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 [...]
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I just pushed the first real commit of my branch of Screenlets to Launchpad.
It’s still a regression from the end users perspective. Don’t bother looking at it unless you’re a developer. There’s a slightly longer explanation here.
Quick side note: I really need to write a whole post about GHOP. For now, I’d just like [...]
I’ve created a new branch of Screenlets on Launchpad for Universal Applets. Right now the branch is just the same as trunk, but I’ll be pushing a revision soon.
Here’s a screenshot of how things are looking right now:
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 [...]
Leoparddocks.com has a great collection of dock backgrounds that can be used both for Leopard and Awn. Thanks to Triberious on the Awn forums for pointing them out.
I found some additional textures for Awn on this website. Some of the nicer ones are below.
Note: If you’d like to just get to the good stuff then skip down to here.
Ubuntu Linux with Mac4Lin
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is scheduled to be released in about 24 hours. One of Leopard’s key features is a much improved gui and design that has been hailed by many as revolutionary.
Mac users and Apple [...]
I know that this is one day late, but Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) has been officially released! PPC downloads are here.
Check it out, Awn 0.2 is here.
I know that lately, I haven’t blogged much about anything. I’ve been dealing with problems on my server, and in most of my free time I’ve been playing around with Linux. This week, for the first time since I downloaded Ubuntu Linux a few months ago, I spent more time using Linux then Mac [...]