Cloned and installed the tool. As soon as I run discover-overlay nothing appears on screen, the tray icon is a grey circle that allows me to change the settings but on the terminal I see the following

/usr/local/bin/discover-overlay:1000: PyGIWarning: AppIndicator3 was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('AppIndicator3', '0.1') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
  from gi.repository import AppIndicator3
Could not find monitor : None
Could not find monitor : None

On Ubuntu 18.04.

Let's figure out a roadmap of planned features and use the milestones features in GitHub to monitor progress

What's that? Not code? Boooooooooriiiiing

Right now, the usernames only show beside the avatars.

Can the usernames be displayed below or above the avatars?

If you make the font size large enough the left (beginning) part of the names get cut off. More obvious with longer names and larger avatar size.

It is a minor issue, but I think it is cool if software also handles extreme edge cases well.

currently all images are shown as '--attachment--'. Optionally allow users to see the image sent

I have an idea for a much more intuitive design for adjusting the position of the overlay to be used eventually instead of the current one with 2 or 3 dropdowns and 1 number field (also currently one can't adjust the padding from the horizontal sides).

It could work thus:

1. User opens settings.
2. User clicks a button for Customize position.
3. GUI changes to only have following buttons Cancel, Reset, Done[1]
4. User clicks and drags the existing (placeholder) overlay to a place suitable to them.
5. User clicks a button on:
   5.1. Cancel, to reset to the starting state.
   5.2. Reset, to reset to a sensible default
   5.3. Done to let the application save the position of the overlay.[2]

This could ideally also include the extra feature of adjusting the scaling factor and limits of the overlay in the customization mode if that is possible. Scaling factor would affect the font size and avatar size. Maybe the current settings could then be hidden behind an Advanced/Expert mode toggle of the UI. I can make a separate comment or issue fleshing out this in greater detail, if this is relevant.

[1] The preferred order of buttons seems to vary based on platform. Ideally maybe your used framework can handle that according to some preferences or platform conventions.Reset button would only be required if it is possible end up in a non-functional state somehow.
[2] Perhaps in percentages of screen size, rather than direct pixels? So as to accommodate resolution changes or monitor switches. Generally any the underlay (stuff beneath the overlay) adjusts (or gets adjusted manually) to changing resolutions or aspect ratios. I guess ideally there can be an option in the config file (and maybe Advanced/Expert mode of the UI) where you can specify whether it should be in pixels or percentages.

I installed correctly but when I run discover-overlay I get this error

$ discover-overlay 
Using XShape instead of composite
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/discover-overlay", line 1058, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/bin/discover-overlay", line 1039, in main
    create_gui()
  File "/usr/local/bin/discover-overlay", line 984, in create_gui
    win = OverlayWindow()
  File "/usr/local/bin/discover-overlay", line 649, in __init__
    self.set_untouchable()
  File "/usr/local/bin/discover-overlay", line 718, in set_untouchable
    reg = Gdk.cairo_region_create_from_surface(surface)
KeyError: 'could not find foreign type Surface'

Currently loading a URL to get an avatar image hangs the GTK main loop which could cause the app to appear un responsive. It also holds up communication & redrawing.

Need to change the image loader to be async and to fallback on default avatar until the image is ready

Having a large segment of the code relying on globals and global-scoped functions which pass around a bunch of contexts is absolutely not ideal.

Move all Socket & communication into a class. Narrow down global scoped to entry point only.

Any users in voice chat who have not manually set an avatar are supplied a generic image in Discord, but overlay is supplied with no image.

As we're probably still somewhat off of a formal launch, we should figure out the most sain way of managing versions now rather than later.

"Latest" is not appropriate versioning for a stable release ;). I suggest a separate branch for each version reached, with latest always being the worked on codebase.

N.B - will go hand in hand with project milestones.

Currently in Wayland a small window is drawn which can be minimised and maximised. Not intended outcome

`(discover.py:2008): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:19:03.347: gtk_widget_get_window: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(discover.py:2008): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:19:03.347: gtk_widget_translate_coordinates: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (dest_widget)' failed

(discover.py:2008): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:19:03.347: gtk_widget_get_window: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(discover.py:2008): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:19:03.347: gtk_widget_translate_coordinates: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (dest_widget)' failed

(discover.py:2008): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:19:03.347: gtk_widget_get_settings: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gtk.py:1644: Warning: g_object_get: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
return _Gtk_main(*args, **kwargs)

(discover.py:2008): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:19:03.348: gtk_widget_get_window: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(discover.py:2008): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:19:03.348: gtk_widget_translate_coordinates: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (dest_widget)' failed

(discover.py:2008): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:19:04.582: gtk_widget_get_window: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(discover.py:2008): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:19:04.582: gtk_widget_get_window: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(discover.py:2008): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:19:04.582: gtk_widget_get_window: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
`

Currently, selecting top in Overlay Location put it right at the top - Which is great. Would be useful to have a configurable padding option so it is padded down from the top and allows system ui's to be used.

Hello,
I can't figure out how to configure the settings.
Could someone explain that to me?
Thank you!

Basic system information:

• Running Slackware 14.2 at Kernel version 4.4.217
• Desktop is XFCE
• Running dual monitors

Issue

Installing works fine, but when I attempt to run from a command line I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
  File "/home/murdo/.local/bin/discover-overlay", line 8, in <module>                                                                                                                                                                                                          
    sys.exit(entrypoint())                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
  File "/home/murdo/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 1077, in entrypoint                                                                                                                                                         
    main()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
  File "/home/murdo/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 1055, in main                                                                                                                                                               
    create_gui()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
  File "/home/murdo/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 997, in create_gui                                                                                                                                                          
    win = OverlayWindow()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
  File "/home/murdo/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 663, in __init__                                                                                                                                                            
    self.force_location()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
  File "/home/murdo/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 743, in force_location                                                                                                                                                      
    monitor = display.get_monitor(self.monitor)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
AttributeError: 'X11Display' object has no attribute 'get_monitor' 

Let's make the readme more useful. I'll start.

Might also be worth a demo video to show off features.

I had to copy the __main__.py file from which discover-overlay over to the project to be able to run it with the debugger.

Here's my launch.json file

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Python: Module",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "module": "discover_overlay"
        }
    ]
}

This way, for example, changing Edge padding when overlay is vertically centered does practically nothing. It also seems unintuitive. Should edge padding affect both vertical/horizontal paddings or maybe it should be split into two separate options?

As a straightforward way to choose where the text channel overlay will appear a window could pop up and after the user positions & sizes it to their need the location can be recorded and used to draw the text channel of choice.

With The Vive and Index now supporting Linux, I wonder how the overlay would interact with them. This needs testing.

Look into whether packaging for various distributions is necessary or not.

When setting up a floating window chat it works as expected.
However, if you then change it to anchor to edge, it takes over the whole of the screen and is anchored to the wrong side.

Cannot run program on my machine, I receive the following error:

$ ./discover.py
REQUIRES COMPOSITING

I'm running Manjaro with i3.
System details:

$ inxi -Gxx
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GM200 [GeForce GTX 980 Ti] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia v: 450.66 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           chip ID: 10de:17c8 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia resolution: 1: 1080x1920~60Hz 2: 2560x1440~60Hz s-dpi: 101 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 980 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 450.66 direct render: Yes 
$ uname -a
Linux Aether 5.4.64-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 9 18:26:19 UTC 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I launched the latest (pull from Github) from the command line since it didn't seem to work. The following is the output

INFO:root:Autostart info : desktop /home/cossu/.local/share/applications/discover_overlay.desktop auto None
INFO:root:Could not find monitor : None
INFO:root:Could not find monitor : None
INFO:root:Loading saved channel 741761057802158081
INFO:root:Could not find monitor : None
INFO:root:Could not find monitor : None
INFO:root:ID is 350229604365107211
INFO:root:Logged in as gjkf
INFO:root:Changing text room: 741761057802158081
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/cossu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/discover_overlay/discord_connector.py", line 399, in do_read
    self.on_message(msg)
  File "/home/cossu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/discover_overlay/discord_connector.py", line 266, in on_message
    self.add_text(message)
  File "/home/cossu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/discover_overlay/discord_connector.py", line 89, in add_text
    message["timestamp"], "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f%z")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/_strptime.py", line 559, in _strptime_time
    tt = _strptime(data_string, format)[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/_strptime.py", line 362, in _strptime
    (data_string, format))
ValueError: time data '2020-09-23T22:11:44.545Z' does not match format '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f%z'

After that, no matter what I do, the application won't respond.

EDIT: since in the settings window for the chat there was no text channel available to be selected, I modified the config in ~/.config/discover_overlay/config.ini to another text channel and restarted the application. It correctly loaded all the text channels but at the end, the same error appeared. When I started again discover_overlay while I was already in a voice room, it no longer loaded the text channels.

This goes strongly into nitpick-territory, but makes the look a bit less perfect:

The round avatar seems to be created by cutting of all pixels over the radius. Unfortunatly this creates a rough edge that looks pixelated.

Screenshot (upscaled 2x):

For comparison DiscordOverlay (where I assume a browser rendering engine is applying a bit of antialiasing):

A tickbox option to have discover autostart

Unless a different system for positional adjustment gets implemented (e.g. #28 ), it would be useful to be able to adjust the offset from horizontal (left and right) edges as well. Currently Edge padding only applies to vertical (top and bottom) padding.

Would it be possible to group the server list into different selections on the menu like one for server than one for the text channels within that server you have selected. I see that it kind of has them grouped anyway on the list but ive got quite a few servers and some have many text channels so scrolling through the entire list takes a long time.

When the settings window is open, it has no icon in the system tray

Now, even though Ubuntu 16.04 is officially supported by Canonical until 2021-04, you don't have to spend your time on supporting such an old distro at all and I will upgrade this computer eventually.

Out of the box, I had this issue:

Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
  File "/home/k/.local/bin/discover-overlay", line 5, in <module>                                                                                                                                                                                                     
    from discover_overlay.discover_overlay import entrypoint                                                                                                                                                                                                          
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discover_overlay/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>                                                                                                                                                                 
    from .discover_overlay import *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 19, in <module>                                                                                                                                                        
    import cairo                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
ImportError: No module named 'cairo'

After installing sudo apt-get install libcairo2 libcairo2-dev (as suggested here) I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/k/.local/bin/discover-overlay", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(entrypoint())
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 1077, in entrypoint
    main()
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 1055, in main
    create_gui()
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 997, in create_gui
    win = OverlayWindow()
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 662, in __init__
    self.set_untouchable()
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 731, in set_untouchable
    reg = Gdk.cairo_region_create_from_surface(surface)
KeyError: 'could not find foreign type Surface'

After installing sudo apt install python3-gi-cairo (as suggested here) I get:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Adding sudo apt install libgirepository1.0-dev still gave the segfault.

Let me know if you want me to try anything else or give you some information.

Currently if you open either voice or text overlay settings, click place window, position yellow box somewhere and then close the settings window, the yellow box remains until the settings window is reopened and "Save this position" is pressed.

Would be useful if when you close the settings window, it either saves the yellow window, opens a dialogue which asks you if you want to save it, or just removes the yellow window. I know which of these 3 will probably be implemented, but a man can dream.

Something to think about for the future. Could be super useful for all of those Linux streamers out there.
Alternatively, could probably just find a discord bot which hooks into twitch chat

Hey. One thing that stood out to me a bit (with this as well as DiscordOverlayLinux) is that there is a button labelled "close" whilst I'm used to it being labelled "Quit" or "Exit" instead. I feel that "close" is more related to partial terminations (closing a window) whilst "quit" and "exit" more clearly communicate that any related processes will be terminated.

I recommend looking at some application tray icons and surveying what they are labelled to come to your own conclusions. Here are mine:

Me again, experiencing any and all bugs that can possibly happen! Updated to release version 0.2 to play around with it a bit, but it seems to have introduced a new launch crash, giving the following output:

INFO:root:Autostart info : desktop /home/murdo/.local/share/applications/discover_overlay.desktop auto None
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/discover-overlay", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(entrypoint())
  File "/home/murdo/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 125, in entrypoint
    discover.main()
  File "/home/murdo/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 109, in main
    self.create_gui()
  File "/home/murdo/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 46, in create_gui
    self.menu = self.make_menu()
  File "/home/murdo/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discover_overlay/discover_overlay.py", line 74, in make_menu
    autostart_opt.set_active(self.a.is_auto())
TypeError: Argument 1 does not allow None as a value

I'm assuming it's some kind of error to do with not specifying any arguments, either in the launch command or somewhere in the code where it expects them.

Whenever there's any kind of tag (either a user or a role), the tag does not show the correct name, but the id, as follows

This is what is supposed to be showed:

When playing a game that disables the compositor, the overlay is turned into a huge chunk of black space that covers off part the screen on the side it is set to be at.

Would be useful to be able to set a custom time out time for messages

I think settings for text channels need a notable disconnect from voice settings. To this end I propose that the text channel settings get a window to themselves

I'm on KDE Neon and xdg isn't included by default. I went over and installed it with sudo apt install python3-xdg, but I'm getting an error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xdg.BaseDirectory'

Some commands...
pip3 freeze | grep xdg

pyxdg==0.26
xdg==4.0.1

Here ran python3, imported xdg and then typed xdg. and double-tapped Tab:

xdg.HOME             xdg.Path(            xdg.XDG_CONFIG_HOME  xdg.XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
xdg.List(            xdg.XDG_CACHE_HOME   xdg.XDG_DATA_DIRS    xdg.os
xdg.Optional(        xdg.XDG_CONFIG_DIRS  xdg.XDG_DATA_HOME   

Changing line 20 to the following fixes the issues for me.
from xdg import XDG_CONFIG_HOME as xdg_config_home

An option to only show recently received messages and not keep a log when chat is inactive would make the overlay feel less cluttered

Currently, joining an AFK channel doesn't show the user as muted or deafened etc.
Not sure whether it should?

We'll need at least a bash script or something to aid users in installation

I tried installing this in a fresh virtualenv, but noticed that requests was used, but not specified in the requirements:

Apart from that everything seems to be working fine on Debian Testing KDE

i think there seems to be a problem when installing this, this is the output

output
i hope u can help me with this

Would be pretty neat to have Mumble integration. Could even support positional audio visually perhaps?
e.g. someone on the left of you in game appears on that side of the screen, someone ahead at the centre top etc...

I was fiddling with the settings and found that changing the avatar size makes the program crash, sometimes the first time, always the second time you add/decrement the value.

pix is None on line 194, but then when draw_avatar_pix is run, self.def_avatar is also None, so it throws the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/Projects/Discover/discover_overlay/voice_overlay.py", line 124, in draw
    self.do_draw(context)
  File "/home/user/Projects/Discover/discover_overlay/voice_overlay.py", line 154, in do_draw
    self.draw_avatar(context, user, rh)
  File "/home/user/Projects/Discover/discover_overlay/voice_overlay.py", line 198, in draw_avatar
    self.draw_avatar_pix(
  File "/home/user/Projects/Discover/discover_overlay/voice_overlay.py", line 254, in draw_avatar_pix
    Gdk.cairo_set_source_pixbuf(context, pixbuf, x, y)
TypeError: Argument 1 does not allow None as a value
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/Projects/Discover/discover_overlay/voice_overlay.py", line 124, in draw
    self.do_draw(context)
  File "/home/user/Projects/Discover/discover_overlay/voice_overlay.py", line 154, in do_draw
    self.draw_avatar(context, user, rh)
  File "/home/user/Projects/Discover/discover_overlay/voice_overlay.py", line 198, in draw_avatar
    self.draw_avatar_pix(
  File "/home/user/Projects/Discover/discover_overlay/voice_overlay.py", line 254, in draw_avatar_pix
    Gdk.cairo_set_source_pixbuf(context, pixbuf, x, y)
TypeError: Argument 1 does not allow None as a value
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/Projects/Discover/discover_overlay/voice_overlay.py", line 154, in do_draw
    self.draw_avatar(context, user, rh)
  File "/home/user/Projects/Discover/discover_overlay/voice_overlay.py", line 198, in draw_avatar
    self.draw_avatar_pix(
  File "/home/user/Projects/Discover/discover_overlay/voice_overlay.py", line 254, in draw_avatar_pix
    Gdk.cairo_set_source_pixbuf(context, pixbuf, x, y)
TypeError: Argument 1 does not allow None as a value
python3: ../../../../src/cairo.c:524: cairo_destroy: Assertion `CAIRO_REFERENCE_COUNT_HAS_REFERENCE (&cr->ref_count)' failed.

Please add some sanity to the channel selector in the Text Settings

After setting up a text channel - floating, enabled etc, it works as expected.

However, When "Popup Style" is ticked, no text is shown even when messages are received.

Using Manjaro gnome

Just as the title says. Happens with the latest version of Discord.