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MyTime: free software to improve time management

May 30, 2008 on 3:22 pm | In Online Desktop, English, Planet, GNOME, MyTime | 2 Comments

This week we’ve released MyTime project, this project try to be a system to monitoring your time while you’re using a computer, providing a graphical user interface that generates different kind of charts with information about what applications you use in your computer.

Moreover in the following phases we’re going to try to integrate this project with Online Desktop trying to store information about application use remotely so that you can query information about your time everywhere.

The project is been developed by some people from Igalia engineering group: Antonio, Diego, Quique, Iván, Chema, Loren, Xavi and me.

Among other technologies MyTime uses:

• GTK+ and Glade for the graphical interface.
• GObject for data server and model logic implementation.
• D-Bus usage for communication between components.
• SQLite database system for local data management.

You can read more information about the project in its home page at Igalia community. Furthermore the project has its own page at SourceForge.net where you can find mailing lists, forums, and SVN repository of the project.

There’re a lot of things todo, however feel free to test MyTime and give us your feedback, we’ll be very happy.

We’ll keep you informed of news in this project.

Testing Online Desktop on Hardy Heron: Quick Guide

April 28, 2008 on 5:09 pm | In Online Desktop, English, Planet, GNOME | 2 Comments

I’ve been testing Online Desktop the last days on an Ubuntu distribution.

I’ve followed the instructions from OnlineDesktop/Jhbuild, but with these instructions you need to compile 101 modules, it’s quite slow, moreover you can find some problems in different modules that aren’t stables. I need to upgrade to Hardy Heron 8.04 to can finish my compilation.

However, thanks to Dape, I’ve found another solution to test Online Desktop faster only compiling 6 modules: hippo-canvas, local-export-daemon, desktop-data-model, online-desktop, bigboard and mugshot-client.
Maybe this isn’t the best way to test Online Desktop, but it’s very quickly for a simple test.

Next I’m going to relate instructions needed to test Online Desktop on an Ubuntu Hardy Heron distribution.

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