… yes that venerable old desktop-toy from years ago, has finally found a new permanent repository-home again… after enough people poked me about it. I also updated the related project-page on launchpad. In the early days it used to live on people.freedesktop.org/~macslow/cairo-clock (or something like that).

Thanks to the wonders of git the whole commit-history is still intact.

Looking at that code-base makes me want to redo it all… or update the build-system (CMake or Meson) and move to gtk+ 3.x at least. But maybe someone beats me to it (hint: pull-requests welcome) although I hardly expect much feedback.

While thinking about it, porting it to C++ or Haskell would do the code-base well. If I would do it again there days, it would probably end up as C++ using Qt/QML… and be 3D (because QML just makes it too easy to throw in OpenGL 🙂

Here some screencast for nostalgia’s sake…