Alarm Clock

Hello alarm-clock contributors and users,

After a long period of being unmaintained, I am thrilled to announce that alarm-clock has a new maintainer: @tatokis!

You may have noticed a recent burst of activity in the project, with lots of improvements, bug fixes, and even a new 0.4.1 release! All of these developments are thanks to @tatokis.

New maintainer

As the original creator of alarm-clock, it makes me very happy to hand over the maintainership to @tatokis. He has already made significant contributions to the code base, including porting the project to Gtk 3, GSettings, GtkApplication, GActions and a more modern CMake build system. All of these improvements should also enable alarm-clock-applet to be packaged in modern Linux distributions. I am confident that the project will thrive under his leadership.

Note: The maintainership was handed over in Nov 2022, but I felt it was appropriate with an official announcement. My apologies for the delay in making this announcement.

GitHub Release

This release fixes numerous issues and removes all legacy dependencies. The minimum supported Ubuntu version is now 18.04.

Major Changes:

• The application has been ported to GTK 3, and will thus look slightly different.
• Old GTK Tray Icon support has been removed. A desktop environment with support for AppIndicators/StatusNotifierItem is required.
• Alarms have been migrated to GSettings.

Notable Fixes:

• Many memory leaks (including a massive one while the UI was visible)
• Alarm labels bouncing horizontally every second
• Debug messages breaking alarms and timers
• Compile errors

New Features:

• Default media players are now autodetected.
• More media players can be controlled using playerctl out of the box.
• More system sounds are now added to the list by default.

Full Changelog:

0.3.4…0.4.1

Notes for package maintainers:

Many dependencies have changed and the project is now built with CMake. If available, please build with GConf2 support enabled so that people can migrate any old alarms they might have, even if they built from source previously. If possible, also add playerctl as an optional/recommended dependency; its presence is detected at runtime.

What happened to 0.4.0?

It was meant to be tagged right before the major rewrite/porting work started, however it was tagged at the wrong commit by accident, and is thus now ignored.

Unfortunately, this project is no longer maintained. If you're interested in maintaining Alarm Clock, please get in touch: joh@pseudoberries.com

Alarm Clock has officially moved to GitHub: https://github.com/joh/alarm-clock
All bugs have been migrated as well: https://github.com/joh/alarm-clock/issues

Blueprints have not yet been moved. Selected ones may be moved to the wiki in the future.

The Launchpad project is still used for translations.
Launchpad has been configured to automatically import changes from GitHub.

This is a bug fix release:

Bugs fixed:
1122500 - Don't cancel the next alarm if alarm triggers a day late
1137453 - Port to GStreamer 1.0

Please see the ChangeLog for more details.

This release includes minor improvements and various bug fixes:

* Set app indicator title

Bugs fixed:
290733 - Automatically detect daylight savings time
800635 - Let the WM decide the initial position of the list window
823585 - Check that media player was created successfully
908636 - Don't show notifications when alarms are stopped/snoozed
885059 - Update timestamp when type is changed for active alarms
977110 - Use segment seeks to prevent playback delays when looping
824337 - Enable alarm when closing the Edit alarm dialog

Please see the ChangeLog for more details.

Your favorite alarm clock receives good reviews from Linux Insider: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72116.html

This release adds support for application indicators and includes various bug fixes:

* Add support for application indicators
* Countdown label for application indicator
* New status icon indicating triggered alarms

Bugs fixed:
565302 - Add countdown label (for application indicator)
610632 - Create ~/.config/autostart if it doesn't exist
671962 - Add support for libnotify 0.7
682999 - Properly stop triggered alarms that are not playing sound
704956 - Add support for application indicators
706832 - Clicking on status icon should bring up list instead of snoozing

Please see the ChangeLog for more details.

This release includes minor improvements and bug fixes:

* Properly toggle alarm-list-window
* Parse command-line options
* Add --hidden command-line flag
* Start --hidden on autostart

Bugs fixed:

558559 - Double-clicking on alarm erratically changes alarm time/duration
559514 - The alarms list window should be shown when launching the application
559531 - Remember the alarms list window position
567564 - repeat once: checkbox does not work in gtk+ 2.20
567762 - deleting running alarm doesn't cancel them

Please see the ChangeLog for more details.

This is the first major release since 0.2 and it includes many improvements and bug fixes:

* Alarm Clock has moved to the notification area and can be started as a normal application
* An option to autostart Alarm Clock on log in has been added
* Blink icon when an alarm is triggered
* General User Interface improvements
* Improvements to the alarm list window
* Add sorting of the alarm list
* Notify bubble improvements - remove per-alarm notify bubble settings
* Snooze improvements - global snooze settings, enable snooze for timers
* Add translation support - translations are now done in Launchpad

Bugs fixed:

243153 - No hint bubble when there is a "&" sign in the label
334684 - Notification needs to be improved in jaunty
421098 - Source code an Gentoo QA
490824 - Sorting alarms on time
500600 - Update countdown for active alarms in alarm list
501069 - Remove deprecated gnome-vfs dependency and use gio instead
501073 - Remove deprecated libgnomeui dependency
502230 - Properly seek player to start when looping

Please see the ChangeLog for more details.

This release includes some improvements in the autoconf files which will make it easier to include in debian. See the ChangeLog for details.

Some important bugfixes. Please see ChangeLog for details.

Fixes bug #261877: All instances of the applet now share the same set of alarms.

This release includes some bugfixes. Debs will be up shortly.

I've just added Alarm Clock to my PPA! The package name is 'alarm-clock-applet'. Add the hardy repository found at https://launchpad.net/~joh/+archive to you sources and install!

This release includes an important bug fix which caused compilation to fail on Gutsy.

This release includes some minor changes and bugfixes:
- Set notification bubble to never expire.
- Automatically stop alarm sound notification after 20 minutes.

See the ChangeLog for more details.

Highlights for this release include: Multiple alarms, different alarm types, repeated alarms and snooze support!

The 0.2 release of marks an important milestone of the Alarm Clock development.

NEW FEATURES:
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MULTIPLE ALARMS
Alarm Clock now supports multiple alarms running simultaneously.

ALARM TYPES
Alarm Clock now distinguishes between two types of alarms: Clocks and Timers. The default type, Clock, will trigger at a specific time of day. The Timer will trigger after a specified amount of hours, minutes and seconds.

REPEATED ALARMS
Alarm Clock will now allow you to specify at what days an alarm (of type clock) should trigger. No need to activate the alarm before you go to sleep any more!

SNOOZE
An alarm or timer can now be snoozed for a specified number of minutes. This only applies for alarms which uses sound notification. Clicking the applet will snooze all running alarms. To clear all alarms, right click the applet and choose "Clear alarms".