Chemical MIME types hit Debian

Daniel Leidert reported that the chemical-mime-data deb package has hit Debian. This package makes the chemical MIME types known to desktop environments like Gnome and KDE. Daniel, cheers!

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KDE/Ruby CMake magic?

I have commited my what's this about?? keyword cloud thingy to SVN into trunk/playground/utils/whatsthisabout. today. I am trying to use CMake as a build tool, but ran into a number of problems, one being the lack of a good example. After asking around on #kde-ruby it turned out that there is no known example.

OK, no problem. I'm a hacker, right? Jerome Pansanel pointed me to the KDE cmake modules. FindRUBY.cmake was there, so that's one step. Something that was missing was a module to detect the Korundum KDE/Ruby bindings, so I added FindKorundum.cmake. Since I am not a CMake experienced hacker, things might be off; comments most welcome!

However, when I add a find_package(KDE3), I get the error:

CMake Error: KDE3_DIR is not set.  It must be set to the directory containing KDE3Config.cmake in order to use KDE3.

And I have no idea on how to address that.

Additionally, I have struggle with the FindRUBY.cmake. I would expect ${RUBY_LIBRARY} to point to the directory where Ruby libraries are installed. But it points to /usr/lib, which is returned by puts Config::CONFIG["libdir"]. Tips most welcome here too.

Technorati tags: KDE Ruby Korundum CMake

KDE::HTMLPart GUI for tagging cloud

Everyone seems to blog about Ruby. Well, now do I too. Today I wrote three Ruby scripts to that allow me to tag my PDFs, just like I do with webpages using my del.icio.us account, something I wanted to do for some time already. In KDE4 keyword support mockups I suggested to do this with xattr, so I did. This is using a ruby xattr wrapper.

thisisabout

The first script allows adding a keyword. It is a simple script and allows adding one keyword per call. Syntax: thisisabout [tag] [file]. The code:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# Copyright (C) 2006 Egon Willighagen
# License: GPL

require 'xattr'

tag = ARGV[0]
file = ARGV[1]

if (file == nil)
  p "syntax: thisisabout [TAG] [FILE]"
  exit
else
  description = File.get_attr(file, "keywords")
  if (description != nil)
    words = description.split
    if (words.include?(tag))
      p file + " already has the tag " + tag
    else
      description = description + " " + tag
    end
  else
    description = tag
  end
  File.set_attr(file, "keywords", description)
end

thisisnotabout

Removing a tag is done with a similar script:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# Copyright (C) 2006 Egon Willighagen
# License: GPL

require 'xattr'

tag = ARGV[0]
file = ARGV[1]

if (file == nil)
  p "syntax: thisisnotabout [TAG] [FILE]"
  exit
else
  description = File.get_attr(file, "keywords")
  newdescription = ""
  if (description != nil)
    words = description.split
    words.each do |word|
      if (word == tag)
        # skip word
      else
        if (newdescription.length > 0)
          newdescription = newdescription + " "
        end
        newdescription = newdescription + word
      end
    end
  else
    description = tag
  end
  File.set_attr(file, "keywords", newdescription)
end

whatsthisabout

The third script is where KDE comes in. It has a --nogui option if you don't want to GUI too show up. The code:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# Copyright (C) 2006 Egon Willighagen
# License: GPL

require 'getoptlong'
require 'rdoc/usage'
require 'Korundum'
require '/home/egonw/bin/whatsthisabout'

class MainWindow < KDE::MainWindow

    def initialize( name, counts )
        super(nil, name)
        setCaption("What's This About??")

        vbox = Qt::VBox.new( self )
        @browser = KDE::HTMLPart.new( vbox )

        setCentralWidget(vbox)

        @browser.begin()
        counts.each {|key, value|
          fontSize = (6*value)/2
          @browser.write("");
          @browser.write( key )
          @browser.write(" ");
        }
        @browser.end()
    end

end

opts = GetoptLong.new(
  [ '--nogui', '-n', GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ],
  [ '--help', '-h', GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ]
)

startPath = nil
gui = "yes"
opts.each do |opt, arg|
  case opt
    when '--help'
      RDoc::usage
    when '--nogui'
      gui = "no"
  end
end

if ARGV.length == 1
  startPath = ARGV[0]
elsif ARGV.length == 0
  startPath = '.'
else
  RDoc::usage
  exit 0
end

wat = WhatsThisAbout.new
counts = wat.getKeywords(startPath)

if (gui == "yes")
  about = KDE::AboutData.new("whatsthisabout", "What's This About??", "0.1")
  KDE::CmdLineArgs.init(about)

  a = KDE::Application.new()

  window = MainWindow.new( "What's This About??", counts )
  window.resize( 600, 300 )

  a.mainWidget = window
  window.show

  a.exec
else
  counts.each do |bla, bla2|
    puts bla + " " + bla2.to_s
  end
end

The obligatory screenshot:


In due time I will put this in KDE SVN, but I need to make a reasonable cmake script yet. Anyone who can tell me how I can have cmake check wether the required Ruby libraries are installed? There are other things to do too:

1. make a backup/restore facility
   
2. use a database instead of recursively finding tags
   

Because I have my PDFs in a SVN repository and share them between some work places, the first todo would mean I could share my tags too. The second would just mean a serious speedup.

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KryoMol and KOpenBabel

I have not been posting here as much lately as I had hoped to, but have been quite busy with other things. So no Strigi plugin for Bioclipse yet (Strigi is still gaining momentum), and no new release of kfile_chemical.

However, there is progress on the KDE desktop other than the evolution of Kalzium: Armando Navarro Vázquez released a new version of KryoMol and Jerome Pansanel setup a SourceForge project for a KDE GUI to OpenBabel.

Technorati tags: KDE chemistry OpenBabel kfile_chemical KryoMol Strigi