eye-candy of the other kind

[MacSlow]

Greetings everybody!

I think this might be of interest to some of you who are running Linux and a nvidia-graphics card with a recent driver. For those of you living under a rock (in terms of new development in the domain of X11) there are a few new things possible for desktop-UI under Linux... or well systems using Xorg 6.9/7.0. Take a look here (http://macslow.mine.nu/?p=28). A small screenshot to wet you appetite:

http://macslow.mine.nu/shots/cairo-clock-2.png

Best regards...

MacSlow

[MacSlow]

I made a new release (0.2) that improves rendering- and resizing-speed, allows you to fully customize the looks of the clock (via SVG-files) and offers command-line options for the initial window-size and the refresh-interval.

http://macslow.mine.nu/projects/cairo-clock/cairo-clock-4.png

Direct download-links:
0.2 release tarball (http://macslow.mine.nu/projects/cairo-clock/cairo-clock-0.2.tar.bz2) (MD5SUM (http://macslow.mine.nu/projects/cairo-clock/cairo-clock-0.2.tar.bz2.md5sum))

Over the last few days since the inital release it spread a bit on the net:

project homepage (http://macslow.mine.nu/?page_id=29)
its entry at gnomefiles.org (http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=1259)
its entry at gnome-look.org (http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=34256)
its entry at freshmeat.net (http://freshmeat.net/projects/macslows-cairo-clock)
its entry at linux.softpedia.com (http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/Tools/MacSlow-s-Cairo-Clock-9114.shtml)

Tell me how you like it and what you dislike. If you made a funky new theme for it send me your SVG-files. I'm planning to add further support for themes in the next versions and would like to ship a few good looking skins users can choose from in the future. Also make sure to take a look at the TODO, NEWS and README files.

Best regards...

MacSlow

[gnutux]

heh, to me, it's quite useless, nice work though. I just find no use for it.

My opinion of course ;)

gnutux

[MacSlow]

heh, to me, it's quite useless, nice work though. I just find no use for it.

My opinion of course ;)

gnutux

Hey no problem, gnutux. No offense taken :)

Best regards...

MacSlow

[MacSlow]

I made a 0.3 release looking like this...

http://macslow.mine.nu/shots/cairo-clock-6.png

Grab it if you like from here (http://macslow.mine.nu/?page_id=29#mark_8), here (http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=1259), here (http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=34256), or here (http://freshmeat.net/projects/macslows-cairo-clock).

Best regards...

MacSlow

[MacSlow]

I moved my blog here (http://macslow.thepimp.net). The new home of cairo-clock is now this one (http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=23).

If you're a bit into coding and like to get to know new bits and pieces of the current Linux graphics-stack for desktop-UI, checkout this recent blog-entry (http://macslow.thepimp.net/?p=60) and screencast...

http://macslow.thepimp.net/shots/small_cairo-dock-6.png (http://macslow.thepimp.net/clips/cairo-dock-6.ogg)
(codec: ogg/theora, size: ~1.2 MBytes)

Best regards...

MacSlow