Free colorful software for linux

Color::Scheme is a module used to generate pleasant color schemes.

This module is a Perl implementation of Color Schemes 2, a color scheme generator. Start by visitng the Color Schemes 2 web site and playing with the colors.

When you want to generate those schemes on the fly, begin using this modoule. The descriptions herein dont make too much sense without actually seeing the colorful results.

Henceforth, paragraphs in quotes denote documentation copied from Color Schemes 2.

"Important note: This tool doesnt use the standard HSV or HSB model (the same HSV/HSB values ie. in Photoshop describe different colors!). The color wheel used here differs from the RGB spectre used on computer screens, its more in accordance with the classical color theory.

This is also why some colors (especially shades of blue) make less bright shades than the basic colors of the RGB-model. In plus, the RGB-model uses red-green-blue as primary colors, but the red-yellow-blue combination is used here.

This deformation also causes incompatibility in color conversions from RGB-values. Therefore, the RGB input (eg. the HTML hex values like #F854A9) is not exact, the conversion is rough and sometimes may produce slightly different color."

"Circus Linux!" is a clone of the Atari 2600 game "Circus Atari," produced by Atari, Inc. (which is itself a clone of an earlier arcade game named, simply "Circus").
The object is to move a teeter-totter back and forth across the screen to bounce clowns up into the air. When they reach the top, they pop rows of balloons and then fall back down.
(The gameplay is similar to the classics "Breakout" and "Arkanoid.")
Main features:
Game Modes:
- One- and two-players
- Two-player cooperative
- Barriers mode
- Bouncy balloons mode
- Clear-all mode
Graphics:
- Colorful, cartoon-like images
- Animated objects and background
- Nearly 70 objects on screen at once
- Fullscreen mode
- Random circus acts in the background
Sound:
- Upbeat circus-style music
- Many cartoonish sound effects
- Sound and music volume controls
Controls:
- Mouse
- Keyboard
- Joystick
- Real Atari 2600 Paddle controllers!

GLCARS project is Gregors LCARS theme for KDE. LCARS is the computer system from Star Trek.

Believe it or not, I didnt create this solely because Im such a trekkie. My main reason is that LCARS (though not real) is a sensible theme for tablet PCs.

Ive also created a fairly gawdy widget set. Its included in the download, but is not in the default theme. You can install it afterwards. Its bright, colorful, and has pill-shaped buttons, like LCARS.

If youd like your panel to look like mine in the screenshot:

1) Move you main panel to the left of the screen.
2) Set its width to 100*(w/1600), where w is the width of your screen.
3) Make it transparent.
4) Add buttons to it as you please (the images I used are included)
5) Create a KasBar, put it at the top of the screen. Make it large for 1024x768, perhaps larger for higher resolutions.
Note: You may have to mess around with kasbar to make it work properly. I cant help much, sorry.
6) Add another panel, also aligned to the top.
7) Adjust your new panels height to taste. I have mine set to 54, for a 1024x768 screen.

The Ace of Penguins project is a X11 solitaire card games.

This package includes freecell, golf, mastermind, merlin, minesweeper, pegged, solitaire, taipei, and thornq, plus a solitaire toolkit so that you can write your own games.

These games are modelled after the Windows(tm) versions, with several enhancements, including a more colorful "Linux-y" theme.

Its basic principle is heavily influenced by Gnomes Sabayon. Instead of the desktop though, cft is focused on traditional system administrators and how they maintain machines, mostly with command line tools.

Cft uses puppet as its backbone for expressing the configuration of a system, and for understanding in greater detail what changes the admin has made to the system. Sites that already use puppet to manage their configuration can easily integrate cfts output into the overall site configuration; for sites that use some other means of configuration management, cfts output provides a complete record of changes made and serves as a good starting point of integrating the changes back into the sites configuration.

Example:

In lieu of colorful screenshots, a simple example will explain in more detail how cft works: cft organizes changes in sessions to let the user better indicate what aspect of the system they are fixing (the webserver, the mailserver etc.) A simple session to fix the configuration of postfix and to start and enable the service might entail root running the following commands:

tux:1# cft begin postfix
tux:2# yum -y install postfix
tux:3# vi /etc/postfix/main.cf
tux:4# chkconfig postfix on
tux:5# service postfix start
tux:6# cft finish postfix

Note that the user only had to issue two additonal commands to begin and finish the session, everything else in the session is exactly the same as if the changes had been made without cft. The command cft begin postfix tells cft to start a session called postfix, and the last command cft finish postfix tells it to do the final bookkeeping necessary for analysing the results.

Once the commands above have been issued, running cft manifest postfix will print the changes in the form of a puppet manifest:

tux:6# cft manifest postfix
class postfix {
package { postfix.i386:
ensure => 2:2.3.3-2
}

service { postfix:
enable => true,
pattern => postfix,
ensure => running
}

file { /etc/aliases.db:
group => smmsp,
owner => root,
mode => 0640,
source => /tmp/cft/postfix/after/etc/aliases.db
}

file { /etc/postfix/main.cf:
group => root,
owner => root,
mode => 0644,
source => /tmp/cft/postfix/after/etc/postfix/main.cf
}
}

This manifest tells puppet that puppet should enable and start the postfix service, and that the two files should be copied from the location mentioned as the source and receive the given owner, group, and mode. cft takes care of copying all modified files into a safe location so that they can be copied off the machine into a central location. The mention of the file aliases.db is somewhat spurious: it gets automatically recreated by the init script for postfix, and cft treats it exactly as if the user had created the file.
To facilitate moving the changes onto a central serevr, cft can also convert a session into a tarball that contains both the puppet manifest and all the files that are mentioned in it, in this case aliases.db and main.cf. Fancier, more convenient methods of integrating changes back into a central puppet server are planned for the future.

Ri-li is a arcade game for all ages. You drive a toy wood engine in many levels and you must collect all the coaches for win. Versions for Linux (sources and RPM), Mac OsX, Windows.

Full-featured, 8 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish. Colorful animated wood engine, 40 levels in this first version and 3 beautiful music tracks and many sound effects.

Gatotray project is a colorful tray icon to watch over CPU status including usage, frequency and temperature.
Main features:
- Time scale is non-linear: right-most columns reflect last seconds while lefter columns accumulate older measures, providing an idea of cpu usage evolution for up to 30 minutes in a glimpse. It makes a beautiful smoothing effect too.
- Colors of the usage bars vary with frequency, from green to red.
- Tooltip shows current usage percentage, frequency and temperature numerically.
- Instant temperature is shown graphically, in the form of a nice thermometer :-). Thermometer blinks on high temperature (>=85 C).
- Pops-up a top window with detailed system usage (on click).