Help with a tcl/tk gui thing..

Ok, this is ridiculous, and has nothing to do with git apart from being hosted in it, but I thought I'd send out an email about it since the git community is the only one I know that does any GUI work at all...

I've got three girls, all wasting their time on their computer, and we set up this rule that they get to have a maximum of an hour of internet time each day. Of course, being the geek I am, I wrote a stupid time tracker for that purpose, and then totally forgot about it.

Until the harddisk in their computer broke down, and I had to re-install, and realized that I didn't have a copy of my stupid tracker sources anywhere. So I had to re-write it, and to make sure that I didn't lose it _again_, I put it in a git repo this time, and now have it on my desktop machine.

I _also_ have it on kernel.org, because I tend to change machines often enough that files get lost because I decide that switching machines is also a great way of doing "generational GC" on my home directory.

[ iow, I copy my old home directory as "old-home" when I switch machines, 
  and anything I didn't end up copying by the time I switch machines 
  again, just gets deleted. Very neat, and a great way to lose things that 
  you only care about every other year or so. ]

Whatever.

To make a long story short, I have a very small program that does all the tracking, and I have no problems with that. It doesn't have much of a admin interface, but I can do "echo 3600 > /var/log/tracker/celeste" to reset the time etc. _I_ have no need for pretty GUI's.

But I also have a UI that the kids can run to _see_ how much time they have left, so that getting thrown off the machine doesn't come as a total surprise. And yesterday Patricia asked why it has to be that ugly. And I had to admit that her dad is just not very good at UI's - and my re-implementation may in fact have been EVEN UGLIER than my original version. If that is even possible.

But hey, I'm not above impressing my kids with pretty bling if I can get somebody else who actually knows what they are doing to enhance my wish scripts to something reasonable.

Anybody?

The repository is at

	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/tracker.git

if somebody knows how to make the text turn red when the end is near and/or make it have some nice graphical bar that fills up as time is about to expire.

And if nobody does, no worries. At least I tried. My kids can continue to watch ugly/small/monochrome fonts with just a count-down clock.

			Linus