bring back the fortune popups?

johnraff · 2017-05-08 06:38:40

This topic came up today: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=3673
I had been wondering if the time was ripe to build ohnonot's fortune collection into an installable .deb package, and enable it from the default openbox/autostart in bunsen-configs. Maybe now, or maybe for BL Helium?

It would probably not be that hard, but would most BL users be likely to welcome it?

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damo · 2017-05-08 12:35:02

^^ And we could activate the placeholder line in autostart

## bl-fortune - have the system come up with a little adage (not yet enabled)
#(sleep 120; bl-fortune) &

brontosaurusrex · 2017-05-08 12:46:30

Does this stay up until closed? If not, is there a "words per minute" calculation somewhere?

btw: Also interesting in conky

${execi 30 fortune}

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dolly · 2017-05-08 12:53:15

^^With the damo solution above, yes.

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brontosaurusrex · 2017-05-08 13:19:57

A little demo of what I mean. @Dolly, yes to what?

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dolly · 2017-05-08 13:35:51

^So it will be easy to enable/disable this feature.

Sector11 · 2017-05-08 15:27:35

YUp, I agree with damo & dolly

nice feature.

lowrider · 2017-05-08 16:08:14

+1 damo, just like it was in #!
easy enough to enable/disable that way
maybe linked to a pic of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew (instead of Statler/Waldorf)?

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hhh · 2017-05-08 19:31:23

Beaker. Beaker tells your fortune.

geekosupremo · 2017-05-08 19:34:25

hhh wrote:

Beaker. Beaker tells your fortune.

They'd all be really easy to write to. "Mee mee meeeee memememe meeee mmmee"

hhh · 2017-05-08 19:43:12

Lol! @damo said it first, I just discovered...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 724#p50724

Be assured that there is very little disagreement in the BL team, at all. We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. !--|

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damo · 2017-05-08 20:09:52

Icon:

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hhh · 2017-05-08 20:15:39

Oops, phone post. Fixed.

hhh · 2017-05-08 20:21:19

@damo, a classic!

lowrider · 2017-05-08 21:21:16

I still prefer Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
But yes, a .deb in the BL repo would be nice.

lowrider · 2017-05-08 21:51:54

johnraff wrote:

I had been wondering if the time was ripe to build ohnonot's fortune collection into an installable .deb package...

When scrolling through cbbl one thing comes to my mind. Things (speak users/people) we lost in the fire

Sector11 · 2017-05-08 22:31:00

^ Yea, some beings back memories and sadness.

johnraff · 2017-05-09 00:52:46

lowrider wrote:

When scrolling through cbbl one thing comes to my mind. Things (speak users/people) we lost in the fire.

...sigh... how true. Of course, people move on, so some of that is inevitable. Even so...

johnraff · 2017-05-09 01:04:52

brontosaurusrex wrote:

Does this stay up until closed? If not, is there a "words per minute" calculation somewhere?

That's a very interesting idea. #! used a fixed time delay (maybe the notify-send default) but it might be better to hack in some kind of allowance for the quote length.

But the relationship is complex.
Perhaps a compromise would be:
display_time = fixed_time_to_notice_popup + ( words x X ) + ( characters x Y )
where X and Y are arbitary fudge factors. The above link suggests the word count would be more important, making X bigger, but still, long words will need a bit more time, so add a bit for the character count with Y.

johnraff · 2017-05-09 01:06:27

hhh wrote:

Beaker. Beaker tells your fortune.

I'd love to have Beaker do this job. Will we be OK with copyright though, putting such an icon in the package?

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