SpiceSpy

This applet alerts you when a change is made (new score, new comments) to your favorite spices on the dedicated Cinnamon website.

It's useful for Spices developers and also for users who have posted a comment or a question and are waiting for an answer.

Installation

System Settings -> Applets:

1. Download tab: search and download SpiceSpy.
2. Manage tab: add SpiceSpy to a panel.

Configure

Open the menu of this applet and select Configure...

Some options are available. But the most important are the list of authors and the list of specific Spices you are interested in.

Icon and label

When the score or number of comments changes, the differences are indicated in the label and the icon changes color; you can choose this color.

Menu

The menu of the SpiceSpy applet contains:

• A button "Mark all as read".
• A button "Refresh"
• The list of Spices with, for each Spice:
  • its name or UUID, depending on your choice.
  • its icon (optional)
  • its score
  • its number of comments
  • its number of available translations (optional).
  • its number of open issues (optional).
• A button "Configure..."

Please note:

• clicking on the Spice name (or UUID) or on its icon or on its score opens its web page, at the top of this page.
• clicking on the Spice comments opens its web page, at the comments section.
• clicking on the Spice translations opens the web page showing the status of translations.
• clicking on the Spice issues opens the web page showing the open issues.

Translations

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FAQ

No instant display

In this applet's menu, try Refresh... just once.

There's no point in refreshing several times in a row; you'll just saturate the Cinnamon server with requests and it will end up blocking you for an hour.

Let the applet do its thing and you'll soon see the Spices concerned displayed in its menu.

Only applets are available in the menu

That's because you've never downloaded any type of Spice other than Applets.

To make a Spice type visible, simply open the Download tab for that Spice type from System Settings. For Themes, you must first have selected Advanced Settings.

The number of comments is updated very slowly

To avoid overloading the Cinnamon server, requests to it are spaced 13 seconds apart.

On first use, all comment numbers are initialized to zero. Then, every 13 seconds, a comment number is updated.

Once all comment numbers have been updated, you can use the Mark all as read menu option. The applet is then fully functional: you'll be notified of any score changes or new comments.

How to know the Author or the UUID of a spice?

On the Cinnamon website open the page of a Spice.

Example: Radio3.0 applet. At the top of the page, you see "Radio3.0 by claudiux" (the author or current maintainer of this applet is claudiux).

Just below, you see the UUID of this applet: Radio3.0@claudiux

Please note that there is no need to enter the UUID of a Spice whose author is already in the Authors list.