khumnath/nepdate

nepali date desktop widget similar to conky and nepali calendar application using Qt framework

Nepdate calendar

nepdate-calendar provides a standalone Nepali calendar and converter for Bikram Sambat and Gregorian calendars.

Nepdate widget

nepdate-widget is a desktop floating widget for Linux that displays the Nepali date. It provides the following features:

• Displays the Nepali date on your desktop.
• Can be moved anywhere on the screen.
• with automatic text color adjustment based on the background color.

##To-Do List

1. Create an installable DEB file for Debian-based distributions.
2. Make the calendar responsive to window resizing.
3. Implement tithi and other panchanga calculations in the calendar app.
4. Create a cross-platform application. now nepdate-calendar builds and runs perfectly using qtcreator and mingw compiler. not tested cmake. nepdate-widget is building but does not display widget window.

Dependencies

Nepdate and calendar relies on the following Qt libraries:

• Qt Core
• Qt Widgets
• Qt GUI

Usage

1. Clone this repository to your local machine.
2. Create a build folder in the project directory.
3. Build the project using cmake .. and then run make all.
4. You can also compile the project using Qt Creator or Qmake.
5. Run the Nepdate executables: nepdate-widget for the desktop widget nepdate-calendar for the calendar
6. The floating Nepali date widget will appear on your desktop, with automatic text color adjustment based on the background color.

Screenshots

nepdate in action

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3. See the LICENSE file for details.

contribution

first of all any suggestion and bug reports can be filed on github issue here https://github.com/khumnath/nepdate/issues

for contribution

1. Clone repository
2. make changes
3. make a pull request with proper description of changes.