Working hamster time tracker?

[Kevin Oberman]

For some time I have wanted to use the time tracker, but either it is
broken or I am doing something wrong on multiple systems. It always
fails because it does not pull in py-notify, but installing that does
not help much. Now I get:
** (hamster-time-tracker:33203): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype
'WnckWindowState' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (hamster-time-tracker:33203): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype
'WnckWindowActions' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (hamster-time-tracker:33203): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype
'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.258:/org/gnome/Hamster:
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply:
Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/hamster-time-tracker", line 530, in <module>
    getattr(WindowServer(), window)()
  File "/usr/local/bin/hamster-time-tracker", line 459, in main
    self.app = ProjectHamster()
  File "/usr/local/bin/hamster-time-tracker", line 37, in __init__
    self.new_name = widgets.ActivityEntry()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hamster/widgets/activityentry.py",
line 102, in __init__
    self.populate_suggestions()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hamster/widgets/activityentry.py",
line 225, in populate_suggestions
    self.activities =
runtime.storage.get_activities(input_activity.activity_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hamster/client.py",
line 135, in get_activities
    return self._to_dict(('name', 'category'), self.conn.GetActivities(search))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line
68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line
143, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py",
line 630, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.258 was not
provided by any .service files
Exit 1

Does this port work for anyone? Any ideas why it is failing? Any idea
what "1:258" is?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com