Re: Help with a tcl/tk gui thing..

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 [off-list ref]:

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
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