Improved UX a bit: all threads are immediately started;

no more slow starting of modules.

Although I'm highly unsatisfied with the current implementation
(SoC, you hear me!?)

i3pystatus/__init__.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import sys
 import threading
 
 from .core import util, io
-from .core.modules import *
+from .core.modules import Module, AsyncModule, IntervalModule, START_HOOKS
 from .core.settings import SettingsBase
 from .core.config import ConfigFinder
 
@@ -43,7 +43,12 @@ class Status:
                 if module:
                     module.on_click(j["button"])
 
+    def call_start_hooks(self):
+        for hook in START_HOOKS:
+            hook()
+
     def run(self):
+        self.call_start_hooks()
         for j in io.JSONIO(self.io).read():
             for module in self.modules:
                 module.inject(j)

i3pystatus/core/modules.py

@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ class IntervalModule(Module):
             am.append(self)
             IntervalModule.managers[self.interval] = am
 
+    @classmethod
+    def _start(cls):
+        for manager in cls.managers.values():
+            manager.start()
+
     def __call__(self):
         self.run()
 
@@ -65,3 +70,7 @@ class IntervalModule(Module):
 
         Do not rely on this being called from the same thread at all times.
         If you need to always have the same thread context, subclass AsyncModule."""
+
+START_HOOKS = (
+    IntervalModule._start,
+)

i3pystatus/core/threads.py

@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ class AutomagicManager:
 
         initial_thread = Thread(target_interval, [self.wrap(self)])
         self.threads = [initial_thread]
-        initial_thread.start()
 
     def __call__(self):
         separate = []
@@ -126,3 +125,7 @@ class AutomagicManager:
 
     def append(self, workload):
         self.threads[0].append(self.wrap(workload))
+
+    def start(self):
+        for thread in self.threads:
+            thread.start()

setup.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 
 setup(name="i3pystatus",
-      version="3.9",
+      version="3.10",
       description="Like i3status, this generates status line for i3bar / i3wm",
       url="http://github.com/enkore/i3pystatus",
       license="MIT",