Toggl Desktop is now open source! 26.01

Great news for all of our Linux, Mac and Windows hackers!

We just released the new version of Toggl Desktop (v2.5) as open source. You can find the code at Launchpad.

The regular update procedure (the new version notification dialog) remains the same, so nothing changes for our users who are not interested in the C++ code. The new version is also available on our web page.

However, the new version brought some changes for our Linux users.

Since the new Toggl Desktop uses Qt4.6 and this is not yet in all the repositories then Linux users must enter a few commands to get the necessary dependencies. Here are the steps:

Ubuntu/Kubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/beta
sudo apt-get update
launch the installer

Debian

Unfortunately Debian repositories do not include the Qt4.6 yet (except the experimental), so Debian users will have to wait until the Qt4.6 is available in their repository.

The 64-bit Linux version will be available tomorrow.

UPDATE (Linux): You can now add Toggl Desktop to your repository sources list and use the native update mechanism:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:official-toggl/ppa
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install toggl-desktop

Cheers,

Toggl Team

16 Responses to “Toggl Desktop is now open source!”

Andrew France • January 27th, 2010 at 3:15 am

Um, “The requested URL /toggl-desktop-qt/toggl-desktop-2.5.0.0-1.deb was not found on this server.” after clicking on “Yes” to update.

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jaanus • January 27th, 2010 at 10:20 am

Andrew, the link is now fixed. Thanks!

Wes Alvaro • January 28th, 2010 at 5:37 pm

Yay! Long live Toggl!

Ramon Silva • January 29th, 2010 at 2:29 am

I’ve found this service while looking for time management tools. What brought me to this was the user interface that is very beautifull in comparison to the others services.
When I came to it, I saw that it’s very simple and powerful tool. For now i’m using the free version, but i’ll sign other plan when i make a deal with a new customer. (very soon i hope).

The only thing i’d like to point is that at least the reports should have a version in brazilian portuguese, cause i send it to my clients weekly.

Thanks a lot for sharing this tool!

Success for all you guys!

Ramon Silva
Rio de Janeiro (Wonderful City)
Brazil

Yves • January 29th, 2010 at 11:22 am

Hello,

I can’t find the 64-bit Linux version for Ubuntu 9.10 ?!

Thanks !

jaanus • January 29th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

Hi Yves. The blog post has now been updated with instructions how to get Toggl Desktop from the repositories. If you have a 64-bit Linux, you’ll automatically get the right version.