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Description:

Facebook plasmoid is a simply webview showing the iPhone version of Facebook.

It's written in Python by following the excellent tutorial on techbase: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/Python/GettingStarted

INSTALL:
plasmapkg -i facebook.zip

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zunami
10 years ago

first the tool works
opensuse 11.2

and why cannot edit the size of this tool. i will make it bigger

diederick76
10 years ago

Nice and useful plasmoid. It works fine, except that the order the messages appear in seems to be random. I'd like to get the most recent one at the top. Is that possible?

nferenc
10 years ago

This is only a simply webview showing the iPhone version of Facebook. So please report a bug to facebook devs :)

diederick76
10 years ago

Can you tell me which application that is? Did you pull it from svn?

docxcz
10 years ago

Hello, this is very good plasmoid. But in my opinion font and overall size is too big. It is option to reduce it?

Thanks

Zabu
10 years ago

it works great on my kubuntu - till I reboot, then it's only a blank widget.

richtclick --> reload don't work either.
:-(

Zabu
10 years ago

Wow, thank you

Works perfectly !!

deichschuh
10 years ago

This is because your network connection propably takes some time after rebooting, you can fix this by adding a few lines to the script.

The lines are:

import os

ping = 'ping -c 2 google.com'
pause = 'sleep 2'

def check_network():
if os.system(ping) == 0:
pass
else:
os.system(pause)
check_network()

check_network()

you can add this after:

from PyKDE4.kdecore import KUrl

in contents -> code -> main.py

Maybe nferenc can patch the plasmoid to support this.

deichschuh
10 years ago

This is because your network connection propably takes some time after rebooting, you can fix this by adding a few lines to the script.

The lines are:

import os

ping = 'ping -c 2 google.com'
pause = 'sleep 2'

def check_network():
if os.system(ping) == 0:
pass
else:
os.system(pause)
check_network()

check_network()

you can add this after:

from PyKDE4.kdecore import KUrl

in contents -> code -> main.py

Maybe nferenc can patch the plasmoid to support this.

chareos
10 years ago

It works with these modifications

BUT

this way the entire KDE sits and wait for network !

This is very noticeable on a wifi based system, and literally kills any start-up time improvement distros made in the last years.

I suppose that os.system pause is way too wide. The best thing would be to put in a loop the facebook plasmoid, not the entire plasma/KDE.

Is there a better way ?

JackSkellington
10 years ago

Hey, I love this plasmoid :o)

There is only one problem. My WLAN needs some moments to get connected to the internet and so the facebook-plasmoid stays empty. Even 'reload' doenst't work.
So I alway have to remove and re-add it, which is quite uncomfortable.
Has anybody an idea? :o)

tuxbassen
10 years ago

hello

i might be blind, but i cant seem to find the spot to add a comment on a friend status.

i can find the spot in the 'mobile site' or 'full site' but not in the standard site.

So if it not possible, will it be?

Malix82
10 years ago

Any chances for autorefresh?

gillespie
10 years ago

Try this patch
http://pastebin.com/m6b2c3191. It could really do with some kind of configuration for the timeout but I was just a quick hack job

miguelpino
10 years ago

Hi there...
I was trying to put this on my KDE 4.3 and there was an error

I tryed to install by the "add widgets" button on the upper right corner and it says "Cannot read the script"

then I tried to instal via terminal as u said after downloading from here and and i just get "facebook plasmoid installation failure"

did I miss something? what can I do?

im from Chile... sorry about my bad english.

nferenc
10 years ago

Rename it to facebook.zip
Then install with command: plasmapkg -i facebook.zip

Fenix-TX
10 years ago

I've tried this but when i added the widget i have this error:

This object could not be created for the following reason:

Script initialization failed

Fenix-TX
10 years ago

Ok...restarting KDE solve the problem. Now works.

deichschuh
10 years ago

Hi nferenc,

I just did 3 simple Plasmoids based on your Facebook-Plasmoid.

They Actually do the same as yours, but they acces the mobile Versions of German SchuelerVZ, StudiVZ and MeinVZ.

If you have any problems with this please let me know.

Thanks for your work and your great Plasmoid

deichschuh
10 years ago

They can be found here:

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=109897

echoes
11 years ago

this works fine with kde 4.3.61 (4.4 svn)/Qt 4.5.2. there are a few minor rendering issues but i assume that is due to webkit or whatever rendering engine this script uses.

could you please add the ability to tab from the email/phone field to the password field?

jammen33
11 years ago

can you update it to work with kde4.3?

2ndsicness
11 years ago

I've installed the Plasmoid correctly, but I'm simply unable to log in. I'm using Arch Linux.

momocore
11 years ago

There was a problem with Qt-webkit 4.5.1 and cookie handling that disallowed this app to login to facebook. The same problems experienced with Arora browser or the plasmoid web browser. Upgrading Qt-webkit to 4.5.2 should fix it.

vejha
11 years ago

I have same problem.

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