Fri, 04/11/2011 - 14:06 | 
webupd8.org
Fedora Utils is a "post installation" script for Fedora which lets you easily install applications that are not available in the main Fedora repositories and tweak various settings.
Tags: Mon, 19/09/2011 - 08:48 | webupd8.org
WebUpd8 reader Reda El Khattabi has created a small tool that makes it very easy to create an Ubuntu AppIndicator for Zenity, YAD (a Zenity fork with many improvements) or basically any bash script or command.
Features:
- supports submenus and separators
- you can specify a custom icon
- persistent mode or quit after executing command
For now the tool doesn't support specifying a timeout after which it should quit, but this feature might be added in the future.
Usage (examples)
The script takes input from stdin and when you select an entry, the whole path is printed to stdout. Here's working example that will create an AppIndicator for Y PPA Manager:
echo "Add
Advanced
List
Search
Settings" | ./cappind.py -p -i y-ppa-manager | while read s; do
case "$s" in
Add ) y-ppa-cmd add ;;
Advanced ) y-ppa-cmd advanced ;;
List ) y-ppa-cmd list ;;
Search ) y-ppa-cmd search ;;
Settings ) y-ppa-cmd settings ;;
esac
done
- "-p" makes the indicator persistent and adds a quit menu item at the end - without it, the indicator quits after executing the select action.
- "-i" specifies an icon from the current icon theme (don't use an exact path to an icon, it won't work. Just enter an icon name).
Tue, 05/07/2011 - 12:03 | webupd8.org
Autoplus and Fedora Utils are two "post installation" scripts for Fedora which you can use to easily install applications that are not available in the main Fedora repositories, such as Adobe Flash, codecs, Google Earth, Skype, Sun Java and more.
Both scripts support Fedora 15 with GNOME 3 and come with a GUI (using Zenity).
Autoplus
Autoplus is more easier to setup (comes with a .rpm and once installed, you can run it from the menu) and use than Fedora Utils, but it comes with fewer options: you can only install / uninstall Adobe Flash, codecs, Google Earth, Skype, Sun Java, VirtualBox, WinFF, Imagination, Cinelerra, Hugin Panorama Creator, Lightscribe, Dropbox, extra backgrounds and sudo with or without password for current user. And of course, it also adds all the repositories required to install these applications.
