Friky 1
Friky 1 is the first version of Friky. It allows to choose music or software in pre-defined categories, and to download them to the USB key. Friky 1 has a nice design, supports internationalization and the different categories can easily be customized. It is ready for production, but doesn't allow the user to preview or to select precisely the music tracks, and is limited in the number of categories.
The free software user group Toulibre already successfully used it during various events.
Download
There have been no official release of Friky 1, so one must get it from the Subversion repository, using the following command :
svn co https://friky.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/friky/friky/trunk friky
It will download the source code in the friky
directory.
Installation
Friky is written in Python, so it requires a Python interpreter to
work. It also needs the Python Gtk bindings, and the Python Gnome
Canvas bindings. Under Debian GNU/Linux, the required packages to run
Friky are: python, python-gtk2 and
python-gnome2.
Friky can directly be run from the directory where it has been
installed. You simply need to do make install to generate
the locales, and benefit from internationalization.
You can run Friky in full-screen mode by doing :
python friky.py -f
Currently, Friky 1 uses a fixed layout of
800 x600 pixels. If your resolution is bigger, then you'll
get gray borders around the Friky 1 interface. If you don't
want these gray borders, then you must configure your X server to run
at 800 x600 , or you must use the xrandr tool
to dynamically change the resolution.
Configuration of categories
Of course, to be fully usable, Friky 1 needs to be
configured. All the configuration takes place in a
categories.txt file. It is by default searched in the
directory of the Friky 1 sources, but this can be overriden
using the -c option.
This categories.txt must have the following
syntax :
"Music, a Jamendo selection\nwww.jamendo.com" = "/home/friky/friky-data/music/" "A complete office suite\ncompatible with MS Office" = "/home/friky/friky-data/software/Ooo_2.1.0_win32.exe" "Mozilla Firefox\nWeb browser" = "/home/friky/friky-data/software/Firefox 2.0.0.1 Setup.exe" "Mozilla Thunderbird\nE-mail client" = "/home/friky/friky-data/software/Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 Setup.exe"
The first part is a string describing the category, that will be
visible by the user. As expected by any programmer, \n
allows to put the following text on a new line. The second part is the
path to either a directory or a file. If it's a directory, then
Friky 1, depending on the space left on the USB key, will allow
to transfer the full contents, or only some of the files present in
that directory. It is designed for a directory full of music tracks,
the number of tracks transferred to the key being dependent of the
space available on it.
Friky 1 is limited to four categories, because of the buttons size and the layout.
Customization of the layout
The layout of Friky 1 can be customized using skins. To
create a skin, you must create a skin_SKINNAME.py file,
which defines several variables, and one function. You must also
create the various pictures needed for the layout: the background, the
logo and the buttons. Take example on the toulibre skin,
which is the only complete skin today.