Github Explorer

Github explorer allows you to explorer all the public repositories for a user.

• Add your public GitHub username after its installed to you're Cinnamon desktop to get going.

Features

• Automatic refresh with controls
• Basic alerts about new issues, forks, watch etc
• Quick access to all useful links for a repository

• Quick access to creating Gist's and navigating to Gihub.

• For issues please report any problems here

• For future changes see TODO

Installation Cinnamon 1.8+

• Right click on your panel, click 'Add applets to the panel'.
• Click on 'Get more online' tab.
• Find 'Github Explorer', right click and 'Mark for installation'.
• Once installed 'Configure' and 'Add to panel'.

Installation Pre Cinnamon 1.8

• Download version 0.5 from here
• Place the folder in ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/
• Right click on the applet to alter settings, adding your username
• Restart Cinnamon or your PC

Tested:

• Cinnamon 2.0+
• Linux Mint 16

Change Log

V1.4

• Added link to view watchers with icon
• Created simple github page
• Renamed repository to github-explorer

V1.3

• Indentation added to nested menu elements, thanks @azzazzel

V1.2

• Tested on Cinnamon 2.0+
• Removed Settings context menu link if running on Cinnamon 2.0+

V1.1

• Added ability to create a Gist as default
• Contribution: Removed warnings from Looking Glass, thanks @Koutch

V1.0

• Basic support of watching changes to repos and notification of alerts
• Enable additional notifications with settings, default disabled

Historic Changes

V0.9

• Prevent further GitHub query when API query threshold reached, uses X-RateLimit headers
• Improve applet tooltip on API rate exceeded and errors
• Build in verbose Logging for with setting to enable/disable

V0.8

• Remove old settings files which are not needed
• Optional menu item if no project home found i.e. don’t display it if not present
• Last Query Attempt added to tooltip off applet
• Simple logging of Request limits and rates

V0.7

• Removal of custom settings implementation, now using Cinnamon 1.8 Settings API and hooks as well as adding more settings
• Tweaked context menu to open new settings
• Re-factor of looping code when querying Github

V0.6

• Increased default refresh interval to 3 minutes
• Change default user to 'username' and @myself
• Github username link not updated when user changes
• Display popup when no user is set on start
• Dont perform inital lookup request when no user is set
• Re-factorings of menu creation logic, method names etc

V0.5

• Fix missing icon in applet explorer - thanks @maristgeek
• Improve installation scripts - thanks @magno32
• Fix missing user agent string from Github API integration - thanks @magno32
• General code re-factor of error reporting
• Ensure working with Cinnamon 1.8 and Linux Mint 15
• Remove Verbose Logging mode as served little purpose

V0.4

• On 403 error from Git Hub, show error message supplied in alert and not default error message
• Re-factor Notifications and their content
• Minor re-factorings, replacement of _this being miss used!
• Enable verbose logging mode via settings, default false

V0.3-Beta

• Only show failure message X 5
• Re-written error message to make sense!
• Correct Icon/Image for settings right click menu

Archived Versions

For use on Cinnamon 1.7 and below please use release V0.5 which can be found within the release folder.

Screen Shot:

Other Demo's

• /demo/force-quit/ = A simple applet to kill a specified window - tutorial: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=156
• /demo/test-notification/ = a simple applet which should demonstrate (or find issues) using HTML in notifications