BombMaker Gnome Applet

In my KDE days, i used to make a lot of use of an applet called KTeaTime. Its a nice little applet that tells you when your tea is ready after you select what type of tea you want. So if you select extra black tea, for example, it will remind you that your tea is done after 10 minutes. I used this when i wanted to make some hot drink for my coding sessions. So i would set up the drink and i will let it cool and use that to remind me when it would be done. Or when i would run a long compilation process that takes several minutes to finish, i just put it on another workspace and set this to remind me after a few minutes.

Bomb Maker is a gnome applet that tries to clone this with a twist. It is a reminder applet in which you choose a certain bomb type and it goes off after its time period elapses. You can also choose to manufacture a custom bomb type which has a custom time period till explosion and includes a custom message. Did you ever tell yourself that you will attend to a certain task in 10 minutes and then forgot? Will your favorite movie air in 42 minutes? Well, try this….

Some features include:

• Multiple notifications
• Multiple Time Periods
• Custom Message for Custom Bomb Type
• Custom Time for Custom Bomb Type

This is developed and tested on the GNU/Linux Ubuntu distribution(10.04 and above), but should work on other debian-based distributions. The code is released under the GPL v3 and so if anyone would like to collaborate, let me know. The project is now hosted on github at http://github.com/alaasalman/bombmaker