Re: gnome alarm clock / egg timer?

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:25:23PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote:
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 13:56, Russell L. Harris wrote:
* Tyler MacDonald <tyler@xxxxxx> [071009 12:49]:
Is there some sort of simple application out there for GNOME that acts
like an egg timer? You know, i enter in an amount of time, can watch it
tick down, and have it make some sort of loud obnoxious sound when it's
done?
...

About a year ago I tried sanduhr ("sand clock"), but I didn't manage
to get it working right.

I shall be watching this thread with interest; I also need a good egg
timer.

RLH
I did a cursory look around as I recall there was exactly such an applet
available (gnome I think) several years ago. Couldn't find it anywhere.
However from the FYI category; in the overkill subsection; there is "Gourmet"
a complete recipe management system that I have been using for a couple of
years that does have such a timer built in. It is available as a debian
package & I currently have it running on Etch.

I wonder why there is no KDE or gnome applet for a simple timer.

I haven't used it, but the following app (on a sid box) sounds like it fits
the criteria:

$ apt-cache search timer
...
timer-applet - timer applet - a countdown timer applet for the GNOME panel

$ apt-cache show timer-applet
Package: timer-applet
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
...
Description: timer applet - a countdown timer applet for the GNOME panel
Features include:
.
* Quickly set a time and the applet will notify you when time is up
* Create presets for quick access to frequently-used times
* Small and unobtrusive. Choose to either view the remaining time right in
the panel or hide it so you don't get distracted by the countdown.
* Add multiple Timer Applets to the panel to have multiple timers running
simultaneously
* User interface follows the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines


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Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@xxxxxxx


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