Notice: Timer Applet is at a point where I feel it is fairly feature-complete for a simple countdown timer. I don't plan to devote too much more time developing it, except to fix bugs, and perhaps implement simple enhancements that I think are important for usability.
Highlights
- Quickly set a timer and be notified when it finishes
- Unobtrusive notification that does not interrupt your work, but keeps you aware that the timer has finished
- Create presets for quick access to frequently-used times
- Add multiple Timer Applets to the panel to have different timers running simultaneously
- D-Bus support provides programmatic access to Timer Applet instances (the D-Bus API is brand new, so it may change to accomodate more usage scenarios)
Requirements
- Python 2.4 and ElementTree OR Python 2.5 (which already includes ElementTree)
- python-gtk 2.10 or newer
- python-gnome 2.16 or newer
- python-gnome-desktop 2.16 or newer
- python-glade 2.10 or newer
- python-notify 0.1 or newer
- python-dbus 0.80 or newer
Installation
- Unpack the source
- Open up a terminal
- cd /path/to/timer-applet/
- ./configure --prefix=/usr (on most distributions of Linux, applets must be installed with /usr as the prefix)
- make
- As root: make install
- Log out and then log in again to make Timer Applet show up in the list of available panel applets
Bug Reports
Please file bug reports using the bug tracker.
Feature Requests
You can request features using the feature request tracker, but keep in mind that it is unlikely that I'll be implementing any major new features (please refer to the notice at the top of the page for more information).
Author
- name:
- Jimmy Do
- email:
- jimmydo@users.sourceforge.net
- blog:
- http://jimmydo.wordpress.com/