Free beautiful software for linux

Beautiful Soup project is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful:

Beautiful Soup wont choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need and run away.
Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need. You dont have to create a custom parser for each application.
Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. You dont have to think about encodings, unless the document doesnt specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup cant autodetect one. Then you just have to specify the original encoding.

Beautiful Soup parses anything you give it, and does the tree traversal stuff for you. You can tell it "Find all the links", or "Find all the links of class externalLink", or "Find all the links whose urls match "foo.com", or "Find the table heading thats got bold text, then give me that text."

Valuable data that was once locked up in poorly-designed websites is now within your reach. Projects that would have taken hours take only minutes with Beautiful Soup.

Beos provides a beautiful set of icons.

Matthew McClintock created a beautiful set of icons for Mac OS X, that I converted to create this icon theme about one the best desktop OS I know.

For the moment, the theme is not fully complete: some of the mime icons are defined. I will finalize it later.

wxAUI is an Advanced User Interface library for the wxWidgets toolkit.
wxAUI is an Advanced User Interface library that aims to implement "cutting-edge" interface usability and design features so developers can quickly and easily create beautiful and usable application interfaces.
wxAUI attempts to encapsulate the following aspects of the user interface:
Frame Management: Frame management provides the means to open, move and hide common controls that are needed to interact with the document, and allow these configurations to be saved into different perspectives and loaded at a later time.
Toolbars: Toolbars are a specialized subset of the frame management system and should behave similarly to other docked components. However, they also require additional functionality, such as "spring-loaded" rebar support, "chevron" buttons and end-user customizability.
Modeless Controls: Modeless controls expose a tool pallete or set of options that float above the application content while allowing it to be accessed. Usually accessed by the toolbar, these controls disappear when an option is selected, but may also be "torn off" the toolbar into a floating frame of their own.
Look and Feel: Look and feel encompasses the way controls are drawn, both when shown statically as well as when they are being moved. This aspect of user interface design incorporates "special effects" such as transparent window dragging as well as frame animation.
wxAUI adheres to the following principles:
Use native floating frames to obtain a native look and feel for all platforms
Use existing wxWidgets code where possible, such as sizer implementation for frame management
Use classes included in wxCore and wxBase only
Use standard wxWidgets coding conventions
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for wxMac.
- It includes better support for wxWidgets 2.6.3, as well as fixes for display glitches, crashes, and other minor bugs.

Bralkomon is another system monitor Superkramba theme. It is based on Cynapses.

If you have a beautiful lady coming round, or maybe you just want to chill; put on some smooth jazz, put Bralkomon on your desktop, and let the good times roll.

Did I mention Bralkomon is scientifically designed to be the perfect accompaniment to smooth jazz? Oh yeah.

P.S. You might want to change the name of the network device. The .skz file is just a ZIP archive. Open it up, and edit the .theme file. Instructions lie within.

XIGE project is a window manager belonging to a new generation of programs with different form, style, color and functionality, where you has the necessary, a beauty environment and the best thing, computing resources are saved for their slight feature.
The possibility also opens up of forgetting the common, the routine and the past, to see now, something new.
XIGE is a window manager for X Window System, developed on linux with GPL license, but with the capacity to be executed in other specification platforms POSIX like Solaris, BSD, and other UNIX systems.
It doesnt depend on extra libraries and it has been implemented in "C" from scratch. Their philosophy tries to stop the adaptation a little that at the moment has the software toward the new technologies, which have generated heavy programs, high resources consumers and an incredible capacity of discarding hardware!
The graphic environment has been implemented with new functionalities trying to avoid the monotony of the traditional window managers, optimizing resources, shortcuts functions and methodologies applied in the existent programs. All these characteristics make part of the Xilicius philosophy, which I take very interesting ideas of the operation of the "lwm" (and ACME: To User Interface for Programmers) but it interprets them in a way but more wide.
Main features:
Themes support
- The general appearance can be configured by means of the proportionate options, setting the border windows, fonts, textures, colors, pointers, background screen (XIGESetRoot), elements size and other visual aspects. The Themes are files that define the previous aspects in a simple way, easy to understand, and providing thousands of different appearances.
Movement window configuration
- Movement with the content of applications or without this (opaque movement).
Orientation mouse (left - right)
Complete keyboard support
- All the functions are available to be executed from the keyboard, related with menus and windows by means of configurable shortcuts.
Current functions
- Minimize, Maximize and close applications
- Dsiplay and handling menus
- Change Application to the "Alt+Tab" style
- Option of choosing the shortcuts keys
- Option of disabling partially or all functions
Personal profile
- In the multiuser environments its possible to load preferences kept in system or personal directory.
Excellent and beautiful Graphics
- Exist the classic solid textures and the possibility of having great beautiful variety available gradients for almost all the components.
Quick configuration with the "xigeconfig" tool
- xigeconfig is a used tool to set the main features environment. Now, xigeconfig graphic version its able to have the enough reach for users that wish to model the quick options easily.
Complete Mouse configuration with "xigeconfig"
- XIGE offers total custom support for the pointer.
Shade Windows (Function only from keyboard shortcut)
- Shade Windows is a new feature demanded by "blackb..." users, Its Here !

Number::Bytes::Human is a Perl module that can convert byte count to human readable format.

SYNOPSIS

use Number::Bytes::Human qw(format_bytes);
$size = format_bytes(0); # 0
$size = format_bytes(2*1024); # 2.0K

$size = format_bytes(1_234_890, bs => 1000); # 1.3M
$size = format_bytes(1E9, bs => 1000); # 1.0G

# the OO way
$human = Number::Bytes::Human->new(bs => 1000, si => 1);
$size = $human->format(1E7); # 10MB
$human->set_options(zero => -);
$size = $human->format(0); # -

THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE: THE DOCUMENTATION AND THE CODE WILL SUFFER CHANGES SOME DAY (THANKS, GOD!).

This module provides a formatter which turns byte counts to usual readable format, like 2.0K, 3.1G, 100B. It was inspired in the -h option of Unix utilities like du, df and ls for "human-readable" output.

From the FreeBSD man page of df: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=df

"Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the
number of digits to four or fewer using base 2 for sizes.

byte B
kilobyte K = 2**10 B = 1024 B
megabyte M = 2**20 B = 1024 * 1024 B
gigabyte G = 2**30 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B
terabyte T = 2**40 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B

petabyte P = 2**50 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B
exabyte E = 2**60 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B
zettabyte Z = 2**70 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B
yottabyte Y = 2**80 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B

I have found this link to be quite useful:

http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/

If you feel like a hard-drive manufacturer, you can start counting bytes by powers of 1000 (instead of the generous 1024). Just use bs => 1000.

But if you are a floppy disk manufacturer and want to start counting in units of 1024000 (for your "1.44 MB" disks)? Then use bs => 1_024_000.

If you feel like a purist academic, you can force the use of metric prefixes according to the Dec 1998 standard by the IEC. Never mind the units for base 1000 are (B, kB, MB, GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB, YB) and, even worse, the ones for base 1024 are (B, KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB, YiB) with the horrible names: bytes, kibibytes, mebibytes, etc. All you have to do is to use si => 1. Aint that beautiful the SI system? Read about it:

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

You can try a pure Perl "ls -lh"-inspired command with the one-liner, er, two-liner:

$ perl -MNumber::Bytes::Human=format_bytes
-e printf "%5s %sn", format_bytes(-s), $_ for @ARGV *

Why to write such a module? Because if people can write such things in C, it can be written much easier in Perl and then reused, refactored, abused. And then, when it is much improved, some brave soul can port it back to C (if only for the warm feeling of painful programming).

ZynAddSubFX is a opensource software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heared from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that youll boost to an amazing universe of sounds.
ZynAddSubFX project started in March 2002, and I had written it because I wish to make a synthesizer that produces very beautiful sounds, but which is freely available to anybody who needs it.
Main features:
- realtime synthesizer
- polyphonic (allows playing more than one note at once), mutlitimbral (allows playing more than one instrument at once) synth
- Microtonal capabilities with any scale, any number of notes per octave (well... the no. of notes per octave must be less than 128) and keymapping
- 3 synthesiser engines: 1) first (called "ADsynth" or "ADnote") is a complex engine which makes sounds by adding a number of voices. Each one has filters, envelopes, LFOs, morphing, modulation (Ring Modulation, Phase Modulation... the modulators can have any shape), resonance, etc. Each voice includes a very powerful waveform generator with up to 128 sine/nonsine harmonics. You can use Fourier synthesis or if you dont like it you can waveshaping/filtering of functions. This engine includes antialiasing.
- 2) second (called "SUBsynth" or "SUBnote") is a simpler engine who allows to make sounds by subtraction of harmonics of sounds from white noise
- 3) third (called "PADsynth" or "PADnote") is engine that makes very beautifull pads and other instruments.
- Instruments can be orgainzed in kits, which alows you to make drum kits or layered(mixed) instruments; this makes possible to use more than one instrument for a single part. It is possible to choose what items from the kit should be processed by the Parts effects.
- Effects: Reverb, Echo, Chorus/Flange, Phaser,AlienWah (its a kind of vocal morpher), Distorsion(Waveshaping), EQ, DynamicFilter
- The effects can behave as System Effects or as Insertion Effects; this allows to use many effects at the same time. You can put any insertion effect on any part(or more insertion effects to same parts, if you like so) or you can put the insertion effect to Master output (very usefull if you use the EQ effect). Also, you can have instruments effect (that is saved with the instrument).
- Filters up to 60dB/octave (or more..); filters can be analogic (LPF,HPF, BPF,etc.), formant(advanced formant filters) and state variable (SVF)
- Envelopes can have ADSR (or ASR, etc..) modes or can be free modes (with any shape)
- Many settings has a "randomness" option, which you can make instruments that every time produces a subtle different sound; this produces a very pleasent effect (like analogue synths or natural instruments that cant produces exactly same sound twice). Because of this, even if it is digital synthesis, it sounds "warm". Listen the ogg vorbis demos from this page to hear this effect.
- the specifications can be easily chaged, so (for example) if you want to change the number of voices or parts to a higher value or to allow a higher number of effects at the same time, there is necessary to chage only a single value from the source file (globals.h) and to recompile the program
- Intuitive and easy to use User Interface with Clipboard and many objects has user presets
- Midi support (supports many controllers) and (if you want) JACK support
- the program has Virtual Keyboard which let you to use it even if you dont have a real midi keyboard
- the graphical user interface can be completely disabled if the user need so
- it is a free program, licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License
- there are over 300 high quality instruments included into the package
- many other features.... It is is impossible to describe all this programs features in just a page
Enhancements:
- made to work with mxml-2.2 (will NOT work on older versions)
- it is possible to remove completely the graphical user interface (e.g. it can run without X). For this you need to modify the DISABLE_GUI option from the Makefile.inc
- added a commandline -L which load a instrument (.xiz) - now it only loads to part 0 (you can use this option with -l to load a master file and after this the option -L to replace the part)

Escape of the Unicorn project is a side-scrolling, 2D flying shooter game.
Welcome to the land of miraculous creatures.
Take a risk and play the game called
Escape of the Unicorn.
You play a unicorn,
a noble and most beautiful animal,
the most beautiful to have ever existed.
Your goal is to escape
from a cave full of monsters and traps.
You can move with the arrow keys and fire missiles.
Every missile can harm a monster if it is aimed well.
Beware of the monsters and lasers.
They decrease your energy when you touch them.
The same happens when you hit walls.
Some creatures may also shoot fireballs.
Be careful at all times.
When you are out of energy,
you die and lose the game.
Enhancements:
- Levels now have more complex shape
- 3 crafted levels
- Per-object speed control, and new types of interactions
- New game objects such as Puff Fish, Wall Spikes, Bloops
- Walls no longer damage player, immunity time much shorter