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 Post subject: How to track time spent working on a particular xcf?
PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:25 pm  (#1) 
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Hi All!

Could not find an solution for my question, so decided to write it here:

Is there a possibility to track time spent on a particular xcf file? If not, is there a Linux programs which capable to do it?


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 Post subject: Re: How to track time spent working on a particular xcf?
PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:13 pm  (#2) 
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Assuming you are working on it continuously, you should be able to look at the file properties and compare the created time against the last modified time.

From the command line:
ls -l will show the last modified time
ls -l --time=ctime shows the created time

However if you want a cumulative time when you're taking breaks, then you'll need a separate stopwatch/elapsed time application, and be disciplined about using it. :)

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 Post subject: Re: How to track time spent working on a particular xcf?
PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:29 pm  (#3) 
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Hi Kevin,

It definitely would be cumulative time since I do one task for each file in directory, than do second and so on...

From the other side gathering statistics must be performed by applications itself because humans are not too reliable at doing such things )))

If I am not mistaken, I saw this function in Photoshop 3 (It was a long, long time ago...). Tracking time is a kind of commercial thing, but, for sure, some freelancers (including me) would be happy to have it in Gimp.

So, is it possibe to implement it in Gimp by scripts? And store the gathered time in the xcf (that would be more convenient than store it in other file/data base)?


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 Post subject: Re: How to track time spent working on a particular xcf?
PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:33 pm  (#4) 
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There use to be a program called Hamster or Project Hamster for Linux. It's not exactly what your asking for but might be a good alternative.

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 Post subject: Re: How to track time spent working on a particular xcf?
PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:48 pm  (#5) 
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Playing around on my little netbook, no gimp available so using inkscape.

Throwing this in as a thought. Maybe the 'time' utility. I can launch a graphic for editing from my file browser (emelfm2 here) using this bash file.

#!/bin/sh
time -o /home/rich/log.txt -a inkscape $1

this logs the time & some other stats for as long as inkscape is open. Run again and the log is appended with the next session.
Should not be too difficult to add a line recording the file name.

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 Post subject: Re: How to track time spent working on a particular xcf?
PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:41 pm  (#6) 
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Odinbc, Hamster require user to manually write down start and finish doing tasks, that would complicate the process rather than simplify it.

rich2005, That would be interesting. Personally I would write log into filename.xcf.txt to have statistics for each file separetely. I'd take a closer look at it tomorrow. Thanks!


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