There’s a lot going on in the Universal Applets community at the moment, so I’ve decided to start writing semi-weekly wrap-up posts summarizing everything that’s happened. Here goes news roundup #1:

(Thanks, Kwaanens)
Forking
I know the news is already out all over the forums, so I’ll try to keep this short: There’s been some tension [...]

I’m reposting a shortened version of this email to the Gnome-love list. The bolded bit talks about the project’s current status.
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I’m trying to fix the problem by creating a universal applets framework for GNOME that’s mostly based on Screenlets. The goal is to create a common applet format that can be easily loaded into any [...]

See this for an explanation of what Desktop 2.0 is.
Here’s a quick mockup of a Growl-like notifications server for GNOME.

Update: Please see this forum thread for details.
What is “Desktop 2.0?”
“Desktop 2.0″ is to the operating system what Web 2.0 is to the Internet. The following are the key elements of Desktop 2.0 (unless you’re new to Linux, you may want to skip a large part of the following explanation and go directly to here):

Mini [...]

I’ve been doing GHOP tasks for the Gnome Online Desktop. My most recent task was to code an email stock for Bigboard. There’s a snapshot at the bottom of the post.
I’m about to begin working on a new app soon to edit and “remix” fdo iconsets. It’ll be the Linux equivalent of CandyBar. If you’re [...]