The pomodoro technique is used to boost productivity and this applet provides an easy way to use the technique right on your desktop. Read more about the technique here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
In order to install cinnamon-pomodoro you have to execute the following steps:
- You need SoX play to play sound files, it is pre-installed on Linux Mint / Ubuntu, you can easily check:
$ which play $ man play
If you do not have it, you will need to install it for your distribution, for debian it is:
$ sudo apt-get install sox
- Clone the repository and install the files into the cinnamon applet directory;
$ git clone git@github.com:gfreeau/cinnamon-pomodoro.git
$ cp -r cinnamon-pomodoro/pomodoro@gregfreeman.org ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets
- Alternatively, if you don't have GIT installed you can just download zip file
$ wget https://github.com/gfreeau/cinnamon-pomodoro/archive/master.zip -O cinnamon-pomodoro.zip
$ unzip cinnamon-pomodoro.zip
cp -r cinnamon-pomodoro/pomodoro@gregfreeman.org ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets
- You may need to restart cinnamon, press ALT-F2 and enter 'r'
- Finally, enable the applet by going to Menu->Settings->Applets and selecting Pomodoro
- Get productive!
$ cd po
$ msginitYou can also specify the locale and pot file
$ msginit --locale=fr --input=pomodoro@gregfreeman.org.pot- Edit the newly created .po file and change msgstr to translated text.
- Please add your translations to this repository.
- Use cinnamon-json-makepot to test your translations