The one thing that appealed me in UBUNTU was the cool effects when you navigate, move or close a window. The slight wiggle that you get when you drag the windows makes it look a bit flashy. It looks even more flashier on my 19 inch ultra bright display. To make my desktop look a bit more cool, i started out this new journey and started looking at themes and wallpapers for UBUNTU ( my attempt to work with TUX).
After going through various forums and many more other related sites, I discovered that UBUNTU supports something known as desklets. I found two categories gdesklets and adesklets though i am not qualified enough to tell how different are these from each other. However, I chose to go go with adesklets simply because these were written in python and i am python literate. However, understanding these adesklets is still beyond my reach.
One can install it via synaptic package manager quite easily. Once installed i could easily download the various adesklets from here ( you can also do it via the following command sudo adesklets_installer in the terminal window). If you are running UBUNTU Hardy and are running on a 64-bit AMD machine then you will run into issues. It makes me smile, because so far nothing with UBUNTU has gone without me spending some time reading forums ( a lot threads!!). Please have a look at this in case you hit a road block.
You can install a lot of cool looking desklets and use your imagination to create great looking desktops. So let your creative juices flow!!.
After going through various forums and many more other related sites, I discovered that UBUNTU supports something known as desklets. I found two categories gdesklets and adesklets though i am not qualified enough to tell how different are these from each other. However, I chose to go go with adesklets simply because these were written in python and i am python literate. However, understanding these adesklets is still beyond my reach.
One can install it via synaptic package manager quite easily. Once installed i could easily download the various adesklets from here ( you can also do it via the following command sudo adesklets_installer in the terminal window). If you are running UBUNTU Hardy and are running on a 64-bit AMD machine then you will run into issues. It makes me smile, because so far nothing with UBUNTU has gone without me spending some time reading forums ( a lot threads!!). Please have a look at this in case you hit a road block.
You can install a lot of cool looking desklets and use your imagination to create great looking desktops. So let your creative juices flow!!.
2 comments:
Neat! I have been using Ubuntu for - I can say more than 'a while' now, and I did not know about desklets.
Not sure if it is what I think it is, but I think it would be great if I can customize it to allow me to post titbits into my blog right from my desktop. Even Twitter perhaps. I do not know much about Python scripting, but I do know my Drupal powered blog provides a XML-RPC to connect to it.
But then again, are desklets only for retrieving information and not pushing it?
Yeah. Af far as i know you can just get information ( like CPU usage, Calender, Climate info, share prices etc.) Maybe if there could be something like you mentioned, that would be interesting.
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