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duffman25
September 2nd, 2005, 12:10 PM
Hi

Is there any thread about cool desktop apps for gnome? I didn't find one, but other talking about other things, and mentioning some apps.

Here are my list:
beagle
f-spot
ifolder
tomboy
dashboard
gnome launch box

I've haven't tried all of them, but they look good.
Sorry if there's an ongoing thread about the same topic. If so, please refere to that thread & lock this one.

KingBahamut
September 2nd, 2005, 02:24 PM
ermmm.....gdesklets for gnome
karamba for kde

=)

earobinson
September 2nd, 2005, 02:33 PM
ohhh im going to dl f-spot

as for me:
Rhythmbox Applet - Rhythmbox Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control Rhythmbox's playback from a panel. You'll need Rhythmbox 0.8.0 or later installed for this to do anything useful. http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~kuliniew/rhythmbox-applet/

xmms has one to but its not as cool

duffman25
September 2nd, 2005, 06:12 PM
ermmm.....gdesklets for gnome
karamba for kde

=)

Hehe. I forgot gdesklets :)

jzke
September 11th, 2005, 05:36 AM
F-Spot (as you said) for Photo's
Banshee for Audio
GAIM (once you customize the interface to be simple and beautiful)
...

Freddy
September 11th, 2005, 11:19 AM
Kxdocker is a real nice Maclike docker and the 0.37 version should compile and run even on a Gnome desktop.
Some screenshots of it, http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=787&c=3
Where to find it, www.xiaprojects.com/www/prodotti/kxdocker/main.php /// Freddan

krusbjorn
September 11th, 2005, 11:42 AM
I personally like torsmo and gdeskcal. They're easy to use and dont take much recources. Although, to get torsmo to work in gnome, you need to stop nautilus from displaying your desktop, meaning no more desktop icons.

duffman25
October 4th, 2005, 07:08 PM
I personally like torsmo and gdeskcal. They're easy to use and dont take much recources. Although, to get torsmo to work in gnome, you need to stop nautilus from displaying your desktop, meaning no more desktop icons.

The new deskbar applet is AWESOME!
http://browserbookapp.sourceforge.net/deskbar-screencast.html

super
October 4th, 2005, 07:19 PM
dang!! that deskbar is beyond awesome. i wonder it can be integrated into the dashboard or gdesklets.

too bad i'm not a programmer.:(

gflores
October 4th, 2005, 08:26 PM
The new deskbar applet is AWESOME!
http://browserbookapp.sourceforge.net/deskbar-screencast.html
That is indeed awesome! For those that have it installed, is there a hotkey to focus the searchbar? Secondly, is there something similar available for KDE?

Stormy Eyes
October 4th, 2005, 09:14 PM
Conky (http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1026&original=1&c=7) has its uses.

duffman25
October 4th, 2005, 11:55 PM
That is indeed awesome! For those that have it installed, is there a hotkey to focus the searchbar? Secondly, is there something similar available for KDE?

I've read there's a bug asking for the hotkey.

theinvictus
October 5th, 2005, 03:15 AM
F-Spot (as you said) for Photo's
Banshee for Audio
GAIM (once you customize the interface to be simple and beautiful)
...

And how exactly do you do this?

duffman25
October 5th, 2005, 10:09 AM
And how exactly do you do this?

gaim can be themed, look for themes in gaims webpage. Also, the gaim extended preferences is a nice plugin for customizing the interface

duffman25
October 5th, 2005, 11:17 AM
deskbar-applet is in breezy according to this:
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/breezy-changes/2005-October/012347.html

kudos to the dev team!

Perfect Storm
October 5th, 2005, 11:25 AM
SETI http://mandrivausers.org/style_emoticons/default/banana.gif

Omnios
October 5th, 2005, 06:37 PM
For KDE id have to say Kuramba and Super Kuramba. There senssor apps aare very easy to mod (edit) to your sensor layout. Also seem to based on web stuff so you could possibly download a hole bunch for reference and make your own sensor app. Im in the process of thinking one up but not shure what I want yet. Thinking of the most fuctional for the smallest possibly resource footprint.

duffman25
October 7th, 2005, 12:14 AM
For KDE id have to say Kuramba and Super Kuramba. There senssor apps aare very easy to mod (edit) to your sensor layout. Also seem to based on web stuff so you could possibly download a hole bunch for reference and make your own sensor app. Im in the process of thinking one up but not shure what I want yet. Thinking of the most fuctional for the smallest possibly resource footprint.

Hey! gnome-launch-box is in breezy! Although is quite slow in searching for terms I must say it looks promising & very cool.

If your using it & want to add some keybindings for it go to gconf-edit
/apps/metacity/global_keybings & /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands.
In the first one, you can assign to a command_number a key-binding & in the second one you can assign to comand_number gnome-launch-box.

It's quite nice.

dbott67
October 7th, 2005, 05:18 PM
I'm just wondering what sort of cool applets people have installed, found or seen that made them go "Wow! That's really cool!"

1. Tilda - In another thread, someone mentioned a "drop-down terminal console" called Tilda (much like in the FPS game Quake & others where you press a special key to have a terminal console drop-down). I downloaded & installed it from Synaptic and find it very handy. (tilda.sf.net)

2. 3D Desktop - Requires a bit of video h.p. but it looks really cool. I installed it on one of my work computers. It allows you to switch between desktops in the coolest of ways. It's really just eye candy, but it makes the XP users really jealous! :) Available in Synaptic.

3. gDesklets - Again, just eye-candy, but it looks cool. It's a desktop widget-thingy similar to Konfabulator where you can have music, weather, time, network & resource status windows just floating there. Available in Synaptic.

Joshua
October 7th, 2005, 06:22 PM
Those look like difficult ones to follow. I'm gonna have to take them for a spin this weekend.

kingbilly
October 7th, 2005, 06:27 PM
tdfsb - a 3d file browser. It's like walking through your computer. Pictures are actually loaded and look like billboards among a city. I found it while browsing synaptic. My windows xp friends were upset that they couldn't get it.

ubuntu_demon
October 7th, 2005, 06:29 PM
beagle/best is promising :)

I moved this thread to community chat

bored2k
October 7th, 2005, 06:32 PM
Not eye candy based:

-VLC/Kaffeine media players: They do want I want them to do In the simplest ways.

-Kompose: Very cute, very lightweight.

-Konqueror: Doing everything from inside it is very appealing to me.

dbott67
October 7th, 2005, 06:44 PM
beagle/best is promising :)

I moved this thread to community chat


Thanks... sorry for posting in the wrong forum. :)

-Dave

openmind
October 7th, 2005, 06:51 PM
Filelight-Very cool app, shows your drive constuction in concentric rings, will even pick up other partitions.

drucer
October 7th, 2005, 06:53 PM
- MPlayer ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu )
- Ardour ( http://www.ardour.org )
- Enlightenment ( http://www.enlightenment.org )

EDIT: Do you mean apps or applets? What the heck, those are the coolest apps I've ever used :)

Ampersand
October 7th, 2005, 07:15 PM
Wanda the fish - I've had minutes of fun going through the fortunes.

ddate - I'm not sure if there's any reason that I'd need to know that Today is Setting Orange, the 61st day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3171...

gjiten/uim/kanjipad/kanatest - Some reasonably useful Japanese language type programs.

Dr. Nick
October 7th, 2005, 07:17 PM
Hmm tried tilda and seems sorta like a pain, I havent given up yet and am going to go through the options see if I cant it get set up to my liking.

Beagle seems promising aswell.

I'll add
* Wifi-Radar - Tool for connecting to wireless networks
* EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack and Monkey's Audio files, with a GTK+ GUI.
And the beloved PAN newsreader

GeneralZod
October 7th, 2005, 07:23 PM
-Kompose: Very cute, very lightweight.

-Konqueror: Doing everything from inside it is very appealing to me.

Seconding these - if only kompose updated in real-time :(

Konqueror, plus KDE's kio_slaves, is hands-down the best file-manager/ kitchen-sink I've ever used.

~J~
October 7th, 2005, 07:38 PM
Probably a question that's asked thousands of times but...

How do you get all those handy little apps on your screen like in...
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=2754&d=1128701835

And how do you get the screen to look like a Mac Toolbar and the tasks at the top like in...
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=2752&d=1128701549

Keep seeing this stuff but never know how to do it.

darkmatter
October 7th, 2005, 07:45 PM
I only have three words for you:

Project Looking Glass (http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/)

Dr. Nick
October 7th, 2005, 07:49 PM
Probably a question that's asked thousands of times but...

How do you get all those handy little apps on your screen like in...

That my friend looks like gdesklets to me :p (1st Picture)
Got to love the eyecandy despite the loss of system resources. I think he linked it in his 1st post

Should be available in synaptic you can try if you have a fairly decent machine to run it, if not try it anyway :) you could be surprised

His 2nd pic I think is the tilda app, Im tinkering with it now, thats a new one to me

~J~
October 7th, 2005, 07:54 PM
Thanks Dr.Nick, will take a look at those in a mo.

dbott67
October 7th, 2005, 07:57 PM
Probably a question that's asked thousands of times but...

How do you get all those handy little apps on your screen like in...


The screenshot pictured is just "borrowed" from the gDesklets site (I thought it put mine to shame). Attached is a screenshot of my work computer (Breezy) running gDesklets with a few network, HD, RAM & CPU widgets (plus a toolbar along the bottom). To answer your question, though: just install gDesklets from Synaptic and add some of the widgets to your desktop.


And how do you get the screen to look like a Mac Toolbar and the tasks at the top like in...

The Mac OSX knockoff is from http://www.gnome-look.org/. The link to the theme is here (http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=13548). Basically, I just installed the theme & then customized the upper & lower toolbars. Here's a thread (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=69560) that I talked about it on... you'll have to read through a few posts to get all the details, though.

-Dave

It looks like Dr. Nick beat me to the punch --- I've got to learn to type faster! :)

PS - Thanks, Dr. Nick!

~J~
October 7th, 2005, 08:01 PM
Really like the look of that MaxOS-X Aqua theme.

Thanks for the detailed instructions, will get onto it now.

Dr. Nick
October 7th, 2005, 08:08 PM
Cool shot, dont mean to stray way off topic but do you find the "starter bar" a pain? I couldnt stand it :) I solved that problem by just making some transparent panels
http://www.geocities.com/aebcoat/screenshot.jpg

dbott67
October 7th, 2005, 08:11 PM
- MPlayer ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu )
- Ardour ( http://www.ardour.org )
- Enlightenment ( http://www.enlightenment.org )

EDIT: Do you mean apps or applets? What the heck, those are the coolest apps I've ever used :)

Apps, applets, widgets... whatever you want. The cooler, the better! :)

BTW, I "enlightened" Hoary a few weeks ago, but lost it all in a horrible badger fight! :)

Dr. Nick
October 7th, 2005, 08:13 PM
BTW, I "enlightened" Hoary a few weeks ago, but lost it all in a horrible badger fight!

Heh I keep falling a bit off topic but did you "enlighten" to e16 or e17, I sorta got e16 on breezy but e17 was a big no go

Lovechild
October 7th, 2005, 08:27 PM
The GNOME desktop - if counted like one application, the environment is the single coolest app I've ever used.

poofyhairguy
October 7th, 2005, 08:32 PM
Breezy Totem.

Xcompmgr (I can't live without it now....it has really cut down on my dual booting)

Brightside (if you have heard of this look in the forums, its great)

Enlightenment (E17)

Least Cool:

any GTK 1 app. I can't beleive that gtk stuff was that ugly at one point.

dbott67
October 7th, 2005, 08:32 PM
Heh I keep falling a bit off topic but did you "enlighten" to e16 or e17, I sorta got e16 on breezy but e17 was a big no go

e16. As a standalone WM, I couldn't get a few things working right (I probably should've RTFM, but I couldn't be bothered). Anyhow, I followed one of the HOWTO's here and got it going inside of Gnome. Looked cool, but I still prefer Gnome.

-Dave

benplaut
October 7th, 2005, 09:19 PM
oh, my... this is hard...

Inkscape rocks, as do all things to do with vector :D

Gnome Art Tool is awesome... but it's a bit lacking in some sections - we need this for gnome-look!

Tomboy is really useful, but i really need to try newton...

mini-commander applet is the most useful thing since linux itself!

Goober
October 7th, 2005, 10:59 PM
Heh, gDesklets. I thought Widgets were awesome in OSX, now I can tell my friend who has OSX Tiger that I can get Widgets - free!

I can't get enough of gDesklets, they are the most awesome thing I've seen in awhile. I know, life is in the details.

Omnios
October 8th, 2005, 12:40 AM
KDE Kuramba, because its very easy to make your own. I sspend jsut over two days finsishing my senses sensor app. Coding was easy it was layout and placing all the graphaics, bars and graphs that took so long lol. Anyways if you use KDE you should have it a go. Coding is a no brainer probably eisier that HTML.

senses (http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1066&c=3)

http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/files/1/4/1/2/6/Senses.jpg

Its cool for me because im the only one that has it

Luke Redpath
October 8th, 2005, 02:25 AM
Heh, gDesklets. I thought Widgets were awesome in OSX, now I can tell my friend who has OSX Tiger that I can get Widgets - free!

I can't get enough of gDesklets, they are the most awesome thing I've seen in awhile. I know, life is in the details.

I've never been able to get any decent use out of gDesklets personally. Most of them look terrible and my desktop is hidden most of the time anyway.

bored2k
October 8th, 2005, 02:31 AM
I've never been able to get any decent use out of gDesklets personally. Most of them look terrible and my desktop is hidden most of the time anyway.
My exact same thought on them.

dbott67
October 8th, 2005, 02:40 AM
I've never been able to get any decent use out of gDesklets personally. Most of them look terrible and my desktop is hidden most of the time anyway.

In Hoary, I found that I couldn't get most of them to work, but in Breezy they work much better. I haven't played with Konfabulator or Widgets, so I really have nothing to compare them to, but the latest version of gDesklets is much improved.

-Dave

Dr. Nick
October 8th, 2005, 04:36 AM
If I recall correctly in gdesklets, atleast in breezy, can have a key combo to bring them all up to the top aswell.Konfabulator in windows has some more usefull widgets but also seems slower. The only useful desklet ive seen so far is the sidecandy weather, any "sensor" would be usefull aswell but I dont have that set up, but I hope since the core app is improved that the developtment of desklets will improve also

landotter
October 8th, 2005, 04:45 AM
I just discovered nicotine, a soulseek client--it's incredible!

Then there's Istanbul, a desktop movie taker--moving screenshot thingie--which is an awesome concept, I just can't make it work. LOL

Stuff that I use a lot:

Streamtuner: internet radio browser. Spectacular
Last.fm player: custom streaming HQ audio.

Stuff I rarely use:

Cinelerra: video editor. Insane, complex, and intriguing

tehwa
October 8th, 2005, 04:50 AM
gnome-terminal :p .

I'm a huge fan of Rhythmbox.

And Ardour, I'd love to learn how to use Ardour properly.

drogoh
October 8th, 2005, 05:06 AM
FSN 3D Navigator still totally rocks something fierce, even if it is 13 years old. You've seen it if you've seen Jurassic Park.

It's only for IRIX so unless you have a dusty, old SGI running 5.3 or below, you can't use it. :p

Link (http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html)

Cirkus
October 8th, 2005, 05:11 AM
If we're counting non-linux apps, then I have to say my favorite is a tie between poser, daz3d and bryce (I know there are better ones out there, but I can't afford them :().

HungSquirrel
October 8th, 2005, 09:10 AM
I personally like torsmo and gdeskcal. They're easy to use and dont take much recources. Although, to get torsmo to work in gnome, you need to stop nautilus from displaying your desktop, meaning no more desktop icons.
Torsmo works fine if you use single-buffered mode. Extract /usr/share/doc/torsmo/examples/torsmorc.sample.gz to your home directory and move the extracted file to .torsmorc, then edit away.


# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer no

ubuntu_demon
October 8th, 2005, 10:09 AM
I merged dbott67's thread into this one

HungSquirrel
October 8th, 2005, 01:35 PM
FSN 3D Navigator still totally rocks something fierce, even if it is 13 years old. You've seen it if you've seen Jurassic Park.
And here I thought Spielberg was making that crap up as he went along! Seeing a cutsey 3D rendering of a filesystem is a long way from the c-shell prompt I am used to when I think of 'Unix'. I guess you learn something new every day!

ubuntu_demon
October 8th, 2005, 02:03 PM
And here I thought Spielberg was making that crap up as he went along! Seeing a cutsey 3D rendering of a filesystem is a long way from the c-shell prompt I am used to when I think of 'Unix'. I guess you learn something new every day!
me too :-D

TheAreopagite
October 8th, 2005, 08:05 PM
Wow, it's been fun playing with all the toys in this thread. But ubuntu's clean desktop is something I've always liked, and a lot of these gadgets are less useful than the standard stuff: e.g. the clock/calendar in the top right hand corner of a standard install links directly to diary entries in evolution, and while the gnome panel app weather report doodad isn't as pretty as the one in gdesklets it does give me a weather forecast, which is more handy than a report, which I can get by looking out of the window, and there again, putting app launchers in the standard panels means they're always available, unlike the ones in the animated launchbar.

So having set up and played with all these toys, I then deleted most of them and went back to my nice clean desktop.

The problem is, I've also managed to delete the little widget that alerts you when there are updates available (standard in breezy). I liked that.

Anyone know how to get it back?


EDIT: right click panel, select 'add to panel', select 'notification area', click the add button. update reminder appears in notification area when updates next available.

Omnios
October 8th, 2005, 08:15 PM
For KDE if dock app footprint is a problem I would recomend Kuramba with apps that use the standard Kurumba scripting, CPU%, ram stats, temperature stuff, network. If you get one with limited graphics it will run very light on your system expecialy when running games. Then again you can just close the app if you get a heavy one. Tryed a few with sensors=program and found they used a bit of cpu loading one ran about 25% cpu load.

super
October 8th, 2005, 09:18 PM
engage!

i looks nice and it is lighter than a feather

majikstreet
October 9th, 2005, 01:56 AM
FSN 3D Navigator still totally rocks something fierce, even if it is 13 years old. You've seen it if you've seen Jurassic Park.

It's only for IRIX so unless you have a dusty, old SGI running 5.3 or below, you can't use it. :p

Link (http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html)
there is one for linux. http://fsv.sourceforge.net/ never used it though.

Dr. Nick
October 9th, 2005, 05:18 AM
engage!

i looks nice and it is lighter than a feather


Are you using hoary or breezy, Id love to use this in breezy but dont see how, could you briefly post which distro and where you got it?

Not sure how to get the update back, look asystem-administration-update manager and make sure its still their

I use the gdesklets weather since the one for gnome panel wouldnt get data at one time for my location. it was listed but always had an error, just checked and it seems to work now

HungSquirrel
October 9th, 2005, 11:43 AM
I tried installing it via the soulmachine.net repo and some deps didn't resolve.

super
October 9th, 2005, 01:55 PM
Are you using hoary or breezy, Id love to use this in breezy but dont see how, could you briefly post which distro and where you got it?
i am using hoary hedgehog and i installed it a few month's ago with smoon's repository but that is no longer being maintained. :(

try using this howto (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=61488) instead. i haven't tried it yet cause i gonna wait for breezy before i do any fiddling around on my system. :smile:

@hungsquirrel
ya, the soulmachine repo causes dep problems. i tried it once and go it working but you need to install the dependancies manually. you risk breakage :(

Dr. Nick
October 9th, 2005, 04:12 PM
try using this howto (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=61488) instead. i haven't tried it yet cause i gonna wait for breezy before i do any fiddling around on my system. :smile:

Yeah I tried that one, Didnt work for me, anyone else on breezy who tries that, dont install the files from debian llinked. libc6 their and breezy dont get along at all. If you cant get it to work with the Ubuntu libraries I dont know if i'd try much harder, but thats just me. I may try out the CVS thread mentioned soon. :)

duffman25
October 13th, 2005, 01:03 PM
skippy is cool, although it's a little bit slow.
http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php

poptones
October 19th, 2005, 04:46 PM
mped - the "minimum profit editor."

It's about an 80k download. This isn't a desktop app, but it's a very cool cli editor. It's not as powerful as vi, but it is VERY friendly in a dos-centric sort of way. If you're coming from the MS world, it gives you a very familiar text editor to work with when you're in recovery mode.

tonderai
October 30th, 2005, 10:53 AM
xdiskusage

Great for tracking down disk space to free up, with very intuitive navigation through the directory structure.

magnusbb
November 6th, 2005, 06:06 PM
Maybe I'm conservative, but I really like the standard desktop as it is. I theme it, of course, but I'm not using all the stash. Of course, I have tried it out, it's even installed - but not enabled at present.

GDesklets is interessting and funny, but a memory hog! GNOME itself runs slick on my computer, nothing to complain about really - but GDesklets is really slow!

exchequer598
October 20th, 2007, 11:52 AM
GDesklets is interessting and funny, but a memory hog! GNOME itself runs slick on my computer, nothing to complain about really - but GDesklets is really slow!

I agree.. Also, the list of available desklets is not very impressive, and also quite disorganized!

Perfect Storm
October 20th, 2007, 12:00 PM
Closed due to necromancing.