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TkGoodStuff4.0 desktop button panel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Sep 16 13:56:23 1995
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 00:27:01 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: markcrim@merv.philosophy.lsa.umich.edu (Mark Crimmins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: TkGoodStuff4.0 desktop button panel
Organization: University of Michigan
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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The first real (non-beta) release of tkgoodstuff (numbered 4.0 to
correlate with the version of tk it works with) is now available.
README for TkGoodStuff version 4.0, Sep 14, 1995:
TkGoodStuff for X windows is an alarm clock, biff, modem
dialer/network indicator, note-taker, web-browser launch tool, and
whatever else you want.
TkGoodStuff produces a button panel (e.g., a button bar, a stack of
bars, a stack of buttons, bars and stacks of bars, etc.---vertical or
horizontal as you please). It is designed to be easily configured and
modified in the user's ~/.tkgoodstuffrc file. The main envisioned use
is as an always-on-top destop utility to serve the user's common needs
for indicators and buttons.
You can easily configure buttons to execute simple tasks, and with
Tcl/Tk scripting, you can write "clients" which do fancier things.
Some "clients" are included:
-- analog/digital alarm clock
-- biff (mail checker)
-- PPP (or SLIP or TERM) net link GUI dialer and status
indicator
-- POP/IMAP mail fetch scheduler.
NEW: -- launcher for WWW browsers (lets you visit the URL in the
current X selection with one click)
NEW: -- note-taker (tool for quickly jotting down and organizing
scraps of information)
-- calendar/alarm support (for Ical-generated calendar files)
Documentation including screen-shots is available on the WWW, at:
http://www.umich.edu/~markcrim/tkgoodstuff/tkgoodstuff.html
The html documentation also is included in the doc/ directory of the
distribution.
Availability:
ftp://merv.philosophy.lsa.umich.edu/pub/tkgoodstuff.tgz
Requires tk4.0.
----
Mark Crimmins
markcrim@umich.edu
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