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I've been playing around with Ubuntu Application Development for a while, and have often noticed that the system has two lists of windows/applications - tasklist and pager. This has not...

***IGNORE: I've found window applets, an updated alternative***

Background information: I'm always a stickler for screen real estate.
Problem: I read a blog post from a couple of years ago about...

Does anyne know where the codes for all the gnome panel applets are? I want to develop one of the applets (the drawer) but I can't find it's original code anywhere...
Thanks in advance.

Applications is not the root of the tree - that's the issue, there's no 'main menu' root, there are just three, one for each menu.

I can mess around with what comes up on each of my menus (Apps-Places-System) with the Main Menu tool, except for removing entire menus (namely the System menu).
Could someone explain how this is...

I suspect I just have a dodgy drive, because I simply copied to my other drive and it was fine.

I've tried both AVI and MPEG, DVD::rip won't work either. Here's the log from DVD::rip:
Tue Apr 12 21:09:50 2011 Detected transcode version: 10105
Tue Apr 12 21:10:05 2011 Project file saved to...

Do you think I should install all the tools from that table (ffmpeg, xvid4conf etc.)? Looking at the descriptions I don't think I need the features, but in the preferences page it says my lack of RAR...

No worries, I've found it in the centre!

I can't find dvd::rip in the ubuntu software centre and on the website it looks very complicated. I've downloaded dvdrip-0.98.11.tar.gz and extracted, now what should I do?
I'm not sure if it would...

I've had Ubuntu for a few weeks now and never encountered major problems - except this one, which I've been unable to solve since I first installed.
I've been trying to rip DVDs, but my DVD Drive is...