Hello, I have a few issues regarding the install script. I understand that this plugin is rather small and can't address complex and rare situations during its installations. But I'll list them anyway:

• Why does it need sudo? It doesn't fail without it, and there shouldn't be a reason for it to - we're only copying files into a folder under ~/.local. If the user decides to use a different directory for plugins and root privileges are required for that, he will most likely know himself that he needs sudo

• pip, WakaTime CLI installation

  • pip shouldn't be used by importing. Replace with subprocess
  • wakatime presence is detected by importing, but always used as subprocess. This also broke in my case, as I had WakaTime CLI installed with pipx – in an isolated environment, and only a special wakatime executable is placed in ~/.local/bin. However, it's not available for import, so the install script didn't detect it, and installed it again with pip, overwriting the executable.
  • The CLI should probably be updated at some point too,

• Gedit version detection. Currently, there's hardcoded version 3. I found two places where I could get some versions – gi.__version__ gives me 3.36.0, gi._versions["Gedit"] gives 3.0. But my Gedit shows 3.36.2.

I could not find the wakatime.cfg
Operating System: Ubuntu

When I execute the install.py file, it displays both an error and a successfully installed message.

env

pip --version
pip 19.2.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pip (python 3.6)
python --version
Python 3.6.8

install.py

host:~/download/gedit-wakatime-1.0.1
@user $ sudo ./install.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./install.py", line 32, in check_wakatime
    import wakatime
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'wakatime'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./install.py", line 56, in <module>
    install()
  File "./install.py", line 45, in install
    check_wakatime()
  File "./install.py", line 37, in check_wakatime
    pip.main(['install', 'wakatime'])
AttributeError: module 'pip' has no attribute 'main'

Gedit 40.0 removed a few properties and methods, so it didn't send heartbeat to wakatime for last 7 days.

diff --git a/gedit_wakatime/plugin.py b/gedit_wakatime/plugin.py
index ee2335f..7e11c19 100644
--- a/gedit_wakatime/plugin.py
+++ b/gedit_wakatime/plugin.py
@@ -43,15 +43,15 @@ class WakatimePlugin(GObject.Object, Gedit.WindowActivatable):
       if doc not in _documents:
           _documents.append(doc)
           doc.connect('saved', self.on_document_saved)
-            doc.connect('cursor-moved', self.on_document_changed)
+            doc.connect('tepl-cursor-moved', self.on_document_changed)
 
   def on_document_saved(self, document, data=None):
-        file_uri = document.get_uri_for_display()
+        file_uri = document.get_file ().get_location ().get_path ()
       logger.debug('Document saved: {}'.format(file_uri))
       send_heartbeat(file_uri, write=True)
 
   def on_document_changed(self, document, data=None):
-        file_uri = document.get_uri_for_display()
+        file_uri = document.get_file ().get_location ().get_path ()
       logger.debug('Document changed: {}'.format(file_uri))
       send_heartbeat(file_uri)

<- this patch fixed the plugin.

Hello there,

I'm an Ubuntu/Debian Contributor (sort of). I think packaging this would be cool, and I would LOVE to do it but I have an idea:

For this gedit plugin we're using a self-made install.py script. It may be better to use what most gedit plugins use, python3-setuptools. While upstream GNOME Gedit plugin repo's aren't made this way, for Debian packaging it would be a) much nicer and b) easier to use. A few examples of this is in Nemo, an alternative to GNOME's Nautilus for Cinnamon's extensions repo, which has lots of python plugins and each of them have setuptools python files. (example: nemo-compare)

With debian pacakging tools such as dh_python3 this makes things a lot easier.

I'll probably open a PR for this but I thought I should open this for discussion first.

Ubuntu 14.04

sudo python ~/gedit-wakatime-master/install.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/username/gedit-wakatime-master/install.py", line 38, in <module>
    except PermissionError:
NameError: name 'PermissionError' is not defined

What should I do?

Hi,

I just found out that fedora 25 does not use /usr/lib/gedit/plugins but /usr/lib64/gedit/plugins. I moved the files and it is now available at the plugins list of gedit.

Thanks!

Ubuntu Linux 22.04.1 LTS
gedit-wakatime-2.0.1
Gedit 21.0

0. Added and saved .wakatime.cfg in home folder:

[settings]
api_key = mykeyhere

1. Ran install script.
2. Plugin appeared in Gedit plugins menu OK.
3. Enabled plugin.
4. Restarted couple of times.
5. Used Gedit for good while.
6. No statistics

I get statistics from Rider, Chrome, and Obsidian - no problem.

Nothing from Gedit.

Here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49839610/attributeerror-module-pip-has-no-attribute-main says that since old times pip moved 'main' into internals, so in file setup.py:36 needs to change to something like this
from pip._internal import main
main(['install', 'wakatime'])