http://theesylum.com Where the Web Looneys Live Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:53:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You'll need at least Universal Applets revision 495, but developers can now add image-menus to their own screenlets with only a few lines of code. http://theesylum.com/2008/08/28/wallpaperclock-thumbnails/ It's still buggy and missing a lot of features, but as of revision 469 check out the following: $ melange --replace & $ /usr/local/share/screenlets/SidebarUA/SidebarScreenlet.py & $ /usr/local/share/screenlets/Meter/MeterScreenlet.py --server=Sidebar $ /usr/local/share/screenlets/DigiClock/DigiClockScreenlet.py --server=Sidebar Also, drop me a comment if you know of any out-of-branch screenlets whose authors haven't been contacted yet. http://theesylum.com/2008/08/18/sidebar-magic/ Its time! Cast your vote for Universal Applet's new name over at doodle, (Re)cast your vote at Zoho or drop a comment below with a new name. http://theesylum.com/2008/06/29/vote-vote-vote/ Universal Applets needs it's own forums. Up until now, we've been using the Screenlets forums, despite it's history of flamewars and rampant accusations. Last week, I announced my decision to fork Screenlets after Whise (the main developer of Screenlets) started making new public accusations against me on the forums. This week, ... http://theesylum.com/2008/06/24/forums-that-dont-magically-make-posts-disappear/ 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: ... http://theesylum.com/2008/06/20/ua-news-roundup/ I've ran into some problems with window shaping due to a gtk bug. I'm working around it, but I'm going to push off the release until next week. Thanks to everyone who has helped out with testing. http://theesylum.com/2008/05/16/bugs-workarounds-and-delays/ For those of you who have been wondering why I haven't pushed any revisions to Universal Applets lately, this video should be enough of an explanation. (Thanks to Qball for taking the screencast.) No, that's not a simple Applet/Screenlet. The bouncing ball is going to be integrated with Universal Applets in ... http://theesylum.com/2008/04/16/silent-coding/ NOTE: Some of this post is no longer relevant. Please use Universal Applet's internal documentation. At the moment, there's very little documentation for developers describing the Universal Applets architecture. I'm hoping to roll out a stable release within the next week or two, and I should have the time to write ... http://theesylum.com/2008/03/30/universal-applets-overview/ Ubuntu Brainstorm is quite nice. I submitted my first idea today: I had some trouble booting into my computer earlier this week. It's fixed now, but the Universal Applets release that I promised will be delayed by a few days. http://theesylum.com/2008/03/13/ubuntu-brainstorm-and-a-quick-update/ For those of you that are trying to follow my Universal Applets development, things are a bit of a mess. There are two forum threads and several emails to several different lists. To make things a bit easier to follow, I'm going to repost everything of importance on this blog. This thread ... http://theesylum.com/2008/02/29/where-to-find-news-on-universal-applets/