Ubuntu 8.10 upgrade experience
This is just a quick post concerning my upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, there will be more to come later.
One of the new features I was most anticipating in this upgrade was the time tracking applet included with the upgrade to Gnome 2.24. I have to fill in daily time sheets at work and trying to keep track of what I work on in any one day has become a real hassle, I was hoping this applet would make completing these time sheets a lot easier so imagine my dismay when after performing the upgrade to 8.10 and opening the add to panel dialog I found no such applet!
Long story short and without explaination because I don’t know why it wasn’t there but I was able to add the time tracking applet by running the following in a terminal
sudo apt-get install hamster-applet
after installing hamster the time tracking applet was in my add to panel dialog and I am indeed looking forward to using it (aparently it took me 8 minutes to write this post!)
I was surprised too when noticed time tracker applet (that supposed to be a part of GNOME 2.24) is missing. The applet seems to be a good replacement of obsolete GTimer that I used till now.
Comment made by sezal on November 16, 2008 @ 2:24 pm
Great post. I found this post of great worth and have actually posted it on my blog site as well. Some of the wording I changed but I based it off your review cause it is short and to the point of a great applet.
I too, was surprised when I updated to 8.10 and found no “Time Tracking” applet. I mean everything I had read boasted it and then to find out, it was not there.
Comment made by Krow on January 30, 2009 @ 2:42 am