Merlin's Clock Applet
- A GNOME panel applet that displays the time or date.
Copyright (C) 1999 Merlin Hughes
- merlin@merlin.org
- http://nitric.com/freeware/

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Street #330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

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Version: 0.1.0
Date: 1999/05/09

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COMPILING:

. Unpack the source:
  tar xfz merlin-clock-0.1.0.tgz

. Make the applet:
  cd merlin-clock-0.1.0/
  make mode:=release
    OR
  make mode:=debug

. Install the applet:
  make install
    OR (for RedHat)
  make prefix=/usr sysconfdir=/etc install

. Start up the applet:
  Choose Add Applet->Utility->Merlin's Clock Applet in your GNOME panel.

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TODO:

. Have it pick up the panel background colour automatically.
. Have it pick up the panel background pixmap and offset automatically.
. Add a shape option so it is just the text on a transparent background.
. Make it rotate 180 when the panel is on the left.
. Configurable toggle delay.
. Bugfixes?
. Clean up code.
. Add optional 3D border.

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PHILOSOPHY:

. I'm a tvtwmer.
. That's just how I am.
. On Friday, I upgraded from plaine aulde X to GNOME and enlightnment.
. On Friday, I suffered pain.
. You see, I'm stuck with '97 technology and my laptop only does 800x600.
. On Saturday, I wrote a tvtwm theme for enlightenment.
. Yes, I understand that's not the right thing to do but...
. On Sunday, I wrote a clock.
. On Monday, I'll start on a new panner. Pager, in GNOMEspeak.
. And a ppp thing.
. And a launcher.
. Then, I'll be happier.
. Expect these and more minimalist toys from me in the future.

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CREDITS:

. Ruthlessly adopted and adapted from Nat Friedman's battery monitor.
