On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:48 +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > On 19/10/10 16:11, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > > The 'Alarm Clock' utility is now ready for download. Read the Readme, > > choose your type, and if you want, give me feedback so I can improve it. > > Simono > > I think the gold standard is that it should be at least as good as using > "at". For example:- > > joh...@liberator:~/simono$ echo "aplay wakejap.wav" | at 16:45 > job 8 at Tue Oct 19 16:45:00 2010 > joh...@liberator:~/simono$ echo "aplay wakejap.wav" | at 16:50 > job 9 at Tue Oct 19 16:50:00 2010 > joh...@liberator:~/simono$ atq > 8 Tue Oct 19 16:45:00 2010 a johncc > 9 Tue Oct 19 16:50:00 2010 a johncc > joh...@liberator:~/simono$ atrm 9 > joh...@liberator:~/simono$ atq > 8 Tue Oct 19 16:45:00 2010 a johncc > joh...@liberator:~/simono$ > > So as a suggested feature list:- > > * execution of arbitrary commands when alarms go off, as well as a > preset for sounds (perhaps scan for aplay, paplay, play, mplayer ...) > * add/remove/list multiple alarms > * persist alarms to a text file in ~/config between instances > > Perhaps you could also look into splitting it into a daemon and a front > end, communicating with sockets? > > Best regards, > > John Isn't this the thing about Open Source? Simon makes the source code available, and other people can add their own desired bells and whistles.
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