Quozl's gfocustimer

GTK+ Focus Timer 1.0

Captures information about which windows you are spending your time in, to assist with personal scheduling and preparing timesheets.

News

Now available as a darcs repository:

darcs get http://quozl.linux.org.au/darcs/gfocustimer

Features

displays a continually updated timesheet for the current day,
in manual mode, tracks time spent on each task selected, (you tell it what you are working on),
in watch focus mode, tracks time spent in other windows by assigning the windows to tasks, (you tell it about other windows and it figures out from that what you are working on),
can display its own manual page in a window,
provides an event log view as a separate window, allowing removal and reassignment of past time periods,
provides detailed focus event logging to stdout (configure --enable-log),
supports user defined global shortcut keys so as to avoid the need to reach for the window with the mouse,
provides various display formats,
end of work day scripting allows actions to be taken once the total time booked exceeds a limit.

Changes

This is the first stable release. Changes since 0.5 were:

log focus events to stdout, set during configure,
perform an external action on completion of working day,
recognition of Enter key on task entry window.

Resources

ChangeLog detailed list of changes made,
gfocustimer-1.0.tar.gz (83Kb) source code tarball,
gfocustimer.txt the man page, which explains how to use the semi-automatic focus watching mode,
sawfish-raise.txt a way to have the Sawfish window manager raise the gfocustimer window periodically, contributed by Neal McBurnett.

Screen Shots

Figure 1, Help - About Window

Displays limited information about the program and the GPL license brief text.

Figure 2, Help - Manual Window

Displays the manual page built into the program.

Figure 3, Main Window, Idle

This is the window that you have on your screen most of the time. This particular shot of the window is in idle mode, not charging time to any entry.

Figure 4, Main Window, Charging

When time is being charged, a green highlight covers the entry, and the left column increments regularly.

Figure 5, Main Window, Connecting

When you have chosen to use Watch Focus mode, and you have selected an entry but have yet to select the window to connect to it, the entry is displayed in red. It reverts to green once the other window has been given focus.

Figure 6, Edit - Entry Window

Creating or editing entries uses this trivial window. However, since you may want to edit the time charged while charging time the change you make to the entry will include the time charged while making the change.

Figure 7, Event Log Window

This is the event log view of the same data, showing the start time, duration, and task name. For events relating to the watch focus mode, the window title is recorded in the Details column. The Reassign button can be used to adjust an event so that it is charged to a different task. The Remove button can be used to remove an event, and thereby decrement the task total time by the duration of the event.

Figure 8, Preferences Window Views

The place where you may define a shortcut for gfocustimer operations. Users of Window Maker will recognise the layout here.

Wishlist

You may be able to help.

package this for distribution,
test out my code and find any defects,
make feature suggestions,
see also README, TODO and NEWS in source kit.

Page Change Log

Date	Change
2006-06-02	Add darcs repository, which has some changes over 1.0, go look.
2001-11-30	Add sawfish-raise.txt
2001-11-26	Release 1.0, update all screenshots, remove static build for 0.5, remove patch for 0.5, remove non-working RPM distribution.
2001-11-25	Rikke D . Giles writes to me to let me know that the .src.rpm file doesn't work on Mandrake Linux. His return mail address doesn't work either, so I can't thank him.

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