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gDesklets - GNOME Desktop Applets

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gDesklets provides an advanced architecture for desktop applets - tiny
displays sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and
usefulness.
Populate your desktop with status meters, icon bars, weather sensors,
news tickers... whatever you can imagine! Virtually anything is possible and
maybe even available some day.

Here are some screenshots to whet your appetite:

The system consists of three parts: the gDesklets core (a daemon running in
the background), the Sensors (providing data and processing user actions), and
the Displays (what you will see on the screen).
New Displays can be put together by simply composing widgets and Sensors in a
XML file. Advanced users may also create new Sensors easily.

As of now, Sensors are restricted to Python modules, but we are planning to
extend this to scripting languages like Perl and Ruby, and to C as well.

You can get gDesklets from:
www.pycage.de/software_gdesklets.html

Have fun!

Martin Grimme
Christian Meyer
Jesse Andrews

Re: gDesklets - GNOME Desktop Applets

On my system (debian-unstable) I can't figure out how to get the desklets to have that cool transparent/translucent background; instead, I get solid grey. Is there a configuration option somewhere I'm missing?

You should at least have:

ii python2.2 2.2.3-4 An interactive high-level object-oriented language

ii python2.2-gnome2 1.99.16-3 Python bindings for GNOME 2

ii python2.2-gtk2 1.99.17-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widget set

ii python2.2-pyorbit 1.99.6-2 A Python language binding for the ORBit2 CORBA implementat

ii python2.2-xml 0.8.2-3 XML tools for Python (2.2.x)

ii python2.2-xmlbase 2.2.3-4 XML support included in Python (v2.2)

Is this another misconfiguration thing, or is it impossible to drag-drop starters to the starter bar?

Drag 'n drop will be implemented soon. Maybe already in 0.11. If not it'll be introduced in 0.12.

HTH,

chrisime