Hi, I am pleased to announce that Safe Eyes 2.0.0 is almost ready. However, I just need to confirm that merging it to master branch will not affect the build packages for Debian, Gentoo, and others (if there are any).

@hartwork and @anarcat could you please confirm this?

Also, I have changed the translation technique. Earlier I used JSON files but now I have switched to formal translation files. It requires all the existing translations to be updated to the new format. Some existing literals are removed and some new literals are added to the translation.

I kindly expect your contribution on translating Safe Eyes 2.0.0, updating the document and testing before releasing the final version. You can test Safe Eyes 2.0.0 by following these steps:

1. git clone https://github.com/slgobinath/SafeEyes.git

2. cd SafeEyes

3. git checkout safeeyes-2.0.0

4. Build the translation file using the following command:

msgfmt -o safeeyes/config/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/safeeyes.mo safeeyes/config/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/safeeyes.po

4. python3 -m safeeyes

Translations cannot be done via Weblate until I merge the changes to master branch. So please send your commits to the safeeyes-2.0.0 branch. I left the previous JSON files for reference but they will be removed before releasing the final version.

What is new in Safe Eyes 2.0.0:

• Completely new architecture

• Features are implemented as plugins

• Plugins become more powerful

  • Plugins can have their own settings and the cool thing is: Safe Eyes automatically creates the respective Settings dialog.
  • Plugins can have their own dependencies
  • Plugins can control Safe Eyes or just display a text content in the break screen (Respective flow control methods are defined)
  • For more details, have a look at the existing plugins and the partially completed README document
  • Users can create their own plugins. I am thinking about maintaining a directory/separate repo for custom plugins depending on the requirement.

• Users can manually start a break

• Persist the internal state

• All most all the configurations can be done via GUI

One more feature is pending to implement. Since the Tray Icon is implemented as plugins, it can be disabled by the user which prevents access to Settings Dialog. I let users disable it considering the Gnome 3 guidelines. However, I will implement an alternative way to launch the Settings dialog without using the Tray Icon. For the moment, stay away from disabling Tray Icon and in case if you have sone so, reset the settings by removing the ~/.config/safeeyes folder.

If you have any suggestions, please do let me know.

@slgobinath what do you think of including daily screen time to the health statistics plugin and maybe some information when desired daily screen time has been exceeded? 😗

instead of suspending time tracking, safeeyes should credit me time that i am idle at the computer.

example: i'm due for a pause, safeeyes tells me so but postpone it. a few minutes later, i actually step away from the computer for 10 minutes. safeeyes consider that "idle time" so it stops tracking time. when i come back, safeeyes wakes up and sends me a warning after 5 minutes because I postponed the last break.

it should have counted my time away and if it was long enough to count as a break, count it as such.

Hi there!

Are there plans to get SafeEyes out of /opt towards pip/setuptools or /usr/local? It would make SafeEyes a much better citizen with regard to packaging on Linux and would allow turning away from the current

sudo tar -xzvf safeeyes.tar.gz -C /

recommendation as well, which I find a bit scary to be honest :) I'm happy to team up on that matter.

Best, Sebastian

PS: There's a Gentoo ebuild in the making at https://cgit.gentoo.org/proj/betagarden.git/tree/x11-misc/safeeyes.

For Ubuntu 16.04.5, buttons are not "enough visible". Tooltips come, but no images. I just updated through apt-get (2.0.8)

Originally posted by @stdedos in https://github.com/slgobinath/SafeEyes/pull/295#issuecomment-456313148

Hi, I recently updated my OS from Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04. But I found that the safeeyes isn't stable. Sometimes it keeps getting to the status of "Disabled until restart", and then it will restart itself. It is repeating this procedure while I'm typing here. Apparently this hasn't affected it's function, but watching it switching on and off is quite annoying.

Is there any information I should provide you?

And I've got another question. Is it possible to remove the tray icon since it's unnecessary? 'Cause with the plugin of Ubuntu on, it will be displayed even if it's necessary. Is it possible to make it a choice like the Variety by Peter Levi has done? Thanks.

I am not sure whether there is a such function in the current version, but I cannot find it. Sometimes I cannot stop my work right at the given time, so I am wondering whether you can add a button for manual break. In that way, I can take a break whenever I want. Thanks a lot. By the way, I am Chinese. If you want to add the Chinese translation, I can help. : )

I just upgraded to 2.1.1 and now all the platform files are missing. The problem is this commit https://github.com/slgobinath/SafeEyes/commit/12b2b0b2a4bd4bdda20d55fea4a45096651460be. Although initialize_platform() would be run for a new install, it isn't run on upgrade from an older version when config files are already present.

https://github.com/slgobinath/SafeEyes/blob/ee078e5f3bbce4df4927dc4b4d813131d1f2b6b4/safeeyes/Utility.py#L100

I've got maybe non-standard locale settings since I'm from Poland but I prefer to have interface in English. So I have LANG/LANGUAGE set to en_US.utf8/en_US but I set "LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.utf8 LC_COLLATE=pl_PL.utf8" in my dot files. In default settings generated by the system (/etc/default/locale) I see also LC_TIME set to pl_PL.utf8 so I can change that but actually I prefer having 24h clock instead of AM/PM.

So I'd like to ask for possibility to:

1. Base the interface language used on LANG/LC_MESSAGES instead of LC_TIME
2. Advanced option would be to split locale: having one for time and one for interface/messages (maybe this option is not even needed since correctly installed locale should be respecting LC_TIME override)

Best regards Andrzej

PS. If you agree that such modification make sense (to me it does - since MESSAGES seems to be more specific to tell what kind of language I want to see in the interface) then it looks to me like the following patch achieves both points:

--- Utility-orig.py	2018-01-15 11:56:09.990407876 +0100
+++ Utility.py	2018-01-15 12:02:31.688636092 +0100
@@ -91,13 +91,13 @@
         GLib.idle_add(target_function)
 
 
-def system_locale():
+def system_locale(category=locale.LC_MESSAGES):
     """
     Return the system locale. If not available, return en_US.UTF-8.
     """
     try:
         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
-        sys_locale = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME)[0]
+        sys_locale = locale.getlocale(category)[0]
         if not sys_locale:
             sys_locale = 'en_US.UTF-8'
         return sys_locale
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
     """
     Format time based on the system time.
     """
-    sys_locale = system_locale()
+    sys_locale = system_locale(locale.LC_TIME)
     return babel.dates.format_time(time, format='short', locale=sys_locale)

I was using 2.0.9 which has been a great product, ubunto showed me the update and I clicked install, update was successful but on next restart it wasn't starting at all. I tried many things and didn't work, I downloaded the source of 2.0.9 and installed again that stable version.

Hi, I'm using the tool on a laptop connected to an external monitor and it works great. But once I'm out of office, I do not spend much continues time in front of a laptop. Breaks come "naturally" (as I move) and SafeEyes distributes me unnecessary in between. Even worse, the tool might interrupt me at wrong time (during meetings, presentations etc).

Please add an option which would allow me disable breaks if laptop is running on batteries. You can probably create this option in "do not disturb" plugin or create an another similar plugin.

Thank you!

Happy New Year to the Safe Eyes Community!

I created Safe Eyes for my own needs and published it FOSS years ago. I'm happy to see the impact Safe Eyes make and like to see it grows further. However, I'm unable to find enough time to spend on Safe Eyes due to some other projects, family, and a demanding job.

Though I want to add new features and take this project to the next level (Safe Eyes 3 has been a dream project for a long period) I couldn't find enough time. Therefore, I am looking for new maintainers willing to take over Safe Eyes and keep it active. I'm happy to share my thoughts and contribute whenever I get some time but it would be beneficial for the project if someone with new ideas and energy can take over Safe Eyes.

Safe Eyes users don't have to worry. It doesn't mean I'm gonna archive the repo. If I couldn't find any new maintainers I will still maintain this repo but like the past few years, the project may not receive a lot of new features.

Right now, there's a command-line argument to immediately take a break: "safeeyes -t".

However it's impossible to trigger a specific type of break, so you randomly get either a short or a long break.

Is it possible to implement a command-line argument, so I can force a long break like "safeeyes -tl"?

I have two use cases:

1. I'd like to have long breaks at specific times, for example each hour at xx:45 for 15 minutes. I could create a Cron job to trigger the command at that time. However, this requires me to trigger a specific break.

2. I'd like to define a global hotkey for taking long breaks. For me it's easier to voluntarily push a hotkey in order to take a break while procrastinating, than to do it by navigating the mouse to the Safe Eyes menu. Maybe it's because it's faster via hotkey, so my brain cannot intervene.

Thank you very much for your consideration and especially for creating such a great piece of software.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I have observed this a lot of times now, and now raising an issue about it because it's important. Whenever I watch a YouTube Video or any other media file, I usually (and most people) don't use the mouse and keyboard and just listen/watch that media. And because of this, the software detects as we are AFK and pauses itself which eventually postpones the break, if this happens, what's the point of this break reminder app?

Describe the solution you'd like I think it must not be a hard problem to solve, we just need to detect if any media file is playing and stop the detection of AFK.

Describe the bug

In the AUR package, python-croniter is listed as an optional dependency. However, in setup.py, croniter is listed in the requires array.

As a result, when Arch users try to run SafeEyes, they will encounter the situation as described in this comment.

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'croniter' distribution was not found and is required by safeeyes

If it is required for the program to run, then python-croniter should be moved to the depends array in the PKGBUILD.

If it is optional, then the Python setup script has to be tweaked. (I am not sure but perhaps it's extras_require?)

The bug Since a few weeks, safeeyes fails to start due to some missing X authorization:

$ safeeyes
[...]
Xlib.error.DisplayConnectionError: Can't connect to display ":0": b'Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified\n'

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Open Gnome with Wayland launch safeeyes

Instead, trying to launch it from startx, it worked without error.

Expected behavior Should work also on Gnome with Wayland.

Desktop:

• OS: Arch
• Desktop Env: 43.2
• Version: safeeyes-git from AUR (2.1.4.r3.g9123562-1)

Debug Log Run the Safe Eyes using safeeyes --debug command attach the ~/safeeyes.log` file.

2022-12-10 17:07:08,289 [DEBUG]:[MainThread] Initialize the platform
2022-12-10 17:07:08,306 [INFO]:[MainThread] Starting Safe Eyes
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/safeeyes", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('safeeyes==2.1.4', 'console_scripts', 'safeeyes')())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/safeeyes/__main__.py", line 150, in main
    safe_eyes = SafeEyes(system_locale, config)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/safeeyes/safeeyes.py", line 84, in __init__
    self.break_screen = BreakScreen(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/safeeyes/ui/break_screen.py", line 47, in __init__
    self.display = Display()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Xlib/display.py", line 89, in __init__
    self.display = _BaseDisplay(display)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Xlib/display.py", line 71, in __init__
    protocol_display.Display.__init__(self, *args, **keys)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Xlib/protocol/display.py", line 166, in __init__
    raise error.DisplayConnectionError(self.display_name, r.reason)
Xlib.error.DisplayConnectionError: Can't connect to display ":0": b'Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified\n'

Workaround

I managed to temporarily solve authorizing my own user to run X things:

xhost +SI:localuser:#$(id -u)

Describe the bug Hi @slgobinath, it has been brought to my attention that the SafeEyes PyPI tarballs contain some compiled .pyc files. I believe that is an accident and likely points to some problem in the process of making these files. What do you think? Best, Sebastian

To Reproduce

# wget -O- https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/1d/e8/221f5afdb7aba8524496906e1fc7d58bd75fb7cf0b3036392cffcd632eda/safeeyes-2.1.4.tar.gz 2>/dev/null | tar tz | grep '\.pyc$' | sort
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/audiblealert/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-310.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/audiblealert/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/breakscreen/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/donotdisturb/__pycache__/dependency_checker.cpython-310.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/donotdisturb/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-310.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/donotdisturb/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/donotdisturb/__pycache__/validator.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/healthstats/__pycache__/dependency_checker.cpython-310.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/healthstats/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-310.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/healthstats/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/healthstats/__pycache__/validator.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/mediacontrol/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-310.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/mediacontrol/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/notification/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-310.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/notification/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/rpcserver/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/rpcserver/__pycache__/validator.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/screensaver/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-310.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/screensaver/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/smartpause/__pycache__/dependency_checker.cpython-310.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/smartpause/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-310.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/smartpause/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/smartpause/__pycache__/validator.cpython-38.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/trayicon/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-310.pyc
safeeyes-2.1.4/safeeyes/plugins/trayicon/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-38.pyc

Expected behavior No .pyc in source tarballs.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: n/a
• Desktop Env: n/a
• Version: 2.1.4 + earlier releases

Debug Log n/a

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