ulauncher / ulauncher-timer

Timer Extension

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ulauncher-timer's Issues

Parser fails to recognize '12p'

System details

• OS: Ubuntu 21.10
• Desktop: Ubuntu on Xorg
• Version (ulauncher-timer): 4262fc2 (2020-11-3)

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Steps to reproduce

1. Invoke Ulauncher Timer extension
2. Enter time 12p

Observe

Action shows "Incorrect request".

Expected

Action shows "Set timer for 12p".

Support 24h clock

Hi, when trying to use the timer using eg. ti 18:50 Hello it states that it is an incorrect request. Only am/pm seems to be supported.

Time formatting: why harcoded 12h-format ?

Hi. First of all thanks for this little piece of software; I'm using it with joy :)

One minor thing: I noticed that time format is 12h-format. Is there any reason for that ? I'm a French user, and here we're used to read "14:00" for 2PM.

Changing the date representation in Timer.description() from '%-I:%M %p' to '%-H:%M %p' solves the problem for me.

I think we Timer should refer to system for time format (en_US.UTF-8 will result is 12-hour format, and fr_FR.UTF-8 in 24h-format)

What do you think about it ?

Thanks

crash on Pop!_OS 21.10 with ulauncher v5.14.2

The crash happens on installation:

Message: Extension ID: com.github.ulauncher.ulauncher-emoji
Error Name: UnhandledError
Type: ExtensionIsRunningError

Stacktrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ulauncher/ui/windows/PreferencesUlauncherDialog.py", line 202, in on_scheme_callback
    resp = rt.dispatch(self, scheme_request.get_uri())
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ulauncher/utils/Router.py", line 49, in dispatch
    return callback(context, url_params)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ulauncher/ui/windows/PreferencesUlauncherDialog.py", line 446, in prefs_extension_add
    ExtensionRunner.get_instance().run(ext_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ulauncher/api/server/ExtensionRunner.py", line 68, in run
    raise ExtensionIsRunningError('Extension ID: %s' % extension_id)
ulauncher.api.server.ExtensionRunner.ExtensionIsRunningError: Extension ID: com.github.ulauncher.ulauncher-emoji

extensions crushed

All extensions have a crushed label before their name.
I noticed today but they used to work before.
I uninstalled all and reinstalled this:
https://github.com/ulauncher/ulauncher-timer
it didn't solve the problem.

I run manjaro.

Resume capabilities

It will be a nice addition to have the ability of resuming timers in case of a system/user-session restart.
Its easy to save the information in form of timestamps in a json file for incompleted timers, which could also be used to show up past timers which got interrupted and expired before session resume.

can we log somewhere all timer that were run?

in order to allow tracking of time spent, I would like to be able to get a log of the timers (output to a file somewhere)?
Do this exist already?

When clicking on a notification, it doesn't call the on_notification_close method

Timer doesn't fire

Hi, whenever I set a timer, the event doesn't actually fire.

System Info:
Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Python v2.7.12

I can make a notification fire using the following code (cobbled together) which suggests my system has all the required modules/functionality, but it won't fire using the Ulauncher extension.

I do note that the threading.Timer event doesn't fire if the script ends before the timeout (hence the sleep(6) in my example), I'm not a Python dev so can't really figure out any more.

import os
import subprocess
import gi
import time

gi.require_version('Notify', '0.7')

from gi.repository import Notify
from threading import Timer

def show_notification(text):
	print "Notification fired" + text
	Notify.init("TimerExtension")
	Notify.Notification.new("Timer", text).show()
	subprocess.call(("paplay", "/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga"))

def start_timer(delay, text):
	timer = Timer(delay, lambda:show_notification(text))
	timer.setDaemon(True)
	timer.start()

print "starting timer"
start_timer(5.0, "test")
time.sleep(6) #without this, the timer doesn't fire
print "timer should have completed by now"

Unexpected API error. HTTPError:

Periodically alerts not working in desktop environments where notifications can auto-close

Hi

I've noticed that repeating alerts do not work in my desktop environment (based on Xfce4). I jumped onto the code and got the trick: notifications are auto-closing after a delay (10 seconds in my case).

This makes Timer.on_close() be triggered after notification timeout and disable the timer.

I'll propose a PR to fix this

Last update crashes

With the last updated build, it crashes with the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ulauncher/ui/windows/UlauncherWindow.py", line 161, in on_input_changed
ModeHandler.get_instance().on_query_change(self.app.query)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ulauncher/modes/ModeHandler.py", line 39, in on_query_change
results = self.search(query)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ulauncher/modes/ModeHandler.py", line 64, in search
sorted_ = sorted(searchables, key=lambda i: i.search_score(query), reverse=True)[:limit]
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ulauncher/modes/ModeHandler.py", line 64, in
sorted_ = sorted(searchables, key=lambda i: i.search_score(query), reverse=True)[:limit]
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ulauncher/api/result.py", line 105, in search_score
return max(get_score(query, field) * weight for field, weight in self.get_searchable_fields() if field)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ulauncher/modes/apps/AppResult.py", line 62, in get_searchable_fields
frequency_weight = 1 - (index / count * 0.1) + 0.05
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

"Time is up!" set up notification creates confusion

Hi! Great extension!

Issue

With the default timer message — "Time is up!" — the notification that tells me the timer has been set looks like this:

Which doesn't read much differently from the notification when the alarm fires:

So, if I don't immediately close the notification, it stays in the notifications panel and, at a quick glance, the text "Time is up!" with the text "Just now" makes it seem like the timer has just fired.

Suggestion

Change the text of this first notification that tells me the timer has been set up, to simply:
"Timer set at 11:30 am."

Port extension to Ulauncher 5

Ulauncher 5 (of which development builds are already available) will ship the Python 3 version only. As a result, all extensions have to be ported to Python 3, and also the new Ulauncher Extension API v2.

See more details here

fails to read partial time with semicolon

returns incorrect request if you write smthing like 2:45h