Kountdown
This is my first real project, written in C++ using KDE and Qt. It was originally created as a program to show me the time left of my military service. At some point I decided to make it in to a screensaver instead. And that is what it is now, a screensaver which displays a countdown to selected date. Features include:
- Specify date to countdown to.
- Choose how to display the countdown, choosing among years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and/or seconds.
- Text, font and color is configurable. The font and color can even be random.
- Different text effects; None (text centred on screen), Loop (loop the text on the screen) and Popup (display text at random position). The speed is configurable.
- An optional "half-way" setting to set a time when the behaviour of the screensaver will change.
Kountdown is licensed under the GNU GPL v2. And, although I hope there are none, all bugs can be reported to me. The same goes for suggestions and comments.
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Requirements
Kountdown requires Qt >= 3.0 and KDE >= 3.0. Make sure you have installed all dev packages.
Current version
The latest version is v0.4.1. It fixes a problem compiling kountdown with gcc 3. If you have already downloaded version 0.4 and it works for you, there is no need to download v0.4.1. New features since v0.3.2 include:
- Speed improvments.
- Background pattern added.
Download Kountdown v0.4.1 (561829 bytes) released 2003-04-08.
Old versions
Download an old version.
| Version | Size | Released | Mirror | ||
| Kountdown v0.4 | 561830 | 2003-04-07 | |||
| Kountdown v0.3.2 | 350459 | 2002-05-21 | APPS.KDE | ||
| Kountdown v0.3.1 | 346435 | 2002-05-02 | APPS.KDE | ||
| Kountdown v0.3 | 346824 | 2002-04-20 | APPS.KDE | ||
| Kountdown v0.3pre3 | 347284 | 2002-04-16 | APPS.KDE | ||
| Kountdown v0.2p1 | 335279 | 2002-03-03 | APPS.KDE | ||
| Kountdown v0.2 | 328741 | 2002-03-01 | APPS.KDE | ||
| Kountdown v0.1.1 | 595388 | 2002-02-28 | ftp.kde.com | ||
| Kountdown v0.1 | 327320 | 2002-02-28 | APPS.KDE |
Remember that they probaly have some bugs...
UpFAQ
KountDown doesn't compile on SuSE 7.3
First make sure you have all dev packages installed. If it still doesn't work, try to compile some other software you downloaded. If those doesn't work either, the problem may be that SuSE shipped a new version of automake/autoconf with 7.3. Try installing the packages from SuSE 7.2. They can be found on theire ftp server. See this for more information.
It doesn't work!!
First try the newest version, if the problem still persists, then mail me. Attach a summary of the problem, any output and a short summary of your machine.
UpTodo
Add more cool effects.
UpChangelog
The changelog can be found here.
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