Release to fix a few things:

• Fixed unintended dependency on Python 2.5 (thanks to Diego Zamboni)
• Added version number to About dialog
• Fixed problem where multiple Continue Timer dialogs would be created if you clicked on a paused timer multiple times
• Fixed problem where you could pause/stop/restart or start a timer while the Continue Timer dialog was open
• Updated translations: de, fr
• Added a translation: zh_CN

• Re-written in Python
• Countdown animation with a "pie" meter
• One-click selection of timer presets
• Streamlined saving of new presets
• Cleaner first-time experience with the Start Timer dialog
• After a timer finishes, periodically redisplay the notification bubble until the user stops the timer
• GConf option for notification beep using internal speakers (this needs verification because my computer doesn't have an internal speaker to test with)
• D-Bus API
• New icon

If you'd like to see me ramble more about Timer Applet 2.0, you can check out my blog entry. It also contains a quick example of how to use the D-Bus API.

• Allow disabling libnotify support with ./configure --disable-libnotify (Mikel Olasagasti)
• Fixed warning about datarootdir when running ./configure
• New translations: Catalan (ca), Occitan (oc)

This is going to be the last version of Timer Applet...written in C. ;) I've been porting Timer Applet to Python on my free time, so all future work will be on the Python version. This release is just to tie up a few loose ends in the C version.

Why re-write it in Python? Mainly, I've been wanting to refactor Timer Applet for a long time, and since it would probably involve a lot of changes anyway, I decided to just re-write the whole thing in Python. It also gives me a chance to play with a new programming language. :)

Python is nice because it has such low overhead--much less typing to achieve the same results as the corresponding C code. I'm mostly happy with Python. Only thing is, I miss static typing!

If you need to contact me, please use my new email. Because of a mixture of sleepiness, changing of passwords, and my absentmindedness, I no longer have access to my previous email account. :)

• Specify icon for notification bubble
• Fixes time strings to use locale-specific format
• Make Hours spinbutton be the initially-focused widget whenever the Start Timer dialog opens
• New translations: Bengali (bn), Danish (da), Greek (el), UK English (en_GB), Irish (ga), Norwegian Bokmål (nb)
• Few minor bug fixes