About gDesklets

gDesklets is a system for bringing mini programs (desklets), such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or music player controls, onto your desktop, where they are sitting there in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. The possibilities are really endless and they are always there to serve you whenever you need them, just one key-press away. The system is not restricted to one desktop environment, but currently works on most of the modern Unix desktops (including GNOME, KDE, Xfce).

• Desklet and control installation
  March 2nd 2007
  
  We're currently transitioning to a new way of installing controls and desklets. This basically means that desklets that are installed via this site need the controls they depend on. These controls need to be installed manually to ~./gdesklets/Controls.
  
  So to install control X:

  1. Download the control from this site
  2. Unpack the package with your favorite package manager to ~/.gdesklets/Controls
  3. Now your desklets should be able to use control X

  
  This might seem a bit difficult right now, but it will make life easier in th
• Forum removed
  February 16th 2007
  
  I have removed the forum for now. Discussion over everything related to gDesklets should be done via the mailing list. See this for instructions. Also it is possible to contact some of us through IRC @ #gdesklets on irc.gimp.org
• Website is entering beta
  February 8th 2007
  

  I've submitted a bunch of my own controls and desklets and I'm confident enough to say that the website should now work. If something fails, please contact me directly » lauri(AT)sokkelo(DOT)net.

  New and old developers might want to check out the short info page

• Login problems via gdesklets.de == UPDATE ==
  January 29th 2007
  
  Login is currently not possible through gdesklets.de because the real domain is at gdesktlets.linuxprofessionals.org and when logging in from gdesklets.de the cookie on your computer is set for gdesklet.de and not for gdesktlets.linuxprofessionals.org. This issue is security related and work-arounds are being considered. Hopefully the issue will be solved in the future. Meanwhile please use the form here to login. The issue has been fixed. You can now also login through http://www.gdesklets.de
• The new dawn of gDesklets
  January 25th 2007
  
  Hooray. The site is so near to completion that I can smell it!