Re: [Gramps-devel] Making news be headline-news

[Douglas S. B. <db...@cs...>]

On Mon, March 31, 2008 4:47 am, Benny Malengier wrote:

> Doug, can you change the Gramplet?. I would like to have the News page
> contain all the news, past and recent. For that the two sections are
> there:
> news_mainpage and news_archive
> I made a new page to only obtain the new data:
>
> http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:News/Mainpage

Benny,

That would require the Gramplet to parse this:

{{#if: {{{1|}}}| {{#ifexist:
News/{{{1}}}|{{#lst:news/{{{1}}}|news_mainpage}}|{{#lst:news|news_mainpage}}}}
|{{#lst:news|news_mainpage}}}}

Perhaps we could, but can we provided just a page name with the latest news?

> You could use the above in the Gramplet. Then News can be the complete
> news
> again. If you have changed this, let me know and I revert the change
> Stephane did.
> Note that the website is sometimes _very_ slow, so halting loading of
> GRAMPS
> for the gramplet is anyway a bad thing.

I agree, and I've tried everything that I know how using the idle_add in
src/DataView/Gramplets.py:

        self._idle_id = gobject.idle_add(self._updater,
                                 priority=gobject.PRIORITY_LOW - 10)

but it just doesn't work as advertised (unless I'm doing something wrong).

-Doug

> Benny