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asclock - afterstep clock
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RELEASE 2.0 beta 11
March-13, 1999
Copyright (C) Beat Christen, spiff@longstreet.ch
Copyright (C) Patrick Rogan, rogan@lycos.com
COPYING
This is GPL2 software. Read the file COPYING for infos!
THIS VERSION
The very special new feature is the possibility to completely
construct your own clock look. You are always welcome to send in
asclock themes for distribution with the main package. For infos
on how to build a new theme, have a look at README.THEMES
Please note, that there is also a GTK version. Find out more
about what this is, here:
http://www.gtk.org
And even an applet for the gnome desktop: See the link below for
more infos!
http://www.gnome.org
The theme features will be included in the gtk and applet version
asap.
AVAILABILITY
the latest releases should be available from
http://www.asclock.org/tar/
All other flavours of asclock are also maintained there.
INSTALL
1. Check in the Imakefile if all LIBS are ok for your system.
2. `configure`
3. `make` (Send me the output if this fails)
4. make install
5. copy everything in the themes directory to either
/usr/local/share/asclock/ or /usr/share/asclock/
FEEDBACK
Please send me language customized 'month.xpm' and 'weekday.xpm' files.
I prefer uuencoded mail.
AUTHORS
Beat Christen
Patrick Rogan
CONTRIBUTORS
wmaker-dockability: Alfredo K. Kojima
themes: Pat Rogan
low-network-
bandwidth-patch: Tim Phipps
close-color-matching-
patch: Patrick Rogan
year-display-patch: Nick Vargish
dynamic xpm Fredrik Hallenberg
loading
Shape Extensions Dan Weeks
and man page
language specific Carlos Canau
files Frank Larsen
Andy Lo A Foe
Dan Weeks
Emanuele Caratti
Jorgen Pehrson
Vadim V. Klimenko (vadim@max.odessa.ua)
Alexey L. Yarovinsky" <aleshka@cortext.co.il>
and many more. look at the changes for the
respective names.
CHANGES
28-May-99 - corrected a little bug that messed up the date.
- removed analog theme since that one is not usable.
13-Mar-99 - beats functionality added
- Orb & beats theme added
- some config-file changes
19-Feb-99 - new config file format for themes
some functions disappeared from the command-line.
If you insist on them, tell me.
09-Nov-98 - hebrew and japanese added
08-Nov-98 - themes concept implemented
thanks to Pat Rogan for pushing me this way!
26-Sep-98 - applied different patches supplied by Tim Phipps, Patrick
Rogan, Nick Vargish
Thanks to all authors for keeping those patches coming!!!
11-Apr-98 - loadable xpm's...
15-May-97 - slovene added
10-Dec-96 - ukrainian & russian added
26-Aug-96 - czech added
13-Aug-96 - french added
6-Aug-96 - spanish added (thanks to David Lazaro Saz khelekir@encomix.es)
- hungarian added
(thanks to Gyula Matics mgyula@garfield.sch.bme.hu)
- breton added (thanks to Jean-Pierre.Messager@univ-brest.fr)
30-Jul-96 - ClassHints added (patch by Peter Parnes peppar@cdt.luth.se)
23-Jul-96 - swedish added (by Jorgen Pehrson d93jpe@blg.du.se)
4-Jul-96 - italian added (by Emanuele Caratti)
- improved configure
21-Jun-96 - '-iconic' state added
- usleep did not exist on Solaris 2.4: changed to poll()
- better error messages
8-Jun-96 - '-noblink' feature added
- final switch to imake
30-May-96 - am/pm should not show 0:00 am/pm but 12:00 am/pm
- portuguese weekday resized
- man page (by Dan Weeks)
25-May-96 - '-geometry' is now '-position' and it _works_ !!!
- in AM/PM mode, no leading one was visible...
- '-led' command line option added
24-May-96 - asclock can start an executable: as default you get a
message on console
- command line options added (-exe, -geometry, -shape, -12, -24)
- Shape-Extension (by Dan Weeks)
- now it's a Build script
- dutch added (by Andy Lo A Foe <arloafoe@cs.vu.nl>)
- norwegian added (by Frank Larsen <frankrl@stud.cs.uit.no>)
22-May-96 - obscure, not necessary XRaiseWindow removed :)
- error-message if Xpm-conversion failed
- name changed to 'afterstep clock'
- blinking optimized
- color selection in Configure
- color led added (by James Robinson <jimr@simons-rock.edu>)
- portuguese added (by Carlos Canau <canau@dawn.EUnet.pt>)
- Makefile improvements
- Configure is now for sh
20-May-96 - english support added (by Dan Weeks <dan@mango.sfasu.edu>)
- Language configure script
- german weekday widened to same size as english...
- Makefile changes for Solaris
18-May-96 - 8bit greyscale support added
- slightly moved the time-led's
- no bmclock directory was created while decompressing
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