Jaseem: The installation file should contain Athan files in the form of .ogg files. Those should be playable. Also, you need to install gstreamer plugins.

In the next version I’ll try to support more formats than ogg.

I would like to thank you for this lovely SW, and I want to know how to add Minbar to Panel?
I’m using Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)

Thanks

Regards

The new version containing the city database will undoubtedly make it easier for you. Let me know how it goes (After releasing Minbar 0.2).

Djihed

I’ve since gone from Dapper to Fiesty - and yes, now I have the tool-tip showing me all times until the next prayer (, was never that way under Dapper though … can’t say why).

Since my last post, I have thought of one really nice to have feature, but don’t know how needful it is for others… would very much like to be able to run multiple Minbars (for different cities) - would be handy for those among us that fly by plane often (, it’s somewhat inconvenient to have to do the lat/lon switch everytime).

Again, great job, and thank you for your continued efforts.

Jazak Allah,
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Farid

Minbar 0.2 has been finalised, please see Minbar Latest for the latest post on Minbar.

In this post I will try to answer the issues raised here, If I missed any, please don’t hesitate to post.

Abdurrauf: I’m trying to make Minbar as clean and elegant as possible without overloading it with features. I will think hard about which features to include in the next version.

Ali: cities are here for version 0.2! more than 5000 cities worldwide are included in the new version which will be released soon (after translations are done).

Khalid: Unfortunatly I don’t have an ARM powered device so I can’t test it. Debian makes minbar packages for ARM architectures. But I think it would be best to enlist the help of your friend. is that possible?

Abu Said: You will be pleased to know that locations are included in the new version.

Farid:
1)Thanks, it’s always good to hear from Minbar users.
2)I think that is already included in Minbar 0.1. If I hover my mouse over the tray area, it will show me all the times and the time left until the next prayer. What version of GTK+ is yours and what distribution.
3)An option has been added to 0.2 that makes it possible to start without showing the window, which is suitable for startup times.

Rabih:
Prayer calculation are proving to be a problem with many different places and many different ways of calculations. I hope to do an audit and present an article on the differences between locations and methods. It may be the case that your location makes Isha go off by an unacceptable amount of time and so the software tries to correct that. Also, are you sure your UTC time difference is given correctly?

Kip:
Alarms. Hmm, I will definitly think about that! thank you for your suggestion.

Kiko: This has been included in the new version.

Anonymous:
1) That really depends on the locale settings and how minbar was translated to your locale. But i think you are right in making it application specific setting. I will think about that.
2) The problem is that I have way too short time to work on Minbar. I hope somebody will take the tarball of version 0.2 and create the autopackage.
3) The real problems of Athans is their license compaibtilty with the GPL. But I am thinking of having a repository of athans on this site.

Amr: Starting minimised has been added in Minbar 0.2. On the motivational checkboxes idea, that is definitly a good idea. I will think of how to integrate it in the prayer calendar for Gnome 0.3.

Hai: City names have been added for version 0.2. Versions for Windows and other operating systems and architecture will be worked on.

winny: That may because of two reasons. First, please make sure that you gave the correct UTC difference. 2nd, that may be because of calculation method differences between the software and IslamicFinder. Can you change the options and see what is best?

NMC: Done for the new version of Minbar.

JMehdi: Salam bro! thanks for reporting the queries
On issue 1: the actual correct name of the obligatory first salat is Subh, I believe.
On Issue 2: there are options to change between Hanafi and Shafii for Asr time. and I beleive the others are the same as one of these. I will check and make sure that all options are given as appropriate.

Amr: the version number completly escaped me. I will add it for Minbar 0.2. Thanks for the catch.

Imran: Wa alaykoum essalam, as I said: I believe the actual correct name of the obligatory first salat is Subh. Fajr is the two Rakaa prayer associated with it. Or no?

Ridwan: Unfortunalty I have no free versions of Dua. I will try to make them available for version 0.3.

Ahmed Kachkach: Thank you for using Minbar! Silent mod? isn’t that acheived by unticking the play Athan option? For Athan, I hope to make more available soon inchallah.

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Phew, finally :-)
Thank you all again for your constructive comments. Keep them coming: Remember that you probably should bookmark this page:

Minbar Latest, for the latest news about Minbar.

So for the changes , It would be great if it is a “SILENT MOD” When it just show a MSN-Like Notification , and also add more Athan , cuz the one included isn’t that good :p !

And it also bug sometime , but nothing that can’t be solved :-D !

Thx for your Hard Work Brother !

Ahmed

akhy djihed I hope you will include in the coming version the option to play the du’a which can be recited after the adhan.

JazakAllahu khayran, and Ramadhaan mubarak to all.

First of all , may Allah bless u for making this version of Linux for us Muslims . I would just like to give a small suggestion that it will be better if u change the ‘Subh’ salah with ‘Fajr’ salah coz the term ‘Fajr’ is internationally recognized and most commonly used as well . So i request u to look into it and please change it if possible .

Ramadan Mubarak!

Thanks.

Djihed

Wonderful program. But it would be great if you have a seperate Fajr adhan for the program.

i’m using minbar in part of ubuntume. but i cannot set up the minbar in the correct time of adzan on it. please help me. i did put latitude and longitude same with islamicfinder website. but the time shown different betwen minbar and the schedule from islamicfinder. could you explain ?
i live in ann arbor, michigan, USA.

thanks alot

It would be nice if Minbar could load directly in minimised mode instead of popping on the screen every time I start the computer.

Also, if I could make a feature request, it would be nice if we could keep track of which prayers we have performed, this could be a motivational thing, perhaps a small check box next to each prayer so a user can tick the prayer he/she performed and then later look at some statistics to see if they are praying properly or slacking or missing out prayers etc…

Thanks very much for this helpful tool :)

3 suggestions:

1) Allow viewing prayer time info in main program screen in 12 hour mode and not just in 24 hour mode.

2) I have yet to be able to compile the program since i have left ubuntu. Why not make an autopackage that will easily work for everyone on all distributions.

see http://www.autopackage.org/

This will make it much easier for less experience linux users to get this vital application on their system.

3) Add more prayer time files or provide them on the website for download. If possible include Athans from areas outside of Arabia… e.g. Syria, Turkey, Bosnia, Caucasus nations…

Looking forward to Minbar 0.2.