Gnome Prayer Times In the Works
2nd December 2006 - 35895 Reads
NOTE: It has come to my attention that many people are being redirect here from Google for Minbar. The latest about Minbar is available in this entry: Minbar.
Gnome is sorely missing Islamic/Arabic applications. There has been some attempts in the distant past, like a gnome applet called “akemsalatak” (cool name). Unfortunaly it won’t build, and I have not been able to establish contact with its maintainer.So here is a new Gnome Prayer Application. It is still very much a work in progress, I welcome any suggestions or contributions. The code resides in Arabeyes CVS here.
One of the cool libraries it uses it libglade. Libglade makes GUI’s so easy to make it’s almost a sin. The application uses gstreamer for Athan playback, and libitl (the Arabeyes islamic tools) to calculate the times.
Pre-Beta screenshot:
UPDATE: Minbar 0.1 has been released, please bookmark this link for the latest details: Minbar
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:40 pm
veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery important idea alah youthibokom
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:49 pm
السلام عليكم
Great. How does it integrate into Gnome (System tray, Gnome applet, and why not Evolution calendar and agenda …) ?
December 3rd, 2006 at 3:23 am
salams,
masha’Allah looks awesome, but why not help me with namaztime instead (its also gnome based, not sure if you checked it out…). i started writing it for the very same reason (there were no good ones) and that is what i use now, although it does need some work still…
wsalams,
-ahmed
December 3rd, 2006 at 3:24 am
oh… i took down that svn server where the code was, so if you are interested in taking a look, drop me an email insha’Allah.
December 3rd, 2006 at 7:18 am
Re: Youssef
The app will have a systray icon. And I’m hoping to write a quick optional gnome-panel applet component.
Regarding evolution + agenda, I think that’s cool, I’ll look into it. I think the ITL, with Khaled’s suggestions, needs a few more functions to return timestamps instead, and to calculate Zakkah times for applications like Gnucash
December 3rd, 2006 at 7:22 am
Re: Ahmedre,
Oops sorry I really haven’t noticed namaztime, my bad.
The graphics looks very cool, and your app, bug-wise, is more complete than mine. I’d be very much interested in cooperating with you. I’m sure we can work something out.
I hang out at developer at arabeyes.org, let me know if I’ll find you there :~)
And yes, I’m very much interested in the source. Can we have it uploaded to Arabeyes CVS, so we all have access to it? Again, shoot me or developer@ with the source and we’ll start from there.
(email sent as well).
Djihed
December 3rd, 2006 at 7:36 pm
salams dijhed -
i replied to your email attaching the source and will shoot developer@ an email shortly about getting it uploaded to arabeyes cvs.
wsalams,
-ahmed
December 11th, 2006 at 11:11 am
السلام عليكم
جزاكم الله خيراً على جهدكم و هذا و بارك الله فيكم ، و إن شاء الله مجتمع المصادر الحرة هينتشر في دولنا العربية انتشاراً رهيباً عما قريب ، كنت أود المشاركة في برمجة مثل هذا البرنامج ﻵخذ معكم الثواب و لكني مشغول أكثر بنشر كل ما يتعلق بالمصادر الحرة ، و جلب أكبر عدد من الناس إليها ، عشان نكون قاعدة عريضة من مستخدمي و مطوري البرامج المفتوحة
January 5th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
vraiment c’set très ineressant jazakoum allah kulla khair
January 7th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
merci
February 12th, 2007 at 11:55 am
thankx for your job
realy is good
i am computer scince student
and i like programming application and spicialy
muslems application
i wont to leran who can i program some applications
can you help me
and thank you again
asad
March 11th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Al salam alikom Brother,
The CVS link is not working. It seams that the arabeyes project changed the path to new path.
GAK for your work. May Allah accept from you.
pepomorsy
March 12th, 2007 at 9:06 am
pepomorsy, Thanks for pointing that out, I updated the link. Please note that Minbar 0.1 has been released, follow this link for more.
March 19th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Assalaam o Alaikum,
It’s a nice progam and works fine. However, I have a small observation/suggestion. I run minbar everytime Gnome starts so I added to ‘Startup Programs’ on the sessions preference window. So, whenever i login the program starts and the window is displayed. I wanted that by default, the minbar window should not be displayed at startup and only the application loads in the system tray. So I added the following line in the main() function just before calling gtk_main():
/* hide the window at startup*/
gtk_widget_hide(glade_xml_get_widget(xml, "mainWindow"));
/* start the event loop */
gtk_main();
This works well and the main window hides shortly after it is displayed at startup.
But I think it is not a very neat solution. It would be very nice if their is an option in minbar’s preferences that the main window should not be visible at startup.
Allah Hafiz
Suleman Khalid.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:31 am
Suleman Khalid, Wa Alaykoum Essalam
You are right, that feature has been asked a few times, and it is planned for Minbar 0.2.
The sources in CVS actually contain it if you wanna build it experimentally, so check it out or wait until 0.2 is released.
Djihed
July 11th, 2007 at 1:21 am
for Ubuntu’ers :
Do following steps :
1). sudo gedit /etc/apt/source.list
2). put following lines at the bottom line
# Ubuntu Muslim Edition
deb http://www.ubuntume.com/repository feisty main
(for Edgy users, you need to replace feisty with edgy)
then save it and close the file editor (Gnome Editor/Text Editor).
3). sudo apt-get update
4). sudo apt-get install minbar
5). if you wanna make “minbar” run automatically at startup,
put it at you “Startup” Program trought “Sessions” Menu
system–>>preference–>>sessions) dan new–>>minbar
Enjoy the Pray Time
Wassalam,
January 18th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Assalam alaykum bro
May ALlah bless you,,really we’re proud of you !(Wlid lebled)
your bro from Algiers !!!
February 8th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
SALAM ALIKOUM
I’m on Ubuntu 8.10 & I’ve installed minbar,when I try to launch the program
on the terminal by writing minbar. The program do’s not start and I have this
message in the terminal…..
(minbar:6381): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
Can you please help me? Thank you & JAZAKOUM ALLAH
March 14th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
very good i hope more programs for linux
grazie
March 28th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Great ..!
I hope more small city are available..
May 7th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
salam alaikum,
i love minbar. i only have one problem, in my city (gmt -5) every time the daylight saving applied, i have to change the setting in time to gmt -4.
may be the next developing could facilitate this daylight saving
thanks, may Allah bless you all.
salam alaikum
June 14th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Assalamu Alaikum,
Very good tool. One problem i noticed was that minbar is not using altitude information for calculations. Prayer times go wrong by few minutes in high altitude locations. Correcting that will be helpful.
Jazakallah..