Gramplet to display historical events with the year they happened, and optionally the year they ended.
A double-click on a row will open your browser at the provided Link
The gramplet works on the People and the Relationship Category view and will use the birth and death of the active person.
If either of the dates are missing the gramplet assumes a life span of 100 years
The data for the gramplet comes from a CSV file, which can be edited with a normal editor.
The Format is:
from;to;event;link to event
example:
1789;1797;George Washington;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington
The file name is <locale>_data_v1_0.txt e.g. da_DK_data_v1_0.txt for Denmark
Currently only four files are provided, da_DK_data_v1_0.txt and en_US_data_v1_0.txt which simply is a list of American presidents.
The third is deafult_data_v1_0.txtwhich will be used, if there isn't any data file for your language.
The fourth file is custom_v1_0.txtwhich can be used for adding your own data, which will be merged into the view.
The options can be accessed by the settings for the view:
1 This string can be used to filter out text. If you set this to "Cen" all lines where the tect starts with "Cen" will be filtered out (e.g.Census as well as "Century"
2 If you check this box, your filter will be active
3 This checkbox decides whether you will see all events or only those in your cative persons life span
4 File name for the file, which holds the events. If you have created a custom file named custom_v1_0.txt this will be merged into the list.
5 The foreground color for lines within a persons life span. There is a lot of applications, which let you convert a chosen colour to a HTML text string. I use KcolorChooser
6 The background colour for lines within the active persons life span
7 The foreground colour for lines outside the active persons life span
8 The background colour for lines outside the active persons life span