This is a Gnome port of the old Moon Tool program (originally for the Sun, but now available on many OS's). The original program was written by John Walker, who now maintains the Windoze version. I've added a GTK+ interface to the Sun version, but otherwise left it largely unchanged.
There are lots of things still to do on this, which I will get around to quite soon (after my exams are finished) like: documentation, ability to set the date or move forwards and backwards through time, updating the calculations to make sure they are in line with the most resent version for Windoze and making an alternative version which works as a Gnome panel applet.
To use the program just run it and look at the numbers and the little picture. If you iconify it you might see the moon picture as the icon, depending on your window manager. If you click in the window with any mouse button it will give you a menu.
By the way, this Moon Tool has a new feature: I've hacked bits of ddate into it to display the current date in the Discordian calendar. You can turn that on or off from the menu.
News
Version 1.2 adds some minor Gnomification. The difference is hardly noticable, but it opens the way for further improvements like making it a panel applet (hopefully in the next version).
This program is now under the GPL. Version 1.0 was published as public domain in the same spirit as the original, but I've added some partial i18n stuff (with a French translation, thanks Gaston) which needs some GPLed bits.
Download
moontool-1.2.tar.gz (192Kb) — source code, easy to compile and install.
The old versions; you probably don't want to use them:
Screenshot
Links
An online MoonTool (with a nice picture)
Moontool for Windows (screenshot)
moontool.shar.gz Moontool for OpenLook or SunView (screenshot)
