How's this? git clone git://mika.l3ib.org/tracker.git I wrote it in pygtk since I know zero to no tcl/tk, hope that's okay. It has a label with the time remaining (simply read from the daemon file), and shows the text in red if less than 10% is remaining. You'll need to change the ./ in cb_function to /var/log/tracker since I forgot to change that and I'm lazy :). 2008/10/1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Ok, this is ridiculous, and has nothing to do with git apart from being > hosted in it, but I thought I'd send out an email about it since the git > community is the only one I know that does any GUI work at all... > > I've got three girls, all wasting their time on their computer, and we set > up this rule that they get to have a maximum of an hour of internet time > each day. Of course, being the geek I am, I wrote a stupid time tracker > for that purpose, and then totally forgot about it. > > Until the harddisk in their computer broke down, and I had to re-install, > and realized that I didn't have a copy of my stupid tracker sources > anywhere. So I had to re-write it, and to make sure that I didn't lose it > _again_, I put it in a git repo this time, and now have it on my desktop > machine. > > I _also_ have it on kernel.org, because I tend to change machines often > enough that files get lost because I decide that switching machines is > also a great way of doing "generational GC" on my home directory. > > [ iow, I copy my old home directory as "old-home" when I switch machines, > and anything I didn't end up copying by the time I switch machines > again, just gets deleted. Very neat, and a great way to lose things that > you only care about every other year or so. ] > > Whatever. > > To make a long story short, I have a very small program that does all the > tracking, and I have no problems with that. It doesn't have much of a > admin interface, but I can do "echo 3600 > /var/log/tracker/celeste" to > reset the time etc. _I_ have no need for pretty GUI's. > > But I also have a UI that the kids can run to _see_ how much time they > have left, so that getting thrown off the machine doesn't come as a total > surprise. And yesterday Patricia asked why it has to be that ugly. And I > had to admit that her dad is just not very good at UI's - and my > re-implementation may in fact have been EVEN UGLIER than my original > version. If that is even possible. > > But hey, I'm not above impressing my kids with pretty bling if I can get > somebody else who actually knows what they are doing to enhance my wish > scripts to something reasonable. > > Anybody? > > The repository is at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/tracker.git > > if somebody knows how to make the text turn red when the end is near > and/or make it have some nice graphical bar that fills up as time is about > to expire. > > And if nobody does, no worries. At least I tried. My kids can continue to > watch ugly/small/monochrome fonts with just a count-down clock. > > Linus > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Mikael Magnusson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
