)/debian/qbw-harmattan-date/var/lib/gconf/apps/osso/hildon-desktop/applets/queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate/%gconf.xml



        mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/qbw-harmattan-date/opt/qbw-harmattan-date/

        cp exported_widget.txt $(CURDIR)/debian/qbw-harmattan-date/opt/qbw-harmattan-date/exported_widget



        #Optional: Add to another desktops also (tune also postinst/postrm)

        mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/qbw-harmattan-date/var/lib/gconf/apps/osso/hildon-desktop/applets/queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate2

        cp conf.xml $(CURDIR)/debian/qbw-harmattan-date/var/lib/gconf/apps/osso/hildon-desktop/applets/queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate2/%gconf.xml

debian/postinst

Code:

#!/bin/sh



#Add new widget data (from exported_widget) to the .queen_beecon

echo >>  /home/user/.queen_beecon

echo "[queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate]" >>  /home/user/.queen_beecon

tail -n +5 /opt/qbw-harmattan-date/exported_widget >> /home/user/.queen_beecon



#Add new entries to the 'header' of the .queen_beecon

#HarmattanDate is instanceTitle from exported_widget

#date ... is instanceCmd from exported_widget

sed -i  '/^c_titles/s|$|HarmattanDate;|' /home/user/.queen_beecon

sed -i  '/^c_commands/s|$|date +"%A, %-d/%m/%Y";|' /home/user/.queen_beecon



#Add icon to the desktop

echo "

[queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate]

X-Desktop-File=/usr/share/applications/hildon-home/queen-beecon.desktop

">> /home/user/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins







#for another desktops.

#change InstanceTitle with sed (add postfix '2')

echo >>  /home/user/.queen_beecon

echo "[queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate2]" >>  /home/user/.queen_beecon

tail -n +5 /opt/qbw-harmattan-date/exported_widget | sed 's/HarmattanDate/HarmattanDate2/' >> /home/user/.queen_beecon





sed -i  '/^c_titles/s|$|HarmattanDate2;|' /home/user/.queen_beecon

#no reason to add commnand again

#sed -i  '/^c_commands/s|$|date +"%A, %-d/%m/%Y";|' /home/user/.queen_beecon



echo "

[queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate2]

X-Desktop-File=/usr/share/applications/hildon-home/queen-beecon.desktop

">> /home/user/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins



#push this another widget to desktop2

gconftool-2 --set /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/applets/queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate2/view --type int 2









#these should be owned by user

chown user /home/user/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins

chown user /home/user/.queen_beecon



exit 0

debian/postrm

Code:

#!/bin/sh



#Do we need remove these?

#sed -i  '/^c_titles/s|$|HarmattanDate;|' /home/user/.queen_beecon

#sed -i  '/^c_commands/s|$|date +"%A, %-d/%m/%Y";|' /home/user/.queen_beecon



#Remove widget from the .config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins

#remove two subsequent rows 

#  [queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate]

#  X-Desktop-File=/usr/share/applications/hildon-home/queen-beecon.desktop

sed -i ':a;N;$!ba;s/\[queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate\]\nX-Desktop-File=\/usr\/share\/applications\/hildon-home\/queen-beecon.desktop//'  /home/user/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins



#Remove widget from the .queen_beecon

#We know the name of widget

#We think the last option for widget is empty updOnDBUSMatchRule=

#

#*Because every widget contains that 'updOnDBUSMatchRule=' and sed is greedy, it will eat every widget after what we are looking for

#  -> solution: use perl -pe with .*? so it stops on first 'updOnDBUSMatchRule='

#

#*It is multiline file and we want it works on 'single-line mode', but for some reason it won't work

#  -> solution, change every linebreak to the FOORAB (foobar might be in use). do the thing. change every FOORAB back to linebreak

cat /home/user/.queen_beecon | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/FOORAB/g' | perl -pe 's/\[queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate\].*?updOnDBUSMatchRule=//' | sed 's/FOORAB/\n/g' > /root/.queen_beecon_temporary_file

mv /root/.queen_beecon_temporary_file /home/user/.queen_beecon











#for another desktops too

sed -i ':a;N;$!ba;s/\[queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate2\]\nX-Desktop-File=\/usr\/share\/applications\/hildon-home\/queen-beecon.desktop//'  /home/user/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins



cat /home/user/.queen_beecon | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/FOORAB/g' | perl -pe 's/\[queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate2\].*?updOnDBUSMatchRule=//' | sed 's/FOORAB/\n/g' > /root/.queen_beecon_temporary_file

mv /root/.queen_beecon_temporary_file /home/user/.queen_beecon













#these should be owned by user

chown user /home/user/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins

chown user /home/user/.queen_beecon



exit 0

Package will contain some files, and postinstallation/postrm are used for adding/deleting widget (or widgets, if many desktops are used). Removing package (i.e. running postrm) should be possible (and safe) even widget (or some of them) is reconfigured by user, or even manually removed.

Re: [Request for Comments] Distributing/releasing Queen BeeCon Widgets (deb-packages on extras)

Great idea, there are a lot of useful widgets out there and maybe some of them are lost with the MegaUpload disaster.

Re: [Request for Comments] Distributing/releasing Queen BeeCon Widgets (deb-packages on extras)

Really good idea... We'll wait other widgets (sensible, geel etc)... :)

Re: [Request for Comments] Distributing/releasing Queen BeeCon Widgets (deb-packages on extras)

Download source package if you want try with your own widget. These are copies from there so more people can see and inspect them.

So export your widget and put it to the file exported_widget.txt, then check (or modify) instanceTitle on that file and use it to debian/rules : install
(e.g. exported_widget.txt:instanceTitle=HarmattanDate)

Code:

        mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/qbw-harmattan-date/var/lib/gconf/apps/osso/hildon-desktop/applets/queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate

        cp conf.xml $(CURDIR)/debian/qbw-harmattan-date/var/lib/gconf/apps/osso/hildon-desktop/applets/queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanDate/%gconf.xml



        mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/qbw-harmattan-date/opt/qbw-harmattan-date/

        cp exported_widget.txt $(CURDIR)/debian/qbw-harmattan-date/opt/qbw-harmattan-date/exported_widget

debian/postinst
(there are only one row to change: PACKAGE_NAME)

Code:

#!/bin/sh



PACKAGE_NAME=qbw-harmattan-date

###################################







NAME=`grep instanceTitle /opt/$PACKAGE_NAME/exported_widget  | tail -c +15`



#Add new widget data (from exported_widget) to the .queen_beecon

#be sure file exists

touch /home/user/.queen_beecon

#work with copy

cp  /home/user/.queen_beecon /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_rows

echo >>  /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_rows

echo "[queen-beecon.desktop-$NAME]" >>  /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_rows

tail -n +5 /opt/$PACKAGE_NAME/exported_widget >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_rows



mv /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_rows /home/user/.queen_beecon



#Add new entries to the 'header' of the .queen_beecon

#split:

grep c_titles /home/user/.queen_beecon > /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles

grep c_commands /home/user/.queen_beecon >  /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands

grep -v c_titles /home/user/.queen_beecon | grep -v c_commands > /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file



#fetch title/cmd

grep instanceTitle /opt/$PACKAGE_NAME/exported_widget  | tail -c +15 > /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_title

grep instanceCmd /opt/$PACKAGE_NAME/exported_widget  | tail -c +13 > /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_command



#merge (add needed ;) and remove linebreak 

cat /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles > /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles2

cat /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_title >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles2

echo ";" >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles2

sed -i ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n//g' /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles2



cat /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands > /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands2

cat /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_command >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands2

echo ";" >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands2

sed -i ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n//g' /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands2



#merge rows back

echo "

[config]

version=1" > /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2

cat /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles2 >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2

cat /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands2 >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2

echo "" >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2

tail -n +5 /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2



mv /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2 /home/user/.queen_beecon

rm /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles2 /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands2 /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_title /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_command /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file 









#Add icon to the desktop

echo "

[queen-beecon.desktop-$NAME]

X-Desktop-File=/usr/share/applications/hildon-home/queen-beecon.desktop

">> /home/user/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins





#these should be owned by user

chown user /home/user/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins

chown user /home/user/.queen_beecon



exit 0

debian/prerm
(there are also only one row to change: PACKAGE_NAME)

Code:

#!/bin/sh



PACKAGE_NAME=qbw-harmattan-date

###################################







NAME=`grep instanceTitle /opt/$PACKAGE_NAME/exported_widget  | tail -c +15`





#COMMAND_ENTRY='echo "`date +'"'"'<span font=\\"Nokia Pure Text 70\\" color=\\"#ffffff\\" >%I:%M%p</span>'"'"'`"'



#split .queen_beecon to three part

# c_titles

# c_commands

# every other (without c_titles and c_commands)

grep c_titles /home/user/.queen_beecon > /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles

grep c_commands /home/user/.queen_beecon >  /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands

grep -v c_titles /home/user/.queen_beecon | grep -v c_commands > /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file





#remove title and command from 'header'

sed -i 's|'"$NAME"';||' /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles



grep instanceCmd /opt/$PACKAGE_NAME/exported_widget  | tail -c +13 > /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_command

sed -i 's|\\|\\\\|g' /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_command

COMMAND=`cat /home/user/.queen_beecon_new_command`

sed -i 's|'"$COMMAND"';||' /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands





#merge rows back

echo "

[config]

version=1" > /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2

cat /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2

cat /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2

echo "" >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2

tail -n +5 /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file >> /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2







#Remove widget from the .config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins

#remove two subsequent rows 

#  [queen-beecon.desktop-HarmattanClock]

#  X-Desktop-File=/usr/share/applications/hildon-home/queen-beecon.desktop

sed -i ':a;N;$!ba;s|\[queen-beecon.desktop-'"$NAME"'\]\nX-Desktop-File=/usr/share/applications/hildon-home/queen-beecon.desktop||'  /home/user/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins





#Remove widget from the .queen_beecon

#We know the name of widget

#We guess the last option for widget is empty updOnDBUSMatchRule=

#

#*Because every widget contains that 'updOnDBUSMatchRule=' and sed is greedy, it will eat every widget after what we are looking for

#  -> solution: use perl -pe with .*? so it stops on first 'updOnDBUSMatchRule='

#

#*It is multiline file and we want it works on 'single-line mode', but for some reason it won't work

#  -> solution, change every linebreak to the FOORAB (foobar might be in use). do the thing. change every FOORAB back to linebreak

cat /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2 | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/FOORAB/g' | perl -pe 's/\[queen-beecon.desktop-'"$NAME"'\].*?updOnDBUSMatchRule=//' | sed 's/FOORAB/\n/g' > /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file



#and now place it on real name

mv /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file /home/user/.queen_beecon







#remove temp-files

rm /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_titles

rm /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_commands

rm /home/user/.queen_beecon_temporary_file2







#these should be owned by user

chown user /home/user/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins

chown user /home/user/.queen_beecon



exit 0

Re: [Request for Comments] Distributing/releasing Queen BeeCon Widgets (deb-packages on extras)

Just thumbs up - I think it's great idea, their place is in repositories.

/Estel

Re: [Request for Comments] Distributing/releasing Queen BeeCon Widgets (deb-packages on extras)

Many thanks for widget qbw-harmattan-clock!:) A question: How it is possible to change a mode of display of time? I want that instead of 10:30PM was displayed as 22:30AM. Whether It is possible instead of symbols PM or AM to display second??? I am sorry for bad English, thanks for the answer!