Free improve skin software for linux

EZ Improver works well to improve dull, dingy images.

Leaving the Merge Layers option un-checked allows you to tweak the layer opacities if desired.

Plone Skin Dump is a product which allows to create Plone product based on some ZMI located skin folder.
Plone Skin Dump (qPloneSkinDump) allows to create Plone product based on some ZMI located skin folder (eg "custom") from portal_skins. So you can easy create Plone product with skin based on folder with customized styles and page templates.
Usage
Install qPloneSkinDump as Zope product
Install qPloneSkinDump in your Plone instance with QuickInstaller (Plone Control Panel -> Add/remove Products)
Create folder ( ) in portal_skins and fill it according to your needs.
Go to the Plone Control Panel and edit corresponding data.
For using new Plone product you must reload Zope, and install it in quickinstaller.
Enhancements:
- Fixed bug of dumping to new Skin Product objects with none ascii characters

WhiteBlack Plone Skin provides a white-black skin for Plone.

WhiteBlack is one of Plone skins from Alternative Plone Skins project.

Install

You can install WhiteBlack Plone skin in the same way as other Plone products:

- Download zip. or .gz archive.
- Install as Zope product: extract Plone skin from archive to directory of products and restart Zope server.
- Install in your Plone instance with QuickInstaller (Plone Control Panel -> Add/remove Products)
- Now your Plone site should have the corresponding skin look.

Note: WhiteBlack Plone skin was created with Plone skin dump product.

Freedom Plone Skin provides a skin based on Plone Skin Dump product.

Freedom is one of Plone skins from Alternative Plone Skins project.

You can install Freedom Plone skin in the same way as other Plone products:

- Install as Zope product: extract Plone skin from archive to directory of products and restart Zope server.
- Install in your Plone instance with QuickInstaller (Plone Control Panel -> Add/remove Products)
- Now your Plone site should have the corresponding skin look.

Note: Freedom Plone skin was created with Plone skin dump product.

Shed Skin is an experimental Python-to-C++ compiler. Shed Skin accepts pure Python programs, and generates optimized C++ code. This means that, in combination with a C++ compiler, it allows for translation of Python programs into highly efficient machine language. For a set of 16 non-trivial test programs, measurements show a typical speedup of 2-40 over Psyco, about 12 on average, and 2-220 over CPython, about 45 on average (see Section 5 of my Masters Thesis on the right). Shed Skin also outputs annotated source code.
The high performance and elegant approach of Shed Skin (it is only 6000 lines!) come at a cost. First, it currently only accepts programs that are statically typed. This simply means that variables can only ever have a single type. So e.g. a = 1; a = 1 is not allowed. Of course, a single type can be abstract or generic (as in C++), so that e.g. a = A(); a = B(), where A and B have a common base class, is allowed.
Second, Python programs cannot currently freely use the Python standard library. However, some common imports are supported (see *_.py), and many others can be easily added. The problem is a practical one, since in theory it is possible to create bindings for most library modules. A simple work-around can be to only compile critical parts of a Python program, and communicate with it through e.g. files and standard in- and output. This way, the main program can use the full Python dynamics and standard library, and the whole program is written in pure Python.
Shed Skin is still alpha software, and there are some other minor, mostly temporary, limitations. Please read the Limitations section carefully, before trying to compile a program. The only thing I ask in return for making the software available under the GPL, is that you send me an email when you encounter a problem, that is not listed among these limitations. This is the fastest way to getting your program supported, since I typically do not fix problems I do not know about. Please also let me know if you would like me to implement certain library calls.
Enhancements:
- Support for __iadd__, __imul__, and such was added (but not for __ipow__ and __imod__).
- The set implementation was optimized.
- A string formatting problem was fixed (%% did not always work).
- Some bugs were fixed in generating extension modules.
- A particular inheritance problem was fixed.

Gmail Skins provides skins and other extra features for Gmail.
Main features:
- Change the colour/skin of your inbox.
- Integrate your google homepage alongside your inbox. This allows you to view weather reports, rss feeds, news headlines, flickr recently added, google calendar module etc from your inbox.
- Easily insert images from your Picasa web album in to your emails
- Insert smileys/emoticons and images in to your emails.
- Insert HTML tables and other complex HTML in to your emails.
- Make the navigation (Inbox, Starred, Sent Mail, etc) horizontal.
- Fix the navigation in place so that you dont have to scroll to the top of the page to see it.
- Zebra stripes on mailbox - pretty!
- Change the attachment paperclip (on inbox) to an icon indicating the type of attachment.
- Hide various page elements (invite panel, page footer, your email address from the top right of inbox).
To access the settings panel you must change the language on your gmail account to EN-US - This is because of how tightly gmailskins integrates in to the Gmail interface. You can change your language back again afterwards and the settings will still be applied, although "your mileage may vary".
Some features will be added to your account, please do not mistake these for beta features rolled out by google like this guy: http://www.digg.com/links/Gmail_New_Features.

KDELirc Improved (patch) adds some different new features to improve kdelirc usability. Above all i added On Screen Display, using Konversation and Amarok codebase. When some key is pressed on the remote, its shown through OSD on your desktop, and mode changing is advertised too.
I also added an option to allow mode changing with one key only, instead of binding one key for each mode. A new DCOP method now allows to suspend and resume key binding for the remote (dcop irkick IRKick setEnabled true/false).
Enhancements:
- Removed Konversation OSD, using Amarok one instead (improved, with images and translucency support).
- Now showing icon for mode change, for better visual recognition.
- Also showing a little icon for the keypress, so indicating what mode is in use.
- Added an option to select a different font for mode change and key press.
- Added dcop call to show osd text through dcop.

CDcover XMMS Plugin displays a graphic dependent on the currently played song.
Normal usage would be to display the CD covers for the different songs. The graphics are retrieved from your computer. Therefore searchpaths can be defined, where a corresponding cover is searched for.
Main features:
- Define as many different search paths as you need, including wildcards
- Buildin skin, full support for custom skins
- Many different graphic formats (supported formats depend on your gtk installation)
- Automatically resizes the images, and preserves aspect-ratio upon request