gtimelog 0.12.0

A Gtk+ time tracking application

GTimeLog is a simple app for keeping track of time.

Contents

• Installing

• Documentation

• Resources

• Credits

• Changelog

  • 0.12.0 (2024-04-03)

  • 0.11.3 (2019-04-23)

  • 0.11.2 (2018-11-03)

  • Older versions

Installing

GTimeLog is packaged for Debian and Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install gtimelog

For Ubuntu, sometimes a newer version can usually be found in the PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~gtimelog-dev/+archive/ppa

Fedora also holds a package of gtimelog to be installed with:

sudo dnf install gtimelog

You can fetch the latest released version from PyPI

$ pip install gtimelog
$ gtimelog

You can run it from a source checkout (without an explicit installation step):

$ git clone https://github.com/gtimelog/gtimelog
$ cd gtimelog
$ ./gtimelog

System requirements:

• Python (3.6+)

• PyGObject

• gobject-introspection type libraries for Gtk, Gdk, GLib, Gio, GObject, Pango, Soup, Secret

• GTK+ 3.18 or newer

Documentation

This is work in progress:

• docs/index.rst contains an overview

• docs/formats.rst describes the file formats

Resources

Website: https://gtimelog.org

Mailing list: [e-mail] (archive at https://groups.google.com/group/gtimelog)

IRC: #gtimelog on chat.libera.net

Source code: https://github.com/gtimelog/gtimelog

Report bugs at https://github.com/gtimelog/gtimelog/issues

There’s an old bugtracker at https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtimelog

I sometimes also browse distribution bugs:

• Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtimelog

• Debian https://bugs.debian.org/gtimelog

Credits

GTimeLog was mainly written by Marius Gedminas <[e-mail]>.

Barry Warsaw <[e-mail]> stepped in as a co-maintainer when Marius burned out. Then Barry got busy and Marius recovered.

Many excellent contributors are listed in CONTRIBUTORS.rst

Changelog

0.12.0 (2024-04-03)

• This version talks to an SMTP server instead of relying on /usr/sbin/sendmail for email sending. This should work even in flatpaks.

• New command line options: –prefs, –email-prefs.

• Use libsecret instead of gnome-keyring.

• GTK 3.18 or newer is now required (GH: #131).

• Soap 3.0 is now required (GH: #238).

• Fixed an AttributeError in the undocumented remote task list feature (GH: #153).

• Make the undocumented remote task list feature validate TLS certificates (GH: #214).

• Add Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12 support.

• Drop Python 2.7, 3.5, and 3.6 support.

• Add support for positive time offset syntax in entries.

• Focus the task entry on Ctrl+L (GH: #213).

• Change entry search to be fuzzy. It is now only required to enter characters of the entry in the correct order to find an entry.

• Enforce minimum and maximum size for the task pane (GH: #219).

• Task pane now preserves the order of task groups to match the order in tasks.txt (GH: #224).

• Grouped task entries can now be sorted by start date, name, duration or according to tasks.txt order (GH: #228).

• Add the ability to change the last entry using Ctrl+Shift+BackSpace (GH: #247).

0.11.3 (2019-04-23)

• Use a better workaround for window.present() not working on Wayland.

• Fix a rare AssertionError on quit.

• Fix problem with “Edit log” and “Edit tasks” menu entries on Windows (GH: #133).

• Do not include *** entries in slacking total (GH: #138).

• Show average time per day spent on filtered tasks (GH: #146).

• Drop Python 3.4 support.

0.11.2 (2018-11-03)

• Window menu now includes items previously shown only in the app menu: Preferences, About (GH: #126).

• Keyboard shortcuts window (press Ctrl+Shift+?).

• Dropped the help page (there was only one and it was only listing keyboard shortcuts, and it was also incomplete and had no translations).

• Bugfix: if timelog.txt was a symlink, changes to the symlink target would not get noticed automatically (GH: #128).

Older versions

See the full changelog.