Hello,
Do you remember Konfabulator [1][2] - a XUL motor
for Mac OS X - that lets you create desktop applets
(aka widgets) using Javascript and XML?
Now thanks to gDesklets and Martin Grimme you can
create applets for the Linux Gnome Desktop using
Python and XML.
Martin writes:
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.
Now if you wonder what a gDesklets looks like allow
me to quote Martin from the "How to Make Desklets"
tutorial:
We will begin with the obligatory 'Hello World!'
desklet, which is very easy with gDesklets. Save the
.display file as hello.display and run it with
gDesklets. This is a static desklet that doesn't make
use of any sensors.
<display window-flags="sticky" bg-color="white">
<label value="Hello, World of Desklets!"
font="Serif 20" color="red"/>
</display>
For many more real-world gDesklets stop at the
official gDesklets catalog site (online @
http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org ) that lists more
than one hundred ready-to-use examples divided into a
dozen categories such as date & time, alarms & alerts,
news, weather, music & audio, internet & email and so
on.
Full story @
http://www.pycage.de/software_gdesklets.html and
http://www.pycage.de/howto_desklets.html and
http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org
- Gerald
[1]
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xul.announce/201
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xul.announce/202
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