This is a recreation of the gnome-shell hamster extension as a xfce4 panel plugin. See also the hamster project: https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster
Dependencies: xfce4-panel xfconf hamster-applet|hamster-time-tracker
Build dependencies[debian, ubuntu]: libxfce4ui-2-dev libxfce4panel-2.0-dev libxfconf-0-dev libxfce4util-dev
Common: build-essential cmake intltool
Tested on Arch with xfce 4.16, Ubuntu 20.04 with xfce 4.14 and Debian Buster with xfce 4.12. Uses GTK+3 only, requires APIs that are not available before xfce 4.10. Support for older versions are in available in the git history. Also seen running on Alpine and void (musl).
It is my wish that the string 'What goes on?' is to be translated with the following bias:
I'm looking for a question that is half way between "too formal" and "too casual", like something a coworker would ask, but not a boss or a kid; something that exceeds the simple "What are you doing?". Feel free to employ any appropriate figure of speech unique to your language.
Checkout as outlined under Contribution below, cd to the directory and
issue cmake -B build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr. If this fails, install any missing
dependencies and repeat until success.
Finally, issue cmake --build build && sudo cmake --install build.
Restart the xfce4 panel with xfce4-panel -r.
This plug-in is useless without an activatable D-Bus implementation of
org.gnome.Hamster and org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer. Hence the
providers of these interfaces should be a hard dependency, even if
any automated check might detect these as unused.
Binary distributions do not necessarily provide D-Bus-Depends and
D-Bus-provides kind of tags for automatic dependency resolution.
If your distribution doesn't, maybe its time to push the issue.
The icon from hamster is reused as org.gnome.Hamster.GUI.
The generated .lo files are best purged since no linkage or development packages are provided.
- Fork this project
- Create a topic branch -
git checkout -b my_branch - Push to your branch -
git push origin my_branch - Submit a Pull Request with your branch
- That's it!
Patches are most welcome, especially translations. I'd like to thank the following translators:
- Pavel Borecki
- Sergey Panasenko
- Nicolas Reynolds
- fauno