GNOME Journal: Tracking Your Time with Project Hamster

Hamster code has been moved to https://github.com/projecthamster The app is under “hamster” (the name might change but i think it’s ok). And you can also see shell-extension there.

I installed hamster-applet and gnome-shell-extensions-hamster. But I can't see how to actually use it efficiently. It looks like this:

How can I start tracking time for a specific project from this "applet"?

On Dec 20 i’ll be shipping a stable(r) version of project hamster. By shipping i mean the github repository will be tagged and there will be a targzipped package in the downloads section. One big thing that is going to happen, is the renaming of the package. It used to be “hamster-applet” and now it will be “hamster-time-tracker“.

  You still need to install hamster from sources but this is a big step forward. Go get it! https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/425/project-hamster-extension/   After installing reload the page and you will get to prefs too, in case you don’t like hamster right in the middle of the panel or would like to just have the icon. It’s still work in (slow) progress of course.

A shameless plug: now you can flattr hamster. If you would like to flattr, but don’t have an account, i have 3 invites (comment with request to get one).

grab the latest version from the tags page

 fix issue #61 – installation was missing initial database for fresh installs desktop notification now once again correctly notifies of “No activity” updated Bulgarian translation

apart from that i decoupled the sqlite backend even further, so say if you would like to create your own time tracking app, you can at least reuse the models.

I keep going back and forth on this, but the truth is i don’t have time for hamster anymore. So i’m looking for a new maintainer. First of all – don’t panic – the project is not going to die – as i’m using hamster on daily basis myself (and it does everything i need), i will keep making sure it works at least on Fedora (my distro of choice), but i need someone taking care of pull requests and mak

For those interested: http://www.janhouse.lv/blog/linux/hamster-time-tracker-in-system-tray/

2.30 is now slowly being picked up by all the major distributions and we sure hope to get some breeze of feedback. Tell us what you think of the new version of Project Hamster through your weblogs!