Homestuck Desktop Buddies

The Homestuck Kids, now on your desktop! Watch them hang around while you try to work, study, or do anything remotely productive! Don't let them distract you too much! The program also notifies you whenever Homestuck^2 updates, connecting to the Homestuck^2 RSS feed every 30 seconds. No more update checking, since Homestuck^2 won't have a regular update schedule anymore.

Supports multi monitor setups (in theory, at least it works on mine).

Currently only John, Rose, Dave and Jade are available, but I plan on adding  the Alpha kids eventually.

Linux version coming soon!
Linux version already here (that was a Homestuck reference. Laugh).

The Linux version may be a little buggy, depending on the Desktop Environment or Window Manager you use, so please feel free to report any bugs you encounter.

Please note that you need to have some sort of system tray in order to close the program, since it minimizes to the tray when you close it normally. Otherwise, you'll have to kill it through your terminal.

Source code available here!

Things I plan on adding eventually:

• All the kids, Beta and Alpha.
• Different clothes for each kid (like God Tier outfits) and change the animations depending on the current outfit.
• Option to select active monitor in case of a multi monitor setup.
• Option to disable checking for Homestuck^2 updates.  It no longer checks for updates, so there's that.
• An actual about page.

This project is pretty much done, maybe I'll update it if it needs bugfixes or something. It was fun to do, but I have other stuff to work on now. It's still kind of sad that the last update removes features instead of adding them, though.

Changelog:

Version 1.0.0:

• Removed the update checking functionality, since Homestuck^2 won't have a regular update schedule anymore.
• Removed the spot for the Alpha Kids, since they won't be added.

Version 0.3.1:

• Changed the way to check for updates, it now checks with the Homestuck^2 RSS feed instead of upd8.ninja.

Version 0.3.0:

• Added Rose.

Version 0.2.0:

• Added Jade.

Version 0.1.1:

• Changed the way notifications work.
• Added the Linux version.

Version 0.1.0:

• Added John and Dave.