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.
Before building from source, please check whether your distribution has a package already. Search for Minbar in your distro repositories or check out:
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.
Djihed Afifi: djihed@gmail.com http://djihed.com/minbar
--Djihed