Re: RFS: lal

[Michael Lustfield <michael@profarius.com>]

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Just FYI - lal is extremely light weight an recommended frequently for
use in WM's such as openbox.

Blogs that suggest it:
http://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/#Clocks
http://www.minuslab.net/d/?p=62
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=852420
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=40795

from freshmeat:
"lal is a clock for the dock. It is a very simple application designed
for use with WMs like Openbox that provide a dock area. The font, time format, text color, and width can all be specified on the command line or in your ~/.Xdefaults."


It's very flexible but also very tiny. It's something that hasn't been
packaged because compiling it is so simple and easy. Me learning how to
package with this application probably took longer than it did to build
the source. Personally, I can't see using anything else. I have this in
my own PPA but I'd rather see the rest of the world be able to use it
with no troubles.

If you'd like to see it, I uploaded an image:
http://imagebin.ca/img/89-XQyC.png

I hope this helps anyone interested understand why it's going to be
useful to others.

Also, I recently uploaded this again with some improvements to debian/*
files.

Thanks,


On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:43:55 -0500
Michael Lustfield <mtecknology@ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> Dear mentors,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lal".
> 
> * Package name    : lal
>   Version         : 1.1-1
>   Upstream Author : Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@comhem.se>
>                   : Dave Foster <daf@minuslab.net>
> * URL             : http://projects.l3ib.org/lal
> * License         : GPLv3
>   Section         : x11
> 
> It builds these binary packages:
> lal        - dockable clock applet for various window managers
> 
> The package appears to be lintian clean.
> 
> My motivation for maintaining this package is:
>   I have been using this tool for a while including in my own PPA. After realizing how many
>   people were using it I figured I should work with the authors and get this into Debian.
>   I intend to add an excellent feature in the future but this is a ways off. I'll be excited
>   to bring this to other users as well.
> 
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lal
> - - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> - - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lal/lal_1.1-1.dsc
> 
> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
> 
> Thanks,
> - -- 
> Michael Lustfield
> Kalliki Software
> 
> Network and Systems Administrator
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Michael Lustfield
Kalliki Software

Network and Systems Administrator
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