pyRad

A wheel type command interface for KDE 4, heavily inspired by Kommando. It's designed to appear below your mouse pointer at a gesture or keystroke.

installation:

- easy_install pyRadKDE

setup:

- call pyrad.py. You can now use Alt-F6 or Meta-F6 to show the wheel.
- Add "/usr/bin/pyrad.py" as script to your autostart (systemsettings->advanced->autostart)
- Add the mouse gesture to call D-Bus: Program: org.kde.pyRad ; Object: /MainApplication ; Function: newInstance

- Alternately set the gesture to call the command "dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.pyRad /MainApplication org.kde.KUniqueApplication.newInstance"

- customize the menu by editing the file "~/.pyradrc" or right-clicking items.


usage:

- Just use your gesture to call up the command wheel when you want to call one of your included programs.

- Left-click the program to start it. You can also press the key shown in the programs tooltip for the same effect.
- Right-click an item to edit it. Middle-click an item to add a new one after it (clockwise).
- Make folders by clicking on folder inside the edit dialog.
Actions are simply the commands you'd use on the commandline (no shell scripting though).

- call "pyrad.py --quit" to shutdown the process in the background. "pyrad.py --help" shows the usage. "pyrad.py --daemon" starts pyRad without showing the GUI.


You can find additional Information on http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyRadKDE/ and http://draketo.de/light/english/pyrad

pyRad 0.4.4

- Icon Editor: show a preview of the icon.
- Icon Editor: Added a delete and a folder.
- Register Alt-F6 and Meta-F6 als global shortcuts.
- FIX: Crash at logout ⇒ Added shutdown handling.

pyRad 0.4.3

- FIX: wrong console icon in default config.
- FIX: If the tooltip was too long, it wasn’t shown at all. Now only the first 100 chars are shown
- Folders in brackets

pyRad 0.4.2

- Improved the --help output.
- Improved the tooltips for folders.

pyRad 0.4

- Added keyboard shortcuts for all items and hiding via the escape key.

pyRad 0.3.3

- FIX: KUniqueApplication: TypeError: keyword arguments are not supported

pyRad 0.3.2

- Added --daemon argument to start pyRad without showing the wheel.

pyRad 0.3.1

- FIX: Upper level changes weren't saved.

pyRad 0.3

- Largescale rewrite in the battle for startup performance. It's now a KUniqueApplication and after the first run, subsequent runs only call the already running (but hidden) instance. Still the imports take the major share of the startup time.
- New command scheme: Right-click always edits the item, middle click adds a new item after the clicked one.
- Items are arranged clockwise.
- FIX: Changes in the layout were only effective after the next start. Now changes take effect immediately.

pyRad 0.2

- Right-click on an item opens an edit dialog.
- Changes are saved directly to the .pyradrc

pyRad 0.1.1

- moved the Rad class into a seperate file (rad.py) - same performance but cleaner.
- added a version header to the .pyradrc file, so it will be possible to update it transparently when changes should be necessary.

pyRad 0.1

- Initial version.