invest-applet
On this page I take notes on what I'm doing to improve Gnome's invest-applet.
My work has focused on the following issues:
- look, get rid of some glitches Ivest had
- add/remove stock, call it with its name (edit list instead of preferences)
- connectivity and tooltip, better support when downloading images/csv (proxy included)
See download section on how to easily install invest from my personal repository
look
previous icons
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new icons
| 16×16 png | 22×22 png | 48×48 png | svg | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| neutral |  |  |  | invest_neutral.svg |
| up |  |  |  | invest_up.svg |
| down |  |  |  | invest_down.svg |
before and after
- restored external indicator
- make sure that not only US stocks are plotted with double-click
- added sparkline graph
- removed monospace font
- sort columns in order to improve usability
before
after
add/remove stock
Improve usability when add/removing stocks, targeted bugs: 460085, 473706, 450176, 499206
Changes:
- rename 'preferences' to 'edit list'
- remember the order of the stocks, let the user choose manually or by column sort
- show a small icon to identify if entry is a ticker or a position (position icon is not definitive)
- help the user in inserting tickers (auto start editing on add, if amount is entered auto start editing price cell, etc)
- backend: new classes to deal with stock entries, new stocks file definition (auto convert if old one is found)
- TODO: handle multi-purchase positions
| before | after |
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connectivity and tooltip
While I'm doing some tests for removing dependency from gnome-vfs, I'm experimenting with the tooltip also. It is a nice and quick way to communicate invest's state.
download it!
newest invest-applet can be found on my repository on launchpad, you're encouraged to test it and provide feedback
add the following lines on your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/matteozandi/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/matteozandi/ubuntu hardy main
Please note that packages provided on my repository are for testing purposes, use at your own risk.
Discussione
Great work, thank you!
I think it would be nice if the applet showed the information just by passing the mouse pointer over it. This would be very useful when you just want to take a fast look at the stock situation: it would save two mouse clicks!
Bye, Federico.
Yeah, I think that a tooltip would be very useful for giving info about invest status, for example 'last updated hh:mm' or 'could not connect to Yahoo! Finance', together with a synthesis of monitored stocks change.