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ccj@griskroppen
July 25th, 2005, 03:19 PM
Hi,

As a hello world project with panel applets and GTK, I hacked a binary clock applet
that docks into the gnome panel. Feel free to download from
http://www.foolsquest.net/ccj/ccbinclock/

Experienced GTK-programmers are welcome to tell me what I did horribly wrong,
especially wrt memory management. Not-so-experienced GTK-programmers are
welcome to just use it.

In the great tradition of binary clocks, it isn't useful, just cute.

cillian
April 8th, 2006, 10:51 PM
I searched and searched for a binary clock that would work in a gnome panel and was delighted to find yours. It seemed to take a while for it to appear in the applications you can add to the panel but that's probably a gnome thing.

What can I say .. I absolutely love it ... thank you!

ice60
April 9th, 2006, 05:01 AM
i like it but, to me your example looks like 18 and not 45 lol, i'd never know what time it is, not that i know anyway, i think i need a new CMOS battery my clock lost an hour in 24 hours ](*,)

potrick
April 12th, 2006, 08:55 PM
Love the applet. Uselessly amazing.

jimmyxx
January 3rd, 2007, 08:55 PM
fabulous! i love it!

macogw
January 3rd, 2007, 10:17 PM
Aw they're not useless...my watch is in binary :)

The only thing I can see iffy about it operates under the assumption that the background color of your panel is off-white (the default color). Mine is semi-transparent, so the clock gets a white background. If I make my panel blue, the background of the clock stays white. But then, I don't know anything about gtk and would have no idea how to give it a dynamic or transparent background anyway *shrug* good job on it, though! I like binary stuff!