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16 August 2008 16:15

MacSlow’s Cairo-Clock

MacSlow’s Cairo-Clock created at February 7th, 2006 | Contents What’s it about? What does it currently look like? What’s themes are available? How to install/make custom themes? What’s needed in order to run? What quirks will be encountered? FAQ or “But what if… ?” Where do I download a version for my system from? What can be expected in the future? What’s it about? It’s an analog clock displaying the system-time. “So what?”, you might say, “There are about 1.023.493 of those already out there!”. Indeed there are and probably some more, but this one is a bit different. It leverages the new visual features offered by Xorg 7.0 in combination with a compositing-manager (e.g. compiz), gtk+ 2.10.x, cairo 1.2.0 and librsvg 2.14.0 to produce a time-display with pretty-pixels. What does it currently look like? Have a look at these screencasts of the current release. The left one shows new features and the right one goes through all themes coming with the 0.3.3 release…