Minbar is a GNOME Islamic prayer times application on top of libitl, the Arabeyes prayer calculation library. It runs in background as a tray icon, plays the 'athan' (call to prayer) and notifies when at prayer times. Minbar uses the following optional calculation methods: You must adjust it to make it use the method you follow in Preferences. BUILDING -------- Before building from source, please check whether your distribution has a package already. Search for Minbar in your distro repositories or check out: http://djihed.com/minbar To build, you need a few libraries and programs to build from source, on debian/ubuntu these are: automake1.9 gettext gnome-common libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglade2-dev libitl-dev libgconf2-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libnotify-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev Build essentials: make, gcc, ... Build procedure: you just need to run the following commands ./autogen.sh make sudo make install If you prepared a package for another Linux distribution or ported Minbar to another operating system, please let me know by sending me an email. CONTACT ------- Djihed Afifi: djihed@gmail.com http://djihed.com/minbar --Djihed