From 5dc157569de2087873deb5af431767196dd175e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre Métras Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:25:59 +0000 Subject: Initial import (version 5) --- (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..33d0460 --- /dev/null +++ b/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +A simple Clock face to know the time of the day, and eventually learn how to read it. + +20080129 1.0 - Initial creation of the Basic Clock. + - 3 display modes: simple, with hours ticks and date, nice clock face. + +20080321 2.0 - Added a digital clock with two views: basic and complete. + - Support context in gettext with custom function pgettext(). + - Changed fonts as they could not display some characters in Portuguese. Use Pango to layout text now. + - Added a color code to help learning time. Made clock hands a bit wider too. + - A few bugs solved and made code more complex to read! + +20080923 3.0 - Added license information required by the new 8.2 activity bundle format. + +20080925 4.0 - When the activity is not active, we don't update the clock to save CPU resources. + +20081022 5.0 - Refactoring of the code: cairo drawing has been removed and we use Gdk now. The big drawing method has been splitted in small and easy to understand methods. + - Display the date and weekday combined out of the clock face. + - Use XO approved colors for better contrast. + - New toolbar instead of the hidden right button. Only 3 display modes have been kept for the clock faces: simple, nice and digital. + - New activity icon. + - Write the current time in full letters, with the same colors code for the clock hands. + - Inference engine to translate a numeric time to letters. Three set of localized rules, for English, French and Spanish have been provided as model for translatorsand procedures to test them. + - Speak aloud the current time through espeak TTS. + - Most methods are now private. -- cgit v0.9.1