Ok, sorry.
Besides, I just found out about the time-honored Fortune *nix utility and the Fortunoid Plasma Widget which is a front end for it.
Fortune has lots and lots of quotation modules already. In addition, even Drupal and Wordpress have plugins for Fortune.
It is not very difficult to write a script to make Wikiquote pages into Fortune modules.
In Linux, it is never worthwhile to reinvent the wheel.
(Buddha might not be the greatest, in some opinions, but he is the most often quoted. Many now believe that Jesus may have been significantly influenced by Jewish traders from Ashoka's India, where Buddha's aphorisms were widely repeated.)
This is a great idea, but too limited in implementation. Why just atheist quotes, and then by only a few selected authors?
The greatest atheist of all time was the Buddha, yet there are no quotes by him.
Wikiquotes is a fabulous resource, and there are much more interesting quotes there than the ones selected by this module.
Why not just add an option to display any page (or collection of pages) from Wikiquotes?
For the most part, Wikiquotes uses <li> lists, so the script is relatively easy to implement.
I like the other suggestions of implementing a time setting (in which to rotate quotations).
Also, the display of this module is unreadable with many themes (such as Nitro), and it is difficult to modify the display settings.
This module would be extremely popular were it more more customisable.
Dude, this is not a wikiquote plasmoid, it's just an atheist quote plasmoid. Also Budha was not the greatest atheist as there is no such thing anyway. If you don't like it, feel free to improve it or change it. I don't have time to work on it now.
This should be installed by default in every distro. It's a nice way to start the day.
One thing, though: how can I change the font color? I can't see anything unless I select it manually.
I guess I'm more concerned about the Pope than God. Multitudes of people with their finger on the button, are willing to fight to the death either for him or against him. His minions have often claimed he's God on earth.
Does this plasmoid have any quotes like that?
Some of them might be, I didn't read all of them. For your information though, most countries that can "press the button" are not catholic and couldn't care less about the pope.
FYI: The countries that aren't (with significant tensions) are Pakistan, N Korea, Russian Federation, some others.
The countries that ARE include France, USA (the govt is large majority Catholic, just not the people), similar for the UK (devout closet RC just like Blair). Pull out your favorite almanac for all the scary numbers.
Then there's the relevant books on the last Index of Forbidden Literature (when Vatican II started) wherein some respected European politicians argued the the entire Cold War was an encouraged nuclear brinkmanship.
Big bibliography on this topic. Shall I send?
FYI
The us gov? Neo cons hate catholics, as for the obama administration they're protestants too. France is secular and the brits are not catholics. The pope is pretty irrelevant today and has no say in most things. Only South America still listens to him, and less so as years pass...
During the Reagan Administration, his cabinet was often described as the most catholic in American history. The "Bush dynasty" is a sequel to that. And a mere president can change almost nothing.
I can't emphasize enough, don't just look at one man...the presidency. Ya gotta look at congress, the Supreme Court, the NGO's, local govs. The news is all the same. You need to read. You need to look at numbers. The US has virtually embraced "the master religion".
Besides, if you want to make a strong argument, please cite names, dates, surveys, verifiable facts, substance. Please don't just go with opinion. Its all on the 'net.
Groan...I'm very tired.
No, I don't have to make a strong argument, you don't get it. You're the one making the extraordinary claim of a catholic conspiracy so you have to prove your point, not me, I'm not making any claim. And saying that many people are catholic in the gov doesn't prove anything but your paranoia.
Great idea!
I'd like to see some control over the font size. It would also be good if you could schedule the frequency for new quotes to be downloaded.
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Ok, sorry. Besides, I just found out about the time-honored Fortune *nix utility and the Fortunoid Plasma Widget which is a front end for it. Fortune has lots and lots of quotation modules already. In addition, even Drupal and Wordpress have plugins for Fortune. It is not very difficult to write a script to make Wikiquote pages into Fortune modules. In Linux, it is never worthwhile to reinvent the wheel. (Buddha might not be the greatest, in some opinions, but he is the most often quoted. Many now believe that Jesus may have been significantly influenced by Jewish traders from Ashoka's India, where Buddha's aphorisms were widely repeated.)
This is a great idea, but too limited in implementation. Why just atheist quotes, and then by only a few selected authors? The greatest atheist of all time was the Buddha, yet there are no quotes by him. Wikiquotes is a fabulous resource, and there are much more interesting quotes there than the ones selected by this module. Why not just add an option to display any page (or collection of pages) from Wikiquotes? For the most part, Wikiquotes uses <li> lists, so the script is relatively easy to implement. I like the other suggestions of implementing a time setting (in which to rotate quotations). Also, the display of this module is unreadable with many themes (such as Nitro), and it is difficult to modify the display settings. This module would be extremely popular were it more more customisable.
Ok, I looked at the code. This is rather childish. A proper widget ought to be written that is more consistent with Wikiquotes in general.
Dude, this is not a wikiquote plasmoid, it's just an atheist quote plasmoid. Also Budha was not the greatest atheist as there is no such thing anyway. If you don't like it, feel free to improve it or change it. I don't have time to work on it now.
I'm a long time kde user and also the admin of http://www.atheisten.org, so i love especially this plasmoid. :) Thx for your work.
The only quotation plasmoid around and I get failure during installation :(
Make sure you have plasma-scriptengine-webkit or equivalent installed if you use kubuntu, you also need kde 4.3 or newer.
I have Gentoo with KDE-4.3.4. There isn't such a package. When I run plasmapkg -i atheist.plasmoid it says it can not be installed.
Could you past the entire error message please.
It just says: "the installaton of /home/apopatos/atheist-quote.plasmoid failed"
This should be installed by default in every distro. It's a nice way to start the day. One thing, though: how can I change the font color? I can't see anything unless I select it manually.
I guess I'm more concerned about the Pope than God. Multitudes of people with their finger on the button, are willing to fight to the death either for him or against him. His minions have often claimed he's God on earth. Does this plasmoid have any quotes like that?
Some of them might be, I didn't read all of them. For your information though, most countries that can "press the button" are not catholic and couldn't care less about the pope.
FYI: The countries that aren't (with significant tensions) are Pakistan, N Korea, Russian Federation, some others. The countries that ARE include France, USA (the govt is large majority Catholic, just not the people), similar for the UK (devout closet RC just like Blair). Pull out your favorite almanac for all the scary numbers. Then there's the relevant books on the last Index of Forbidden Literature (when Vatican II started) wherein some respected European politicians argued the the entire Cold War was an encouraged nuclear brinkmanship. Big bibliography on this topic. Shall I send? FYI
The us gov? Neo cons hate catholics, as for the obama administration they're protestants too. France is secular and the brits are not catholics. The pope is pretty irrelevant today and has no say in most things. Only South America still listens to him, and less so as years pass...
During the Reagan Administration, his cabinet was often described as the most catholic in American history. The "Bush dynasty" is a sequel to that. And a mere president can change almost nothing. I can't emphasize enough, don't just look at one man...the presidency. Ya gotta look at congress, the Supreme Court, the NGO's, local govs. The news is all the same. You need to read. You need to look at numbers. The US has virtually embraced "the master religion". Besides, if you want to make a strong argument, please cite names, dates, surveys, verifiable facts, substance. Please don't just go with opinion. Its all on the 'net. Groan...I'm very tired.
No, I don't have to make a strong argument, you don't get it. You're the one making the extraordinary claim of a catholic conspiracy so you have to prove your point, not me, I'm not making any claim. And saying that many people are catholic in the gov doesn't prove anything but your paranoia.
Great idea! I'd like to see some control over the font size. It would also be good if you could schedule the frequency for new quotes to be downloaded.
Agreed, and I found the setting! Open jstet.html As follows: Quote:<html>
<head>
</head>
<!-- CHANGE font-size STYLE TAG HERE. It comes default at 24px. Change to 14px and it's small enough to still read. -->
<body style="font-size:24px">
<script src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="harris.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="atheism.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="hitchens.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="irreligious.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="dawkins.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!-- The CSS here seems to be commented out. Not sure why developer did this. -->
<script>/*$('body').append('lllllllloool');
$('*').css('font-size','14px');*/
// $('body').html($haris[0]);
//x=harris();
//alert(x[0])
//console.log($hitchens[0]);
categories =
[ [$harris,"Sam Harris"], [$atheism,""], [$hitchens,"Christopher Hitchens"], [$irreligious,""], [$dawkins,"Richard Dawkins"] ]
var category = categories[Math.floor(Math.random()*categories.length)]
var quote = category[0][Math.floor(Math.random()*category[0].length)]
//console.log(quote)
if(category[1]==""){
author="";
} else {
author = '<li>'+category[1]+'</li>';
}
$('body').html(quote+author);
</script>
</body>
</head>
Where is this file stored?
Found it: ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/atheist-quote/contents/code
"Script initialization failed". Is this only for KDE 4.3? I've 4.2.
4.3 only sorry.
Nice idea, where can I get the source code? Couldn't find it on your web page.
The source is in the plasmoid, it's a zip file.