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Sep 23 2000
What it does
Night And Day is my first officially released program. It is a small preferences panel that automatically changes the desktop color according to the clock.
Licence info
Night And Day is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which basically means that the source file is freely available, and that everybody can read it, modify it, improve it and distribute improved versions. This also means that it comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
Screenshot
See Night And Day (30kB gif)
Features
- Fully controllable color scheme
- Night And Day allows you to choose you own color scheme. Your desktop can be bright yellow desktop at night and dark green during the day if you want it. You can choose to have different for the morning and the evening.
- Screen depth aware
- Night And Day knows about screen depth and tries to display the color ramps as well as it can. Although they will (of course) look better in 32bpp, they are almost perfect in 15/16bpp and can even be used in 8bpp.
- Multi-language aware
- With Night And Day you can choose the language used for the user interface. Even better, you can switch between languages on the fly.
Known problems
- No time control
- Night And Day thinks that sunrise and sunset times are 6AM and 6PM, no matter where you live.
- Buggy preview display
- The preview color bar upgrades too slowly. It sometimes shows some tearing. Pixel-independent dithering looks bad in 8bpp.
- Only three languages
- Night And Day only knows English, French and Dutch. If you want your language to be supported, you can do it yourself or help me translate the GUI to your favorite language.
- Bad source code
- The source code is very bad. It should be split in multiple files, to make compiling easier. Some comments would be great as well.
Version history
- Version 0.1.2, Nov 25 1999
- Mostly unchanged, add Dutch support
- Version 0.1.1, Oct 10 1999
- Mostly unchanged, fixed some warnings and made it compile with gcc
- Version 0.1, Sept 05 1998
- First beta release