KClock is a convergent clock application for KDE Plasma.
KClock is split into three components: kclock (front-end), kclockd (backend-daemon), and plasmoids. Various plasmoids for kclockd exist, and some also communicate with KWeather.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Alarms.
- Stopwatch.
- World Clocks.
- Timers.
- The background daemon, which is configured to autostart. It has the following responsibilities:
- Schedule wakeups with PowerDevil, which handles waking from suspend for alarms and timers.
- Exposing alarms, timers, and settings models via a D-Bus interface.
- Alarm/Timer notifications and ringing audio.
- Indicator on system tray for pending alarms.
Website: invent.kde.org/utilities/kclock
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: KDE Community
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
KClock is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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