Testers Wanted

Over the weekend I hacked on a clone of Marco Polo for GNOME. The idea is that you define a set of contexts, such as "work", "in meeting" or "home". The current context is determined by a set of rules, for example being on the "Burton" wireless network means I'm in the "home" context, the time being between 09:00 and 18:00 means the "daytime" context, and so on. Finally, when entering or leaving a context actions can be executed, such as muting the sound card, mounting a remote drive, or changing the default printer. So far I have sources for the time of day and wireless network name, and actions to run a command and set a GConf key.

Now that the basics are in place, I'm looking for other alpha-testers. Experience with Python is a requirement at the moment as there is no UI or configuration file yet. That said, if this application sounds like it could be useful to you then please email me.

NP: !K7, Various

11:00 Tuesday, 18 Mar 2008 [#] [computers] (7 comments)

Posted by Maftoul Samuel at Tue Mar 18 13:01:45 2008:
I found this very interesting, keep working on that ! :)
Posted by Étienne Bersac at Tue Mar 18 15:19:20 2008:
Hi,

Very very nice project ! Have to check it out soon or later.

Étienne.
Posted by Ryan Pavlik at Tue Mar 18 15:24:29 2008:
Count me in - this is slick.  I can envision a UI consisting of essentially two Thunderbird Filter windows (if you're familiar with that dialog, or I think the Nautilus search is similar) - one to add conditions to enter a context, and another to add actions (that may depend, say, on entering HOME context while in Weekend context, for instance.)  The +/- of conditions in such dialogs seems to work well.
Posted by Ryan Graham at Tue Mar 18 20:58:56 2008:
Great, now I'll have to get some sort of portable/non-desktop device AND learn Python...
Posted by James Livingston at Wed Mar 19 06:28:17 2008:
Wow, there's a nice co-incidence - I spent some time on the weekend thinking about a clone of that app too :)

While a "add conditions" dialog would work, one of the things I was interested in was seing how easy it would be to make it auto-learning. For example, if you woke your laptop up and changed it from "Home" to "Work", it would notice that the main differences were the change in network (both the network itself, and that stuff advertised via SMB and mDNS had changed). Then next time you did the same, it would realise a similar change had occurred and automatically switch context.
Posted by Ross at Wed Mar 19 08:11:36 2008:
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Posted by Islam Amer at Wed Mar 19 13:33:54 2008:
that was the idea for my next project in my quest to learn pygtk :) I wanted to call it WZA ( wireless zone actions ).

I move with my laptop from work to home and sit in several cafes with wireless.

At home I want torrents to be full speed, at cafes I want to enable the firewall , at work I want to enable servers etc..

Anyway, I am really interested in helping and testing.

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