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Kit-Kat Xclock

70 points by 29athrowaway 6y ago

FlyMoreRockets 6y ago
That is a really cool xclock mod. Thanks!
readingnews 6y ago
I can not convey how fitting it is that Barky the Dog put out Kit-Cat Xclock.
jmclnx 6y ago
These items I will miss once wayland replaces X. There are hundreds of these utilities and will eventually cease to compile on modern Linux Systems. This one is one of the better ones.
- ChuckNorris89 6y ago
  >once wayland replaces X And when will that be? People have been singing the death of X for years now but there's always something keeping X around.
  - bitwize 6y ago
    Xorg minus Xwayland will probably go away in the next five years. It's unmaintained, deprecated software. Xwayland will be feature frozen, deprecated except for legacy apps, and eventually it too will wither away. They may kick around as curiosities and relics of the past, much like Flash did, but X's status as a first-class, supported member of the Linux ecosystem is finished. EDIT: Oh, look: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/582 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests... A Red Hat is prepping to start making xwayland-only releases of the server, since nobody has any plans for any new actual server releases. This is probably the beginning of the end for non-xwayland DDXen.
    - sildur 6y ago
      > It's unmaintained, deprecated software. The only people who cares about that are the ADHD-riddled developers who will anyways deprecate Wayland in seven years, only to re-implement X11 again, this time in rust. The rest of the world will keep moving and working with the "unmaintained" software while the kids play with their shiny new toys.
  - m463 6y ago
    > And when will that be? Right after the "stty" command is retired? :)
- sliken 6y ago
  Maybe, I doubt it though. If it's open source seems like someone is likely to spend the hour or two to migrate a cute little X11 widget (like the Xclock) to Weyland.
- doublepg23 6y ago
  The BSDs don't seem to keen on replacing X.
  - bitwize 6y ago
    FreeBSD probably will at some point. Some FreeBSD developers are even considering adding systemd -- or an equivalent -- to their OS (and no, not launchd, which has a few drawbacks and too many Apple-isms to be a general BSD init). And again, since X is virtually abandonware at this point, the remainder of the BSDs will follow suit, especially since most of the open source kms drivers are shared between Linux and *BSD. It's really on the compositor maintainers to support the BSD kms back end in their compositor code, though.
tialaramex 6y ago
Many years ago when I was an undergraduate, I was told that the woman in charge of computer services for us cared mostly about whether her catclock worked. I don't know how true that was, a best part of a decade later I worked for them and would have easily been able to ask, but she'd moved on. There was a method to this apparent madness though, because her catclock wasn't running on her computer, it was running remotely over X. So if the catclock worked, this meant the network was up, and key services to the remote servers worked. If one of your classmates has remotely unplugged your mouse that's annoying for you (this is mid-1990s so telnet rather than SSH and by default X sessions are open to the world) but she has more important things to focus on - however if the entire network is down that's worth her time.
flemhans 6y ago
I want flying toasters.
mxmilkb 6y ago
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/catclock-aubio-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/catclock-aubio-git
- app4soft 6y ago
  https://repology.org/project/catclock/versions https://repology.org/project/catclock/versions
MisterTea 6y ago
Plan 9 has included catclock since the 90's. In a way it has become a secondary mascot to Glenda. Most plan 9 screenshots will include catclock.
app4soft 6y ago
> Kit-Kat Xclock Title is wrong! It should be: «Kit-Cat xclock»[0] > ... The graphics were inspired by the famous, indeed iconic, Kit-Cat (R) clock, one of which still hangs in my kitchen. [0] https://github.com/BarkyTheDog/catclock#catclock https://github.com/BarkyTheDog/catclock#catclock

Kit-Kat Xclock

70 points by 29athrowaway 6y ago

FlyMoreRockets 6y ago

That is a really cool xclock mod. Thanks!

readingnews 6y ago

I can not convey how fitting it is that Barky the Dog put out Kit-Cat Xclock.

jmclnx 6y ago

These items I will miss once wayland replaces X. There are hundreds of these utilities and will eventually cease to compile on modern Linux Systems. This one is one of the better ones.

ChuckNorris89 6y ago
>once wayland replaces X And when will that be? People have been singing the death of X for years now but there's always something keeping X around.
- bitwize 6y ago
  Xorg minus Xwayland will probably go away in the next five years. It's unmaintained, deprecated software. Xwayland will be feature frozen, deprecated except for legacy apps, and eventually it too will wither away. They may kick around as curiosities and relics of the past, much like Flash did, but X's status as a first-class, supported member of the Linux ecosystem is finished. EDIT: Oh, look: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/582 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests... A Red Hat is prepping to start making xwayland-only releases of the server, since nobody has any plans for any new actual server releases. This is probably the beginning of the end for non-xwayland DDXen.
  - sildur 6y ago
    > It's unmaintained, deprecated software. The only people who cares about that are the ADHD-riddled developers who will anyways deprecate Wayland in seven years, only to re-implement X11 again, this time in rust. The rest of the world will keep moving and working with the "unmaintained" software while the kids play with their shiny new toys.
- m463 6y ago
  > And when will that be? Right after the "stty" command is retired? :)
sliken 6y ago
Maybe, I doubt it though. If it's open source seems like someone is likely to spend the hour or two to migrate a cute little X11 widget (like the Xclock) to Weyland.
doublepg23 6y ago
The BSDs don't seem to keen on replacing X.
- bitwize 6y ago
  FreeBSD probably will at some point. Some FreeBSD developers are even considering adding systemd -- or an equivalent -- to their OS (and no, not launchd, which has a few drawbacks and too many Apple-isms to be a general BSD init). And again, since X is virtually abandonware at this point, the remainder of the BSDs will follow suit, especially since most of the open source kms drivers are shared between Linux and *BSD. It's really on the compositor maintainers to support the BSD kms back end in their compositor code, though.

tialaramex 6y ago

Many years ago when I was an undergraduate, I was told that the woman in charge of computer services for us cared mostly about whether her catclock worked. I don't know how true that was, a best part of a decade later I worked for them and would have easily been able to ask, but she'd moved on. There was a method to this apparent madness though, because her catclock wasn't running on her computer, it was running remotely over X. So if the catclock worked, this meant the network was up, and key services to the remote servers worked. If one of your classmates has remotely unplugged your mouse that's annoying for you (this is mid-1990s so telnet rather than SSH and by default X sessions are open to the world) but she has more important things to focus on - however if the entire network is down that's worth her time.

flemhans 6y ago

I want flying toasters.

mxmilkb 6y ago

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/catclock-aubio-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/catclock-aubio-git

app4soft 6y ago
https://repology.org/project/catclock/versions https://repology.org/project/catclock/versions

MisterTea 6y ago

Plan 9 has included catclock since the 90's. In a way it has become a secondary mascot to Glenda. Most plan 9 screenshots will include catclock.

app4soft 6y ago

> Kit-Kat Xclock Title is wrong! It should be: «Kit-Cat xclock»[0] > ... The graphics were inspired by the famous, indeed iconic, Kit-Cat (R) clock, one of which still hangs in my kitchen. [0] https://github.com/BarkyTheDog/catclock#catclock https://github.com/BarkyTheDog/catclock#catclock