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Re: ireminder



> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:36:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
> Subject: Re: ireminder
> To: Development Discussions <developer at arabeyes dot org>
> 
> 
> This is actually very simple to do and I'll take a crack at it in the
> next few days.  What I had envisioned when ireminder was created was
> a '-gui' feature (using Tk) that would pop a reminder dialog Y-minutes
> prior to prayer or similar (the '-exec' could fork an external agent
> to do that as well).  The -gui shouldn't be difficult to do now that
> Tk is a full-fledged perl library ('use Tk').  I'll add that on my list
> when I get some time...

I used to use Tk in the GUI at first, but then I used notify-send as it 
looked better.

As for the -gui option, I didn't add it as I check for the existance of 
$DISPLAY variable to check if there is a GUI to display on or not.