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Shrinking Man 0.1 - A Diet Tracking Application

Submitted by knipknap on Sat, 2005-09-10 15:09. General
General

I just finished the first release Shrinking Man, an application for tracking your weight and the calories consumed each day. It integrates well with the GNOME desktop environment. Following the GNOME HIG as closely as possible was one of the objectives, even if there are still some known issues - the window title is one example.

Shrinking Man provides an easy interface: If you are the only user just pop up the application and start editing, but it has also support for multiple profiles if you wish.

Things on the TODO list are:

* Visualization of the history. I might do this as soon as a working Plot widget for Python makes it's way into Breezy.
* Profiles currently consist of files. A more user-friendly approach will likely be implemented.

Requirements
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* Python 2.4 or greater
* pyxml 0.8 or greater
* pygtk 2.8.0 or greater
* pygnome 2.8 or greater

Links
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Homepage: http://debain.org/software/shrinkingman
Screenshots: http://debain.org/software/shrinkingman/screenshots.php
Download: http://debain.org/dlcounter.php?id=90&file=shrinkingman-0.1-1.tar.gz

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What about my girlfriend?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-09-13 02:46.

I mean, she don't like being called a man you know?

Man

Submitted by knipknap on Tue, 2005-09-13 05:16.

The English word "man" does not necessarily mean "male", it also means "human". Feel free to tell your girlfriend that she can think of Shrinking Man in the "human" term.

www.fitday.com by Anonymous George

this lends itself much better to being a web app

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-09-12 11:47.

seems like a form filling exercise that i would want to be able to access from work and home....this says "webapp" to me

Web App by Anonymous George

Well...

Submitted by knipknap on Mon, 2005-09-12 13:04.

Good thought. I also had some ideas in this direction, the idea is that once XML file access is done through gnome-vfs I am hoping that you could simply open and save the file from/in your webspace, so this would essentially provide the same functionality.

I don't know the exact state of the gnome-vfs bindings in Python though, according to somebody on #pygtk, it is "fairly complete". It is also completely undocumented, so not sure when I'll jump the hoop and try to make it work.

-Samuel

Themes

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-09-11 09:16.

I like the themes used in the screenshot. Anyone know what they are or where I can get them?

The Themes

Submitted by knipknap on Sun, 2005-09-11 10:49.

This is my GTK theme Whiteplate with the "Ana" Metacity theme.

The GTK-Theme is here: http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2/1033
The Metacity theme is contained in the Ana GTK package: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=18194