Fliewr (Flickr Viewr)

Fliewr is a Flickr photostream viewer for any Gtk-enabled desktop. Fliewr monitors activity on your contacts photostreams and displays preview images with detailed information of each image available on mouse over.

Requirements

In order to install and run fliewr you should have the following packages installed on your system:

• Ruby interpreter
• GTK+ library
• Gecko engine from Mozilla
• Ruby bindings to GTK+
• Ruby/Gtk2 bindings to Mozilla
• RubyGems gem manager
• libXml Ruby library
• REST Client gem
• PPDS libraries gem

You can install required packages with the following command

On Gentoo Linux

$ sudo emerge -uva dev-ruby/ruby-gconf2 dev-ruby/ruby-gtk2 \ dev-ruby/ruby-gtkmozembed dev-ruby/libxml

On Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev rubygems ruby-gnome2 libgtk-mozembed-ruby \ libxml-ruby libxml2 libxml2-dev libopenssl-ruby

Installation

$ sudo gem install ppds-libs rest-client fliewr

Fliewr comes with both desktop entry file and icon, though they are not installed automatically during gem installation process. To make Fliewr acessible via GNOME menu move data/fliewr.application file into /usr/share/application/ directory, and copy data/pixmaps/fliewr.svg icon to /usr/share/pixmaps/ directory accordingly.

Usage

At the first start you should enter your Tumblr email and password to get access to your blogs.

Source files

GitHub repository