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).

• 0.40 prototype gets ready for launch
  April 24th 2007
  
  The prototype of 0.40 has been uploaded on Launchpad and the main focus of development is currently there. The launchpad site is at launchpad.net/gdesklets.
  The prototype isn't currently very usable. If you wish to help development, just join the gDesklets team and checkout the bazaar branch. There's multiple HACKING text files in the prototype to help you get started and ROADMAP tells you about the most crucial features that need implementing. Of course it's advisable to contact people on the ma
• Website updates
  April 22nd 2007
  
  Control submissions can now be done with the help of manifest files: simple plain text files that are added to control packages to define metadata.
• Adding and viewing contact information is now possible
  March 14th 2007
  
  Notice to all members: You may now add email addresses, instant messaging IDs and nicknames to your account information. To add the information click on the link "my account" and select "Contact information". Everyone may see the information you have added by clicking on your username and can then easily contact you.
• 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