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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

Are there plans to put this in GNOME CVS and make a Bugzilla product? Or at least have a mailing list? I fixed a couple of small bugs last night while installing and playing around and it would be good to have somewhere to put them.

Also, as another comment pointed out, as gDesklets get used on various systems, you will start to see usability problems like things being unreadable in some circumstances (against the background I had, for example). People are going to need a place to report those.

But this is really superb stuff! Congratulations.

Malcolm Tredinnick (not about to create an account for the one time I want to comment)