hamster time tracker in kubuntu 20.04

I'm trying to install the hamster time tracker in Kubuntu 20.04, but it seems quite difficult. Has anyone got it working?

hamster itself is not present in the official repos, but I installed hamster-snap from here. That works, but I'd also like to have a way to put it in the KDE system tray.

Earlier (in Kubuntu 16.04) that was possible with hamster-tray but that seems to be defunct now.

1 Answer

It is possible by following two steps below.

Get hamster-time-tracker package from groovy:

cd ~/Downloads
wget
sudo apt-get install ./hamster-time-tracker_3.0.2-3_all.deb

Clone Hamster unity-indicator repository and install the indicator to the system:

sudo apt-get install git python-is-python3 gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 python3-gi-cairo
cd ~/Downloads
git clone
cd unity-indicator
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
sudo cp data/hamster-indicator.gschema.xml /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas
sudo cp hamster-indicator /usr/local/bin/hamster-indicator
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
cp data/hamster-indicator.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
sed -i "s|Icon=hamster-time-tracker|Icon=hamster-indicator-active|" ~/.local/share/applications/hamster-indicator.desktop
sed -i "s|Exec=/usr/bin/hamster-indicator|Exec=/usr/local/bin/hamster-indicator|" ~/.local/share/applications/hamster-indicator.desktop
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/pixmaps
cp data/icons/hicolor/24x24/* ~/.local/share/pixmaps/
cp data/icons/hicolor/scalable/* ~/.local/share/pixmaps/

and enjoy:

Also it is possible to make it working on MATE with commands below:

cd ~/Downloads/unity-indicator
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/apps/24/
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-light/apps/24/
cp /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/index.theme ~/.local/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark
cp /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-light/index.theme ~/.local/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-light
cp data/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/24x24/* ~/.local/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/apps/24/
cp data/icons/ubuntu-mono-light/24x24/* ~/.local/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-light/apps/24/
gtk-update-icon-cache ~/.local/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark
gtk-update-icon-cache ~/.local/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-light

to get the following: