at a 1st look the kagu works seem empressive, Ill cross check everythin and see how much i will understand about the entire topic.
I am waiting for someone came up with a comment about the advantages to use the alarmd. My (limited) experience is that the daemon is not really reliable. It hang and there is no easy way to be sure if the thing is running or whatever. My actual approach here is: if the application is running the alarm works, otherwise 'ciccia', no alarm. Maybe Im missing something (im really far from being a linux expert) so, in case noone will showup with something convincing to try to use the alarmd ill keep comparing the alarm variable setted directly from inside the clock.
PS Ill think a decent way to kill the app...