Djihed Afifi

Minbar 0.2 packages have been produced for ubuntu and debian. Please follow this link to my minbar 0.2 post to get them. They are linked at the end.

http://djihed.com/minbar/minbar-02-released

I am pleased to announce the release of Minbar 0.2. The last version is now Minbar 0.2.1 after a small update to fix a bug.
Minbar is the GNOME prayer times application.

Screenshot:

More at: http://files.djihed.com/minbarss/0.2

Amongst the bug fixes and new features are:

• Prayer Timetable (Calendar).
• Ability to start minimised to tray.
• Fix for .desktop installation.
• Store Athan path.
• City names database.
• Qibla Direction.
• Multiple Athan files, Subh Athan file as well.
• Appropriate plurals support.
• Add CLI option to start minimised.
• Better artwork.
• Accept non integer values for time zone for countries like India.
• Close now hides to tray.

Artwork by:

• Yulian Ardiansyah.

Updated and new translations:

• English.
• Arabic: Abderrahim Kitouni, Khaled Hosny.
• Bosnian: Nedim, Alma.
• Farsi: Mohammad Derakhshani
• French: Abdelmonam Kouka, Mohammed Adnène Trojette.
• Indonesian: Andika Triwidada.
• Pashto: Zabeeh Khan
• Spanish: Guillermo Garcia Rojas Covarrubias.
• Turkish: Mustafa Doğan.
• Urdu: Suleman Khalid.
• Urdu PK: Muhammad Ali Makki.

Special thanks to:

• Abderrahim Kitouni: for helping with integrating the city database and many other things.
• Mohammed Adnène Trojette: build files, testing.
• Ahmad Farghal: Testing.

Author:

• Djihed Afifi.

I would also like to thank all those who sent me comments and emails about Minbar, as well as the guys at the ubuntume and zekr projects.

Errors and bugs in Minbar are, of course, solely my responsibility.
Contact:

• For any issues, please comment here or contact djihed at gmail dot com.

Download

Ubuntu

A ubuntu package is available:

minbar_0.2.1-1_i386.deb

Debian

Minbar 0.2 is in Debian thanks to Adnène,
Minbar Debian packages.

(Scroll to the bottom and choose your architecture. Unless you know what you’re doing, yours is likely i386)

Fedora

Fedora packages have been built by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail:

Fedora Minbar and ITL packages.

PCLinuxOS
PCLinuxOS packages have been built by Suleman Khalid:

PCLinuxOS Minbar and ITL packages

Source

The source tarballs for 0.2.1 can be downloaded via these links (the same in different formats):

minbar-0.2.1.zip

minbar-0.2.1.tar.gz

minbar-0.2.1.tar.bz2

Other distributions

Packages for other distributions will be posted here as they become available. If you know how to build a package, please send it to djihed at gmail dot com.