equake Files

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Equake is Copyright (C) 2012-2017 Jeroen van Aart

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Equake is a panel plugin for the XFCE desktop environment. It is based on 
the GNOME applet of the same name and was ported to XFCE starting with v1.03.
Equake monitors earthquakes and will display an update each time a new 
earthquake occurs.

Please read the INSTALL document on how to install it, but basically it 
comes down to running the following:

./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install

Usage is very straightforward, once you have installed the plugin you can
start it by adding it to the xfce panel. When it's added the plugin will
try to find the newest earthquake and display it in the panel. Depending
on your internet connection it may take a short while.

If you right click on the plugin a menu will open with various options
to choose from which are mostly self explanatory. The properties menu 
option allows you to configure various parts of the plugin. Settings are 
saved in a file in your home directory named: .equake_appletrc. 
You can also update this file by hand and the program will automatically 
refresh its settings.

Please email me at android@e-quake.org with any feature requests, questions,
bug reports or any other inquiries.

All programming, artwork and design by Jeroen van Aart.

Main website: https://www.e-quake.org

Also try Equake for the Android platform:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mompl.equake
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mompl.equakelite

1.3.8.1 
- Migrated to use https to download earthquake data because USGS will phase out or has phased out http access, see also: https://https.cio.gov
- Some minor code clean up and changes to the build environment

1.3.8
- Moved to bing maps because of better performance and sensible API for the detailed map display, the USGS map display remains unchanged

1.3.7:
- Fixed rare and random, but persistent bug, which could cause a crash when the last quotation mark of the "place" CSV field was cut off, due to corrupted data

1.3.6:
- Changed error handling of recv() to increase robustness, especially with more flaky internet connections

1.3.5:
- Changed behaviour when memory allocation returns null pointer, before program would exit straight when memory allocation returned NULL, now it will return (failure) to calling function
- Some minor code changes and fixes

1.3.4:
- Added display of earthquakes of the past seven days
- Added map links to last hour/day/week windows
- Added local time in addition to UTC for earthquake events
- Improved processing of the date and time
- Various minor fixes and code cleanup
- Buffer size of variables holding filenames was incorrectly defined
Known issue: Sometimes in the hourly earthquakes display the map url is incorrectly rendered, especially when only one or two earthqaukes are displayed.
This probably is due to a bug in GTK's rendering of urls.

1.3.3:
- Moved to the new data feed format as described at: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/csv.php
- Fixed small bug in data processing loops
- Removed stray sprintf() statement in favour of snprintf()
- Applied patch to allow compilation on freebsd using clang. Thanks to Olivier Duchateau and Roman Cat. 
  See: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/science/xfce4-equake-plugin/files/patch-panel-plugin__equake_func.h?view=markup&pathrev=324169

1.3.2:
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov changed their CSV text feed and added a line after the format header explaining the feed will be deprecated 
- TODO SOON: fix data processing according to new format: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/csv.php

1.3.1:
- Removed dependency on deprecated libxfcegui and instead uses libxfce4ui. Thanks to Andreas Mueller for sending me the patch

1.3:
- Initial conversion to XFCE
- Added gui driven configuration
- A few cosmetic changes and improvements
- Some minor bug fixes

1.2:
- Updated various urls because usgs site changed theirs

1.1:
- Added feature to monitor earthquakes above a certain magnitude only
- A change in the preference file will now be noticed and propagated in the application for real, this happens at the time of an update (either the timed update or through the menu)
- Added "Region:" string to the map label and url, added some punctuations

1.0:
- Initial release