Ported Gnome extension: Glasa => Cinn'r eyes

[Drugwash]

Cinn'r eyes (read sinner eyes) is a Cinnamon applet. Useless at first but maybe funny. At least for somebody.
It's the old Eyes extension in Gnome, the eyeballs that seem to follow the mouse pointer.
Originally Glasa by Markus Pawellek AKA lyrahgames. License is GPL v3.

In recent versions it can display Expo or Overview on click/Ctrl+click, and can also switch workspaces on Ctrl+mouse wheel scroll.
More details (if needed) on my blog here.

Default appearance:

Spooky mode:

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Download:

cinn-r-eyes@drugwash 0.3.0.2.zip

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All previous versions can be found on my blog (link above).
Cinn'r eyes can now be found at GitHub too.

[xenopeek]

Are they always that big or do they scale to the panel height and you have set it very high?

[Drugwash]

A few settings are customizable. Icon/image size is one of them. The default setting follows the panel icon size, while the custom setting can be set from 12px to 48px height.
The screenshot was taken with a custom setting of 32px.

By the way, the size can be adjusted on-the-fly by mouse scrolling over the image, but it won't obey to the limits set in the JSON file because I didn't find a way to read the values (settings.get_property(option, property) doesn't work). As such it can go very low or very high.

[xenopeek]

Nice, that's very customizable.

[Drugwash]

Thanks. I always try to remember we are not all the same - we have different tastes, different visions, different hardware/software etc, and we should all be given the opportunity to customize whatever can be customized in order to suit our needs and/or desires.
That said, most of the settings here don't make too much of a difference unless the image size varies substantially.
Also the ranges were chosen somehow arbitrarily, but I believe it's better like this than with fixed values as it originally was. There may still be room for improvement though.

Any idea how to programmatically read the min/max values from a spinbutton's settings? The get_property() function does work in Python but not in JS. I'd hate to use hardcoded values, that's bad programming.

[xenopeek]

I'm not up with Cinnamon applets coding or JavaScript so I don't know but maybe somebody else.

[Drugwash]

Hopefully. But it's not that big of a deal anyway. An unusual size should make people stop pushing and maybe upon reloading Cinnamon (reboot, log out/in, replace) the value will come back within limits by itself. Haven't tested that theory though.

I am however fairly worried that a supposedly tiny thing such as an x-let can - and sometimes does - bring Cinnamon completely to its knees. There is no automatic safeguard and withdrawal (disabling) in Cinnamon upon a critical failure in an x-let. But that's a completely different topic.

Going to sleep now. Hope those eyes won't follow me in bedroom.

[Drugwash]

Updated to v0.2.0.0.

Changes from previous version:
- added hardcoded limits for icon size
- added ability to show Expo and Overview (click / Ctrl+click)
- added ability to switch workplaces (Ctrl + mouse scroll)
- added tooltip info when changing icon size or switching workspaces
- added 'spooky' mode

Download link in first post.

EDIT:
Just noticed the spooky mode works correctly only when icon is placed in a top-sided panel. Been using such configuration for almost 25 years and failed to check other panel configurations. My bad.

Anyway, that mode is just the accidental byproduct of a failed attempt at getting the cross-eyed feature. Until I get some proper fix - if ever - please enable that mode only in top-sided panels. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Drugwash]

Bugfix version v0.2.0.1.

Changes:
- fixed accidentally duplicated timer name

Screenshot for the spooky mode:

Updated screenshot for the settings window:

[Drugwash]

Bugfix version v0.2.0.2.

Changes:
- attempted fix at wrong spooky mode behavior in panels other than top-sided

[Drugwash]

Updated to v0.3.0.0.

Changes:
– refactored the Settings window
– added option to show workspace name in tooltip (only when workspace switching is enabled)
– added a ‘panic button’ that resets all drawing (icon) values to default

New Settings window appearance:

As usual, download link in first post.

[Drugwash]

Bugfix version 0.3.0.1.

Changes:
- fixed a cairo bug littering the xsession-errors log

Download link is in first post.

[Drugwash]

Bugfix version 0.3.0.2.

- fixed tooltip not displaying correct workspace after being switched by other means
- fixed icon size calculation bug with custom getRange() & rangeCheck() functions