Free mood swings software for linux

Metamorphosis is a short course about Swing visual design and user interface implementation. Metamorphosis can help you understand and avoid common design errors of Swing based Java applications.

Therefore it provides a configurable GUI which demos both, the problems and their solutions.

Running:

You can either web start or download Metamorphosis. To launch the application from a command-line, use: java -jar metamorphosis.jar.

You can launch Fakeclipse from a command-line with a given style: franken, rookie, standard, advanced, elegant, standardX, advancedX, elegantX, where the last three use a multi-platform look instead of a Windows emulation.

java -cp metamorphosis.jar -Dstyle=elegantX com.jgoodies.metamorphosis.Fakeclipse

Fakeclipse:

Metamorphosis utilizes a tiny Swing based application called Fakeclipse, that emulates the appearance of an Eclipse IDE on Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000, and with some restrictions on XP. Although its a live application, it cant do anything useful and provides no actions. Only the File, Edit and Source menus contain items to demo an alignment problem.

Swing vs. SWT:

Fakeclipse is intended to shed some light into the "Swing vs. SWT" discussion. I dont take a position but want to contribute some visual input.

The Eclipse IDE provides an elegant overall appearance - at least on Windows platforms. And thats what most people are referring to when talking about the SWT. However, most of this look can quickly be emulated by Swing. It took me 2:50 hours to build the original Fakeclipse using the JGoodies Windows Look&Feel that I had built before for JDiskReport.

SwingWT is a 100% pure Java library which aims to be a free implementation of Swing and AWT. Unlike Swing, SwingWT drives native peer widgets for your platform from SWT. You can see a screenshot of the basic SwingWT demo here (Linux/GTK2) and here (MacOSX).
Main features:
- More responsive GUIs and faster startup times
- Less RAM usage for applications
- Many developers prefer the Swing API
- Existing Swing applications dont need to be recoded
- Mature Swing UI designers can be used
- Developers deploying to *nix/Win32 can compile natively with GCJ and the applications can be distributed without a VM. Linux distribution makers could package many existing Java/Swing applications that previously could not be distributed in workable state.
- SWT components can be directly accessed through the API, allowing mix and match (make Eclipse plugins with Swing!)
- All platform benefits such as font sub-pixel decimation for LCD monitors (unavailable in Swing)
- Use Swing on mobile devices!
- The best of both worlds! New Swing components for JClosableTabbedPane, JCoolBar, JTaskTrayItem..
- A FREE implementation of Swing you can redistribute and modify to suit your own requirements
- Insulation from changes to the SWT APIs
- Insulation from differences between SWT platforms
Enhancements:
- This release contains many fixes and compatibility improvements, including support for AudioClip and SWT 3.2.

Swing Glue is an ultra thin layer that allows to decouple view, controller and model into separate individual domains.
It as not just another framework as you might think now. It is an very generic layer that has a minimal impact to the application where swing glue is used.
Main features:
- Object repository that minimizes transport of references
- automatic population of Adhesive class members from the repository
- abstraction of view code and event code
- no wrapping component classes, you still use the normal Swing classes
Swing Glue is proof for the legend that a framewok does not necessarly has to be a Bloat of code that helps you to simplify your development.
It also works with a simple framework that is non evasive and has a very simple code base.

SWTSwing is a port of the SWT graphical toolkit to Swing. SWTSwing project brings portability, a bridge between Swing and SWT components, look and feel support and much more!
Go to www.eclipse.org to find more information about SWT.
Enhancements:
- This release implements more than 90% of the SWT API (against 70% in the previous version).
- It allows Eclipse 3.2 and several SWT-based applications to run quite decently.
- Moreover, SWTSwing now degrades properly to support older JREs, for example to allow running Eclipse on OS/2 with a Java 1.4.

Moss is a collection of Java classes which includes additional custom Swing components (Tri state check boxes, complete password entry dialogs.
Its also a JFrame/JDialog framework to assist in creating large GUIs), file and image modification classes (EXIF/IPTC reading and editing, image roatation, file copying), miscellaneous data structures (such as a HeapSet implemenation), and much more.
Please feel free to take a look around and see what you think. There is a javadoc page where you can browse the API methods.
Moss is released under the GPL. If you need to use this in a closed source, commercial application, please contact me - I have licensed some of my open source classes to be used in closed source works before; depending on your needs, I may be able to accommodate you.
Enhancements:
- Usability enhancements to JDecimalField

Domo is a music organizer which indexes digital audio sources, extracts all information and inserts into a database.
Domo is in the first place a music organizer. Domo indexes audio sources, extracts all possible information (mpeg headers, ID3 tags, MusicBrainz,...) and inserts everything into a relational database. In this database you can then query, export and compare with other sources (playlist, music cd, ...).
Main features:
- Song based comparison of 2 input sources (see compare page)
- Convertion between different playlist formats
- mp3, ogg meta data extraction & setting
- Retrieval of meta information for unknown songs through TRM audio fingerprints
- Retrieval of Audio CD meta information through the MusicBrainz service
- Maintaining of a wishlist
- Specify your own album format (eg: %genre/%artist - %title (%year))
- Specify your own custom track format (eg: %artist - %trackno - %title)
- Query tracks and albums on artist, title, filename, album title,...
- Easy interface to the internet or other applications through a relational database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC, SQLITE...)
- Create a backup copy of the music database
- Powerfull song filename/metatag cleanup
- Generate statistics like "top 10 artists", "number of duplicate songs", etc
- Group songs in the database into collections (per user)
- Platform independent
- Assign a mood to tracks (eg: happy, sad, in love, ...)
- Give tracks, albums, ... a score out of 10
- Easy browsing of your collection per Genre or per CD
Enhancements:
- replaced id3lib with taglib
- added and integrated settings which allow choosing metainfo preference (filename or metatag) and which allow the user to specify a custom track format
- writing of metatags is now supported
- bugfixes
- added right-click context menu to score tracks, set mood, delete CDs & rename
- albums
- increased possible query fields
- possible to query albums
- consistency dialog much, much improved (supports genre, album, etc...)
- finally fixed mysql database/account creation permission issues, newly created account
- should be fairly restricted.
- added a genre-centric browse list (in addition to the CD centric one)
- updated statistics to reflect mood popularity and best scoring artists

Amarok Skype mood poster is an Amarok script that will update skypes mood field with your current playing song.