change name or revision number of your fork

[asqwerth]

Hi, I made a request of the MX Linux packaging team to package your fork of CM for trial and assessment, since it is stated to be able to detect new-syntax conky configs, which the original CM doesn't.

The packaging team have asked if it is possible for you to rename your fork or give it a different revision number, presumably so that it does not clash with CM or try to write over it. CM is installed by default in MX installs and I believe the MX-app called "MX-Conky" may depend on it.

If possible, I would like to run both CM and CM2 side by side, and compare the 2.

Thanks!

[zcot]

@asqwerth,

Check it out(clone) for yourself.

The name is changed.

The revision number is changed.

The binary is changed.

You can run both side by side.

[asqwerth]

Thank you. The MX packaging team had previously checked and confirmed that it had a newer version number but was viewed as an update to the original CM. As we did not hear from you for a while and weren't sure how actively this was maintained, we proceeded to carry out internal testing on the fork as a pure update (instead of testing them side by side). It's been working very well. Opened it up for further testing on the public forum itself. So far no issues. I will ask the packaging team and MX devs whether it's more appropriate for cm2 to be seen as an update or as a separate package of its own, if we do decide to implement it in MX Linux.

[zcot]

You should point the coders and packagers here, because they will easily understand. ;)

The repo does already show everything.

Additionally, here is where the situation started as a PR against Tony George's original source, and you can check the transaction and see how this fork came about: https://github.com/teejee2008/conky-manager/pulls

Also, possibly of interest, someone on the Linux Mint forum created a flat version of the icon, although I don't know if any or what license is attached to that: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=211&t=312994

And hint, of course, after someone solves hint the issue with automatic detection of network devices, hint and sends the PR, then it can be hint added, 😃 : #14

But, honestly, the more interesting enhancement is adding a viewable log output scheme.

[asqwerth]

Sorry for the delayed response! Thanks for the additional information. I'll point the devs to this page and the Linuxmint page.

[asqwerth]

With respect to your comment about having an icon, I modified the conky-manager icon found in Papirus icon theme, since it's under the GPL 3.0 licence.

You are welcome to use it if you wish, and I attach a zip file enclosing 48x48 and 64x64 svg files for the same (licence details also included).

conky_manager2-generic-icon.zip