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-README for TkGoodStuff version 4.1, 2 Oct, 1996
+README for TkGoodStuff version 8.0-final, 1 Oct, 1997
-TkGoodStuff for the X Window System is an alarm clock, biff, modem
-dialer/network status indicator, note-taker, web-browser launch tool,
-system load monitor, application/utility menu, Win95-like task bar,
-and whatever else you want.
+TkGoodStuff for the X Window System is an alarm clock, biff, file
+watcher, modem dialer/network status indicator, note-taker,
+web-browser launch tool, system load monitor, application/utility
+menu, Win95-like task bar, and whatever else you want.
TkGoodStuff produces a button bar. It is easily configured and
modified with the on-line GUI preferences manager (*no* rc-file
-hacking). The main envisioned use is as an always-on-top destop
-utility to serve the user's common needs for indicators and buttons.
-There is a "screen-edge" mode, in which the bar occupies an edge of
-the screen, can be dragged to other edges, and can auto-minimize
-(shrink to a line at the screen-edge). For users of the fvwm window
-manager (though tkgoodstuff works without fvwm), tkgoodstuff serves
-all the functions of the Windows95 taskbar, and then some.
-
-You can configure buttons to launch applications (with lots of
-configurable options), you can "swallow" any application's window into
-your tkgoodstuff panel, and several "clients" are included (you can
-also write your own with a tcl/tk script---an example is provided):
-
- -- analog/digital alarm clock
- -- biff (check/scan/read new mail; handles multiple folders
- and alert levels, MH folders, IMAP mailboxes)
- -- PPP (or SLIP or TERM) net link GUI dialer and status
- indicator (with sophisticated redialing and login
- scripting).
- -- FVWM support, including Win95-like bar of buttons for open
- and iconified windows, as well as a pager.
- -- launcher for WWW browsers (lets you visit the URL in the
- current X selection with one click)
- -- note-taker (tool for quickly jotting down and organizing
- scraps of information)
- -- calendar/alarm support (for Ical-generated calendar files)
- -- system load monitor (graphical and/or digital display)
- -- Menu button, for launching applications and running
- utilities (the menu is GUI-configured).
- -- "webster" net dictionary client
- -- calculator with scrollable history and hex/dec/oct modes
- (perpetually alpha, until someone adopts it as a project!)
- -- POP/IMAP mail fetch scheduler.
- -- file watcher: look for changes in log files
- -- launcher for tkman (operates with X selection like WWW
- client)
+hacking). There is a "screen-edge" mode, in which the bar occupies an
+edge of the screen, can be dragged to other edges, and can
+auto-minimize (shrink to a line at the screen-edge). For users of the
+fvwm window manager (though tkgoodstuff works without fvwm),
+tkgoodstuff serves all the functions of the Windows95 taskbar, and
+then some.