Unit converter plugin?

[elcste]

It would be great to have a unit converter, e.g. "200 g in oz" or "400 F in C". I miss it from Krunner. Currency (1 eur in usd) would be nice too, but that would need a live data source.

Just a suggestion. :-)

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Cool, for now try wolfram alpha with the '=' trigger

[elcste]

Thanks for the tip and for albert!

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Do you know a good library for this?

[elcste]

Speaking as a user, the one used by krunner is excellent: https://github.com/KDE/kunitconversion. If I'm reading it right it only requires KF5I18n beyond Qt5, but I could be missing something.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017, at 17:04, Manuel Schneider wrote:

Do you know a good library for this?

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[kirkegaard]

I could really use this! I need currency convertion a lot. Right now im using Albert along with dmenu. I have a little snippet that converts currency for me in dmenu but would really love to have this in Albert so i can ditch dmenu.

wget -qO- "http://www.google.com/finance/converter?a=$1&from=$2&to=$3" | sed '/res/!d;s/<[^>]*>//g';

[ManuelSchneid3r]

@kirkegaard What is $1 @Fuhrmann Didn't you try something similar?

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Ah amount I guess :D

[kirkegaard]

Oh yeah sorry! Forgot to add that :)

[kirkegaard]

Actually maybe a plugin that integrated with googles "i feel lucky" would be great since it understands statements like "10 usd in dkk" or "200 g in oz" like @elcste wrote.

I know that gg does a google search but if we could have the result inside albert, that would be amazing :)

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Not a good idea :D

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[ManuelSchneid3r]

https://github.com/albertlauncher/external/blob/master/org.albert.extension.external.currency.sh

[ManuelSchneid3r]

@kirkegaard I used your oneliner to make an extension. Its in the new script repo.

[idkCpp]

albertlauncher/external#10

This plugin can be easily extended by editing the UNITS dict. But I'd love to get these extended tables PRed to the repo please... Just for completeness reasons...

[ManuelSchneid3r]

I guess this one can be closed

[elcste]

Is there a trick to getting this to work? I've cloned the external repo*, but only some of the external plugins show up in Albert, most importantly here, not this one. I'm using v.0.12.0 from the Webupd8 PPA in case that matters.

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* As an aside, when I run the suggested command o install the external plugins, it fails with these messages

Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

but I got it work after changing it to use https:

git clone https://github.com/albertlauncher/external.git "$HOME/.local/share/albert/external/"

My git usage is basically limited to git clone, so it definitely could be something I'm doing wrong ;-)

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Run albert from the terminal. There should be thr error messages. V0.13 will improve this

[elcste]

Thanks! I didn't have units installed :-P

[TheBlackKoala]

Is there a new plugin in python? :D (The link was to the old discontinued repository).

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Check the python extensions