Timer Applet

Timer Applet now features a countdown animation with a "pie" meter, one-click selection of timer presets, streamlined saving of new presets, and periodic redisplay of the notification bubble for a finished timer until the user stops it. A new GConf key lets users enable notification beeps on a computer's internal speaker, and a D-Bus API allows third-party scripts and applications to manipulate Timer Applets. The applet has been completely rewritten in Python.

libnotify support was added. The timer now uses a
pulsing button animation rather than a dialog to
indicate that a timer has finished. A libnotify
notification balloon also pops up momentarily. The
applet now hides the Presets menu if it's empty.
New translations were added for Esperanto (eo),
Finnish (fi), Italian (it), and Korean (ko). Lots
of code refactoring and clean up was done. Timer
Applet now requires GTK+ 2.8 or later and
libnotify 0.3.0 or later.

Customizable notification sounds were implemented. Right-click menu items were provided for pausing, resuming, restarting, and stopping the timer. There is now also a presets submenu for starting presets. A Turkish translation was added and then Swedish translation was updated. Various bugs were fixed.

This release features mainly bugfixes and minor tweaks to
polish up Timer Applet. The applet now properly handles
customized panel backgrounds (such as transparency), and
it places the remaining time below the timer icon when the
applet is on a horizontal panel that is larger than a certain
size or when it is on a vertical panel.