Free gnome applets software for linux

Gnome-applets package is a collection of applets for your GNOME panel.

The GNOME 2.12 Desktop is the latest release of the ever popular, multi-platform free desktop environment - on time, to the day! It includes a number of interesting new features and hundreds of bug fixes.

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Free Software is about enabling software freedom for everyone, including users and developers with disabilities. GNOMEs Accessibility framework is the result of several years of effort, and makes GNOME the most accessible desktop for any Unix platform. Find out more at the GNOME Accessibility Project.

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GNOME Panel Applet can display system temperatures, fan speeds and voltage readings from hardware sensors under Linux.
Supported interfaces:
- ACPI thermal zones, via the Linux kernel ACPI modules
- Linux kernel i2c modules (for kernel 2.6).
- lm_sensors and i2c packages (for kernel 2.4)
- Linux kernel i8k module (for Dell Inspiron Laptops).
- Linux kernel PowerPC modules therm_adt746x and therm_windtunnel.
- hddtemp daemon for reading temperatures from S.M.A.R.T. equipped disks.
- Linux kernel Omnibook module.
Includes a simple, yet highly customizable display and intuitive user-interface.
Alarms can be set for each sensor to notify the user once a certain high or low value has been reached, and can be configured to execute a given command at given repeated intervals.
Only requires the standard GNOME libraries (libpanelapplet-2) to install since is written in C.
GNOME HIG v2.0 compliant
NOTE: Debian, Fedora and most other users need to do a ./configure --prefix=/usr to ensure the applet is installed in the correct place.

The XPenguins GNOME Applet allows you to fill your screen with penguins at the click of a button, as well as being able to change their number and speed on the fly.

You must install the basic XPenguins package first.

Timer Applet is a countdown timer applet for the GNOME panel.
Main features:
- Quickly set a timer and the applet will notify you when time is up
- Add multiple Timer Applets to the panel to have different timers running simultaneously
- Create presets for quick access to frequently-used times
- Each applet remembers your last-used timer, even after you log out
- User interface follows the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
Translations: Basque, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

gnome-ppp_logger is a project that logs the amount of time spent on the net when connected with gnome-ppp.

This program lets you establish a PPP connection to your ISP using gnome-ppp. It saves your online time in a log for later analysis. This will prevent you from getting into that state of shock when the phone bill comes.

GNOME Bluetooth are tools for controlling and communicating with Bluetooth devices.

GNOME Bluetooth includes a GNOME platform library and associated tools for interfacing with and managing Bluetooth devices. Includes OBEX file transfer utilities and a prototype device manager.

GNOME Bluetooth was originally developed by Edd Dumbill, and its primary maintainer is now Bastien Nocera.

The software is free, licensed under the GPL.

The software is still in beta development right now. This means that there are bugs. Be careful!

Music Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control Rhythmboxs playback from a panel.
Advantages that this applet has over using the icon Rhythmbox puts in the notification area include:
- One-click access to the main operations needed during playback, without needing to use a context menu.
- Display of the current playing time without requiring a mouse-over.
- Display of the current songs album in the song information.
Music Applet currently supports the following music players:
- Banshee
- Rhythmbox
Music Applet is the successor to Rhythmbox Applet.

Proxy Applet is a GNOME tray applet for changing your network proxy configuration with a single click, in a manner similar to Galeon 1.x.
Galeon used to have a single click Network Proxy selector in their menu, which I used frequently. In a discussion with Epiphany developers about this same functionality (using GConf) they argued that you could already move the Proxy Network capplet to your taskbar.
But that doesnt offer all the functionality Im looking for. What I think would be neat is:
- An applet that gives you a list of preset configurations upon a single click.
- Each configuration is called a location and could either mean:
No proxy
Manually configured proxy
Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC)
A remote URL, eg. http://pac.isp.net/path/file.pac
A local URI, eg. file:///home/user/pacs/location.pac
- When you select another location, the applet should replace your GConf settings accordingly. (GConf key: /system/http_proxy)
- A preferences dialog should allow to manage locations and even test a location (see if proxy works or check PAC syntax ?).
- In a later phase there might even be an automatic selection based on eg. the network-configuration (ip-address, network, gateway, ??). So the applet has to monitor the network configuration for changes.
- When using tsocks or dante lib, we could have a dialog to socksify the complete system. (Add it to /etc/ld.so.preload or run /etc/init.d/tsocks)