hoodle is welcome:
hoodle is published as several packages in hackage, which is a collection of releases of Haskell packages. Current version of hoodle is 0.4.
You need to have ghc-7.6 or higher, or equivalently haskell-platform-2014.2 or higher. gtk2hs is prerequisite and poppler (both C library and haskell binding) is also needed for pdf annotation.
To use wacom tablet on linux systems, please install xserver-xorg-input-wacom or equivalent (On Arch Linux, xf86-input-wacom). To make sure you have it installed, check whether xsetwacom exist in /usr/bin
Hoodle uses several external libraries and binary executable, such as gtk+, poppler library, rsvg library, gd library and pdftk tool. In most linux distributions, these can be installed easily by package managers. For examples, on a ubuntu system, run ($ represents bash prompt here)
$ apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev librsvg2-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libgd2-xpm-dev pdftkBefore installing hoodle, gtk2hs-buildtools must be installed:
cabal install gtk2hs-buildtoolsHaskell binding libraries such as gtk2hs (for gtk+), svgcairo (for rsvg), poppler (for poppler C library) will be automatically installed.
Once gtk2hs and poppler are installed, then just type
cabal install hoodleHoodle has configuration file in $HOME/.hoodle and $HOME/.hoodle.d. The former is for basic configuration without using haskell, and the latter is for advanced configuration using haskell. In the following, I give some important remarks about configuration.
By default, hoodle does not use xinput extension which gives subpixel resolution for wacom digitizer because of compatibility. To enable X11 input extension support, please do the following step.
First, check your wacom devices using xsetwacom --list devices. In my case, the result is like the following:
$ xsetwacom --list devices
Wacom ISDv4 EC Pen stylus id: 9 type: STYLUS
Wacom ISDv4 EC Pen eraser id: 13 type: ERASER Then, add the following line in .hoodle file in your $HOME directory.
stylus="Wacom ISDv4 EC Pen stylus"
eraser="Wacom ISDv4 EC Pen eraser"
xinput = "true"The “Wacom …” part must be replaced by the result from xsetwacom --list devices.
Since version 0.2.1, hoodle now supports touch input. To enable touch, in the $HOME/.hoodle file, one needs to specify touch device. One can check the name of a touch device by
$ xinput --listIn my case, the result shows Atmel Atmel maXTouch Digitizer. Then, put the name of the device in $HOME/.hoodle like
touch="Atmel Atmel maXTouch Digitizer"You can turn touch on and off by a hand toolbar item. When a stylus pen approaches, the touch input is automatically turned off.
Hoodle has a scripting support like xmonad if hoodle-core and hoodle cabal packages are compiled with -fdyre option. Once it is set up, $HOME/.hoodle.d/start.hs as a script will be automatically compiled using dyre. Therefore you can customize your hoodle by start.hs. Currently, only a few hooks are available, but more and more hooks will be added in the future.
As an example, there is file name suggestion hook (using current date/time) and custom context menu hook. (using this, I automatically generate png image from selected items and put it on my dropbox folder. This turned out extremely useful.) See my example start.hs : https://gist.github.com/4551914
I have tested hoodle-0.1 using Haskell Platform 2012.4.0.0 on Windows 7. Since I do not have working Windows machine now, I could not test the recent version. If you try, please let me know your story about it
hoodle is now packaged in the nixpkgs repo of Nix package manager and NixOS. If you are a Nix user, this may be the best option for you.
CALL FOR PACKAGE MANAGER : If anyone could create a binary package for hoodle for various linux distribution, windows and OS X, I would appreciate it very much.
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