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py3status v3.0

Oh boy, this new version is so amazing in terms of improvements and contributions that it's hard to sum it up !

Before going into more explanations I want to dedicate this release to tobes whose contributions, hard work and patience have permitted this ambitious 3.0 : THANK YOU !

This is the graph of contributed commits since 2.9 just so you realise how much this version is thanks to him: 2016-06-25-165245_1289x248_scrotI can't continue on without also thanking Horgix who started this madness by splitting the code base into modular files and pydsigner for his everlasting contributions and code reviews !

The git stat since 2.9 also speaks for itself:

73 files changed, 7600 insertions(+), 3406 deletions(-)

So what's new ?

  • the monolithic code base have been split into modules responsible for the given tasks py3status performs
  • major improvements on modules output orchestration and execution resulting in considerable CPU consumption reduction and i3bar responsiveness
  • refactoring of user notifications with added dbus support and rate limiting
  • improved modules error reporting
  • py3status can now survive an i3status crash and will try to respawn it
  • a new 'container' module output type gives the ability to group modules together
  • refactoring of the time and tztime modules support brings the support of all the time macros (%d, %Z etc)
  • support for stopping py3status and its modules when i3bar hide mode is used
  • refactoring of general, contribution and most noticeably modules documentation
  • more details on the rest of the changelog

Modules

Along with a cool list of improvements on the existing modules, these are the new modules:

  • new group module to cycle display of several modules (check it out, it's insanely handy !)
  • new fedora_updates module to check for your Fedora packages updates
  • new github module to check a github repository and notifications
  • new graphite module to check metrics from graphite
  • new insync module to check your current insync status
  • new timer module to have a simple countdown displayed
  • new twitch_streaming module to check is a Twitch Streamer is online
  • new vpn_status module to check your VPN status
  • new xrandr_rotate module to rotate your screens
  • new yandexdisk_status module to display Yandex.Disk status

Contributors

And of course thank you to all the others who made this version possible !

  • @egeskow
  • Alex Caswell
  • Johannes Karoff
  • Joshua Pratt
  • Maxim Baz
  • Nathan Smith
  • Themistokle Benetatos
  • Vladimir Potapev
  • Yongming Lai