Free avalon 1.3 software for linux

Gspot stands for Gnome applet for Searching the web in a Practical, Outlined and Tidy way.

The project is in version 0.1. For version 0.2 it should have a preferences dialog that uses gconf for settings such as language support for engines that "support" it and other engine-specific settings.

It is going to be a non-intrusive simple applet and is supposed to be an all search tool for the gnome desktop.

xdesktopwaves is a cellular automata which sets the background of an X11 desktop as if it were under water.

Window and mouse movements cause ripples on the desktop like ships on the sea. You can also simulate rain or a storm stirring up the water.

FreeType 1 is a portable and highly efficient TrueType rendering engine, that is now successfully used to bring TrueType support to a very large variety of platforms and environments, be they font servers, graphics libraries or embedded systems.
FreeType 1 is a clean-room implementation that is not derived from the original TrueType engine developed by Apple and Microsoft. It has been created with the sole help of the published TrueType specifications, which to our great surprise (and pain) turned out to be extremely poor and misleading in critical areas. Much hard work has been undertaken to solve ambiguities. The end result is a portable and fast renderer.
Note that FreeType 1 is a library. It is not a font server for your favorite platform, even though it was designed to be used in many of them. Note also that it is not a complete text-rendering library. Its purpose is simply to open and manage font files, as well as load, hint and render individual glyphs efficiently. You can also see it as a "TrueType driver" for a higher-level library, though rendering text with it is easy, as demonstrated by the test programs.
Its quality matches these of Windows and the Macintosh, while its memory foot-print and code size (between 48 and 55 kByte of Intel code) remain modest. A thing that cannot be said for most other commercial engines available.
Main features:
- Supports TrueType files (TTF) and collections (TTC). Doesnt support GX or OpenType fonts, but these can be opened and used as normal TTF files by the library. (With the exception of OTF OpenType fonts which really embed a Type 1 font file within a TrueType storage).
- Modular design: Memory and I/O operations can be very easily tailored to your own platform/system (the standard release comes with ANSI libc support).
- Font smoothing, a.k.a. gray-scaling. Just like Win95, the renderer only smoothes the parts of a glyph which need it (i.e., diagonals and curves).
- Support for all character mappings defined in the TrueType specification. The client application can select whichever pleases it.
- A full-featured and efficient TrueType bytecode interpreter. The engine is able to produce excellent output at small point sizes. This component has been extremely difficult to get right, due to the ambiguous and misleadings TrueType specifications. However, we now match Windows and Mac qualities.
- Written in portable ANSI C (and Pascal, for older FreeType 1 versions). Should compile well on all kinds of systems (tested on 16, 32 and 64 bits processors). With full source code available.
- Open Source License. FreeType can be included in all kinds of commercial systems and software.
- Provides test programs to "show-off" the library, runnable on the following platforms: Dos, Unix, OS/2, Win95, and Amiga. Any porters for other systems are welcome and should contact the developers team.
- Support for extensions. These are separately linkable units which can be used to enhance the engines functionalities without recompiling it. They can be written to access additional TrueType tables, or even GX and/or OpenType ones (the latter is already available).
- Kerning support: The TrueType kerning data is available through one of the standard extensions that comes in this release. However, it is up to the application to "interpret" the data, as many different `formats are supported.
- Support for vertical metrics. The engine is able to provide client applications with vertical glyph metrics if they are found in font files (usually in CJKV fonts). If not present, it synthetizes metrics from the horizontal values, ascender, and descender metrics. This means that it is possible to render vertical text correctly.
- Standard extensions are provided to access and load the glyph names in the Postscript table.

steelme is an open-source theme manager for Java Swing programs. It allows the end user to select from pre-installed themes, or color schemes, or to create his own by the use of the ThemeEditor.

steelme is designed to be lightweight and easy for the application developer to use.

ftv_gnome is a frontend for furious_tv.

furious_tv is a set of tools to take XMLTV TV listings and enable a UNIX system to automatically record programs off of a TV card. It is written in C and uses a SAX parser for maximum speed and efficiency.

DB_DataContainer is a PEAR compliant database persistence layer and data encapsulation class. A persistence layer can encapsulate the behaviour needed to make objects persistent like for exemple: to load, save and delete objects to and from persistent storage. Currently the only supported persistence mechanisms are relational databases. Database abstraction is provided by PEAR DB.
Data encapsulation is provided by overloaded accessor methods. This means that if you have a property named $foo and you do not write getFoo() and setFoo() methods in the extending class yourself, they will be automatically provided by DB_DataContainer.
As a result of the provided persistence mechanism and data encapsulation DB_DataContainer together with few lines of extra code can be used to implement the Active Record Pattern as described by Martin Fowler:
An object that wraps a row in a database table or view, encapsulates the database access, and adds domain logic on that data.
The class does not use any external configuration files. The extending class itself IS the configuration. All you need to take care about is to have matching propertyname - columname pairs in the class and the database table.
If your database schema changes, for example you add an column foo to the table, all you need to do is to add a property name foo to your class which extends DB_DataContainer. There is no need to rewrite any internal SQL queries.
The class does not provide direct support for JOIN:s or table linking. For extreme cases it is still possible to pass hardcoded SQL queries. This usage is discouraged since it breaks the basic idea of using DB_DataContainer.
Main features:
- Simple API
- Persistence mechanism encapsulation. You only need to call load(), save() or delete(). Note that there are no separate methods for INSERT and UPDATE. save() figures itself out which query to use.
- Overloaded accessor methods for class properties without such methods.
- PEAR DB supported databases as persistence mechanisms (tested with Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL and SQLite).
- Multi-object actions provided by a static getObjects() call.
- Possibility to use hardcoded SQL queries in multi-object actions.
- Regression tests.
- Supports PHP4 and PHP5 (starting from version 1.3.0)
Enhancements:
- This release fixes problems with protected and private data members when using PHP5.

PyKanjiCard is a flash card program to aid learning japanese written words, in hiragana, katakana and kanji.
You can select words composed only by characters you already known. PyKanjiCard project is written in Python, using Pygtk.
Enhancements:
- A new restricted mode that loads only entries containing either Hiragana or Katakana and at least one character from known_chars was added.
- It can be accessed using the -r or --restrict optoin.
- A search bar was added.

wmtheme is a utility which, generally speaking, allows you to perform certain operations on themes by name. For example, to rename do wmtheme -r oldname newname, or to activate do wmtheme name.
Furthermore, it takes great care to make installation painless, in spite of evolving formats, packaging carelessness, and incompatibility between old themes and current window managers. wmtheme -i theme-package.tar.gz will almost always result in a correct installation.
It will also take steps to clean up settings that dont belong in themes, and disable suspicious-looking shell commands (these sorts of things might occur in Window Maker or Blackbox themes). This behavior can be turned off, however.
Enhancements:
- name matching now prefers an initial substring
- change Blackbox version parser to handle 0.65.0s -version output
- use pod for manpage
- support gtk+ version 2, discontinue support for gtk+ version 1
- remove attempts to compile gtk+ engines
- updates for changes in IceWM theme handling
- remove afterstep support