Free desktop widget software for linux

This project comprises a library for developing thin client application frontends using a browser. It helps developers creating (neat) application interfaces (GUI) for inter/intra- and extranet applications.
Main features:
- 100% Browser based & no plugins required
- Supports all Operating Systems providing a DOM2 / Javascript Support Browser
- Simple, well documented Object Interface
- Customizable desktop & window skins
Following Browsers are currently supported:
- Mozilla 1.2+
- Firefox
- K-Meleon 0.7+
- Netscape 7.0+
- Avant 7.0+
- Microsoft IE6.0+
- Galeon 1.2+
- OSX: Camino 0.7+
A note to Konqueror / Safari users: We do respect the work of the Open Source community, especially the K-Teams. However we did not have the time to dig too much into why Konqueror does not work as the others. But because Mozilla 1.x does work and comes with most Linux boxes, we focused on development of the supported browsers, rather than finding the key issues of this problem.
A note to Opera fans: Unfortunately the css and javascript support of all current versions does not allow many operations we do need (like dynamic clipping etc.) We did hope that the upcoming Opera 7.x version can be included as well. But so it is not the case.
Despite the success of NS 4.x it is clearly in excess of age. Therefore we are sorry to inform that NS 4.x or any prior versions of above mentioned browser cannot be used. In addition, the javascript engine of NS7.x seems to be very slow when moving or resizing desktop windows.

Desktop Gmail is a superkaramba theme which uses wget to read the rss feed for your Gmail inbox and displays it on a GUI. It displays upto twenty latest messages(five at a time) as well as the no. of total unread messages.

It shows the name of the author of the mail as well as the subject of the mail. On hovering over the name, a tooltip containing the authors email id is displayed and when hovered over the subject, the summary of the body is shown.

This theme displays upto 20 latest messages from your Gmail inbox(5 at a time), the authors of the message and the no. of unread messages.

On hovering over the name, the email id is displayed and on hovering over subject, a summary of the body is displayed.

Open gmail.py and enter your username and password.(see readme for details).

Gnome Desktop Change is a daemon that changes randomly your GNOME desktop background.

Gnome Desktop Change is a daemon that changes randomly your GNOME desktop background. Its totally written in C++, it uses FAM (File Alteration Monitor) to detect changes into directory that contains picture files, and its multithread.

NetMAX Desktop is a live-CD distribution of Linux upon which NetMAX Server products are based. It includes best of breed applications: Secure Linux (kernel 2.6.11.5), OpenOffice.org, Blender, GAIM, Gnome 2.8, Dia, gtkam, Azureus bittorrent client, Firefox 1.0, Thunderbird 1.0, Totem multimedia player, XINE multimedia player, Wine compatibility layer, hotplug hardware detection and OpenVPN SSL VPN.
This distribution seeks to fill the role of a fully-functional enterprise class desktop system without licensing fees. In contrast to many of the other live-CD distributions out there, it has been designed to be intuitive enough for non-computer savvy folks to use -- including integrated Windows application support.
Power users will find that this distribution puts security first, adheres to published standards, and thus behaves in the way they expect it to. Unlike previous attempts to simplify Linux for the desktop, the power and customizability that has gained the hearts of the open-source community has not been removed.
Main features:
Cutting Edge Features:
- Complete desktop functionality (network files, presentations, spreadsheet, word processors, browser, art generation, digital camera support, etc.)
- Automatic detection of disks and mountable partitions, as well as automatic mounting of USB storage devices and network (NFS) shares
- Built-in NetMAX network file systems, permissions, authentication and provisioning
- Windows application compatibility
- NetMAX Desktop can be run without permanent installation
- NetMAX Desktop can create NIST-certified disk dumps for forensic analysis
- NetMAX Desktop includes a comprehensive suite of Linux-based multi-file system format disk discovery and recovery utilities
NetMAX Desktop is built for security:
- NetMAX Desktop is based on Secure Linux, and meets or exceeds most government security requirements
- NetMAX Desktop has integrated iptables firewall capabilities and SSL-based OpenVPN
Easy to Use and Install:
- Choose to run the NetMAX Desktop direct from CD, without modifying anything on your hard drive
- Or, choose to install the NetMAX Desktop to your hard drive as your default operating system

Debian Desktop Users Guide project is a guide which is targeted toward new Debian users.
It brings up-to-date and effective documentation to new Debian users.
This document is based on the Progeny users guide.
This guide is planned to be released in conjunction with Sarge.
Enhancements:
- sections 6.2.1 and 6.2.2 have been rewritten.

Logical Desktop is a desktop environment. A "desktop environment" is a program that allows you to do many different things with your computer, but in a consistent way. Desktop environments can be seen as a "dogma" of how things should be done, and how they should look and feel.

Examples of desktop environments are KDE, Gnome, the Windows interface, etc.

In Logical Desktop, like in all desktop environments, you work by composing actions made of one verb and one or more objects (e.g. "Print" is the verb, and the objects are the printer, the files to print, and the program used for printing).

Logical Desktop is how you specify those things: 1) in any order 2) with automatic hiding of the things that dont make sense.

1. In any order: Logical Desktop enables you to specify your action with many possible styles of interaction (file-oriented, task-oriented, program-oriented, device-oriented). Logical Desktop can do that because it treats verbs and objects with complete symmetry and uniformity: you can select both verbs and objects, and in any order.

2. With automatic hiding: Logical Desktop is more intelligent than traditional systems because it hides the unnecessary things while you are composing the action. More precisely, Logical Desktop hides those verbs/files/devices/programs that make no sense with the current selection.
Combining this with the previous point (that you can select anything in any order), we obtain a very powerful mechanism: if you select a verb first, the objects that dont make sense with it are hidden; if you select an object first, the verbs that dont make sense with it are hidden.

Widget libraries have now been developed and used for years. In all these libraries, widget instances require computer memory. But this memory is not really required, We have implemented a widget library to prove that it is possible to use zero bytes of memory per widget.
In such a library, there is no widget reference, so widget programming is easier even in a low level language such as C. Programs are more robust because they do not use pointers, make no memory management and do not translate data between application and widget.
To set the attributes of a widget, it is not possible to use the widgets pointer so a current state is used as in OpenGL. Most classic widgets were integrated into the library, and it is possible to integrate widgets of all kinds without any problem.
This library license is the GNU GPL. Beware: it is alpha software. It works but the API is not yet stable.
Main features:
Base widgets:
- text, text_editable, int, int_editable,
- anchor,
- button, tearoff, button_with_accelerator,
- image, image_from_file,
- scrollbar2, scrollbar_vertical, scrollbar_horizontal,
- toggle (bit or int or char) with or without label. Same for radio button. Really easy to use.
Container widgets:
- window, window_drag, window_popup_right, window_popup_bottom
- anchor_box,
- box_horizontal, box_vertical, box,
- decorator,
- notebook,
- scrolledview (can contains billions of children)
- viewport
- table, table_with_width,
- void, if, popup : base system to make transient widgets. The menu are constructed with "popup"
Composite widgets:
- alert (container),
- message (container),
- filechooser,
Widget attributes:
- Choice of the focus group.
- Width: padding, border, focus
- Expand: vertical, horizontal
- Alignment: vertical, horizontal
- Font: family, size, weight, style
- Geometry: x, y, width, height
- Window auto resize
- Sensibility (to overide the value computed automaticaly)
- Debug level
Other features:
- a drag and drop working only inside the application.
- fully working text cut and paste (UTF8 or not).
- simple animation possible.
- the library runs a web server allowing to debug.
- accelerators. If a modifier key is pressed, a list of short-cut with this key is displayed in a bubble tip.
Enhancements:
- Complete rewrite of the kernel API, in order to have :
- The library can now be updated without recompiling external code

XWT Widgets provides a set of high quality widgets and themes for XWT.

XWT Widgets is a set of GUI widgets written for the XWT Project. The goals of these widgets are to be high quality, highly themeable, extensible, and very easy to use tools for XWT application developers.

XWT is a remote GUI platform that runs anywhere while being fast and responsive, and aims to be the future of Web services.

Themes that closely match (and in some cases improve upon) native widget sets are to be bundled with the XWT Widgets, although currently only a Monopoly theme is available.