watsonctl.py an interactive extension to watson.py

[Dale-Muccignat]

I'm hoping this will serve as an alternative to watson.py. I started using watson.py and felt like it'd be great to have some control over what project is being tracked rather than 'just' restarting the last tracked project.

So I went about changing the code from watson.py to include a feature that when the mouse wheel is used, the module cycles between currently used projects within watson. I have limited python experience as I mainly use Julialang for research so I'm reaching the end of the effort I can put into this for now. I'd love for some pointers and I can come back to improve this.

I'm not really looking to merge this right away, I think it's usable as is but I would love for it to be improved.

Main features:

• Mouse scroll to select from existing projects

Current drawbacks:

• No way of starting a new tracked project. I can't wrap my head around a way to easily start a new project with a custom name from the module.
  • I now have an initial input method through the easygui package, it's ugly however.
• No fancy icons, I need to read more of the docs for bumblebee to add in some fancy icons to indicate if the project is being tracked or not currently
• Should probably default to the last used project on start-up instead of asking to "select project"
  • now defaults to the first project watson displays in watson projects
• Does not update project list properlly when a new project is initiated manually
  • fixed
• Scroll only cycles one way
  • fixed

Wishlist:

• right-click to display the aggrigate total times for each project
• change colour of the module when time is being tracked

[tobi-wan-kenobi]

Thank you very much!

Regarding the new project start: Tricky, probably needs a bumblebee-status core extension that shows a prompt (Tk? Gtk? Qt? Just a term?) I think there are x tools to show a prompt and read the result, maybe that is a good starting point.

The "use last project": Good idea, would probably mean introducing the concept of "state" to bumblebee, which IMHO sounds very useful :)

Unfortunately, I have very limited time to work on bumblebee right now (real life interfering), and I do not use watson myself, but I will try to think about those two things and come up with ideas or prototypes.

Thank you!

[Dale-Muccignat]

Text prompt: Yeah I'm not too sure myself, I'll have a think over time for some ideas around inputting text. I'm not sure if it'd have any applications for other modules but could be a cool feature if it's easy enough to do.

State: Oh I hadn't thought about it like that, but it sounds like another toy that 'could' be useful. I was more imagining that I could probably figure out which was the last used project from watson itself. Shouldn't be tooo hard.

I'm the same with time, I'm trying to get a bunch of work done (hence seeking out some time tracking tools.... and then spending a whole day trying to tailor it to my wants... very productive!). I'll most likely just see if I stick with using it and find it useful, then when I have some spare time I'll try and come up with ideas.

Thanks for chiming in!

[Dale-Muccignat]

I've added a simple (but ugly) way of entering text. On right-click, it opens up a gui from the python package "easygui".

I don't particularly like that it's a whole new window but it's a solution for now. Having a more general solution would probably be preferred.

[tobi-wan-kenobi]

Very cool!

Can you please drop me a line when you think it is ready for merging?