A tiny GNOME app that reads a name to timezone key file and shows where in the world and what the current time is for said person. It was heaviily based on the timezone editor in gnome-control-center.
The data file must be called data.txt and must be "key file" format
with one group called "people". For example:
[people]
Jacques Chirac=Europe/Paris
Silvio Berlusconi=Europe/Rome
Bob Hawke=Australia/Sydney
A data file is shipped and installed into $prefix/share/gente/data.txt.
This is just for testing as its contents are a joke. You can use
your own key file by putting it in ~/.config/gente/ ensuring it too
is called data.txt. This will override the installed test data file.
The names of the timezones are read from
/usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab. When adding people to the data file
ensure to check the timezone exists in this file or it won't show up
in the map correctly. If a timezone is not recognised, the following
warning will appear on the command line when opening the program:
** (gente:29821): WARNING **: Unsupported timezone 'Europe/Barcelona' for 'Ramon Salazar'
Most of the src/ directory was lifted from gnome-control-center's
panels/datetime/ directory:
- cc-timezone.map.[ch]: the GTK widget used for displaying the world map and its timezones.
- data/: the images to show the world map accurately.
- timedate1-interface.xml: XML introspection data for the org.freedesktop.timedate1 D-Bus service.
- tz.[ch]: timezone utilities originally from Anaconda for dealing with known quirks with timezone.