Sebastian

A replacement for Conky.

Development demo

From the sample config in sample/api-demo.rb:

Run it with:

$ git clone git://github.com/passcod/sebastian.git
$ cd sebastian
$ bundle
$ ruby bin.rb sample/api-demo.rb

What?

Conky is the greatest system monitor display panel thingie in the entire universe... except when it's not. After several years of usage, I'm frustrated by:

• Syntax quirks
• Behaviour quirks
• Transparency weirdness
• Sometimes "colour" is spelled "color" depending on the config option
• I'm not sure if it's hardware-accelerated but I don't think so
• Windows/Mac/Wayland support eeeh
• The lack of an actual alternative (everything else reminds me of Vista widgets and/or pre-1999 graphics)
• Conditionals
• Can I haz asynchronous things
• Moar fonts!
• Better support for adventurous ideas (like, pie charts are the ultimate in conky awesomeness. Pie charts.)
• Lua

Uhhh

Sebastian will (eventually) have:

• Solutions to all of the above:
  • Consistent syntax/grammar
  • OpenGL
  • Windows/Mac/Wayland/X11
  • Full expressive power (conditionals, loops, recursion...)
  • Async magic rainbows
  • Ruby!
• An API
• Support for gems (with Bundler)
• Interactivity (being able to click things)
• Conkyrc converter (maybe!)
• Access to the underlying (raw) graphics layer
• Conky-style default widgets
• Better theming?

W-When

As soon as I get round to it.

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Hello! My name is Félix Saparelli. Feel free to give me a yell and/or money if you want progress on this and can't code or whatever. *waves*