Is this the time for shameless plugs? Whoa, this is a time for shameless plugs! Then let me introduce you
This is an astrologers’ sofware for the GNOME Desktop. Back when i started writing it, there were no free, usable software for astrology. So i took Astrodiest’s Swiss Ephemeris (SWE) library, wrapped it in a few GLib objects within the SWE-GLib library (also written by myself), and wrote AstroGNOME to display the data calculated by SWE.
After the planet positions are calculated i convert the data to XML, and with an XSL template i convert the whole thing into an SVG image. The XSL trick is needed so i can add multiple chart themes: each theme is an XSL template which can transform the really simple chart XML to the SVG image displayed by the renderer.
Unfortunately i don’t have enough time to develop this further, even though i have lots of plans. The graphics are really bad since i’m no designer by any means. The software itself is buggy, but used to work (i have no idea if it even compiles in its current state).
So that’s it. I’m really proud of what i wrote back a few (6-7) years ago, and i’m really sad i don’t have time to move it forward yet. Let’s hope i will soon.