Re: How to get rid of kalarm AND promote zenity plus good tool usage

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 01:37 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 20:26 +0200, Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> > Just seen the following conversation on IRC (#gnome channel):
> > 
> > <shaunm_> how do I get rid of kalarm
> > <shaunm_> oh wily little kalarmd
> > <pycage> #! /bin/sh
> > <pycage>                                                                                
> > <pycage> TIMEOUT=$(zenity --entry --text="Enter timeout:" --entry-text="3m")
> > <pycage> sleep $TIMEOUT
> > <pycage> zenity --info --text="Alarm!"
> > 
> > In my opinion this tiny script suggested by psydave should be included
> > into the very next release of the GNOME Desktop, because:
> > 
> > 1) It prevents people from asking for some kalarm replacement
> > 2) Promotes zenity
> > 3) Demonstrates how to solve such trivial tasks
> > 
> > 
> > --> snip: the script in plain text --> ---------------------------------
> > 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > #
> > # Some tiny script simulating kalarm and promoting zenity
> > # Author: psydave
> > #
> > 
> > TIMEOUT=$(zenity --entry --text="Enter timeout:" --entry-text="3m")
> > sleep $TIMEOUT
> > zenity --info --text="Alarm!"
> > 
> 
> FWIW, I wasn't trying to replace kalarm.  I tried it out because someone
> in the channel was looking for a gnome-ish replacement, and I wanted to
> see what it was like.  I set up an alarm to recur every five minutes,
> just to play.  Then I closed kalarm.  In another few minutes, there was
> that alarm.  So I was more asking "how do I stop this thing, which I've
> already closed?"  The answer, of course, was to kill kalarmd.
> 
> That said, I have a warm spot in my heart for wicked cool shell scripts.
> 
> That said, while this is cool for geeks, if an alarm system is really
> wanted as default functionality in the desktop, a real interface should
> be designed and implemented for it.
> 
right. XD used to have that functionality in the clock applet. Maybe
that could be re-added.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>