Free pretty software for linux

Pebrot is a text MSN messenger client implemented with Python. It has also a pretty and colorful Curses-based interface. It is developed to work under Linux and should work fine on any other *nixes.

PackPrint provides a pretty-printer for ethernet packets.
PackPrint is a program to parse and print out ethernet frames in a pretty way. For protocols that it knows about (ARP, UDP, TCP, ICMP, and raw IP), it will decode the data and print it out in an easy-to-read format.
Main features:
- PackPrint will display the contents of ethernet frames. For protocols that it knows about, it will decode the data and print it out in an easy to read format
- The protocols that PackPrint currently understands include
- ARP
- UDP
- TCP
- ICMP
- IP
Usage:
PackPrint is incredibly easy to use - simply to packprint , where is the name of a file generated using the -w option for tcpdump (or some other program using libpcap).
If is -, then packprint reads from standard input, so you could do:
$ tcpdump -s 65535 -w - | packprint -
to produce an nice output for tcpdump
NOTE: always use the -s 65535 options on tcpdump to make sure you get the entire packet contents so that packprint can decode it

GPS::Lowrance::Trail is a Perl module to convert between GDM16 Trails and other formats.

Installation:
Installation is pretty standard:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

There is no test suite to speak of. One will be added in a later version.

SYNOPSIS
use GPS::Lowrance::Trail;

my $trail = new GPS::Lowrance::Trail;

my $fh1 = new FileHandle read_gdm16( $fh1 ); # read GDM16 Trail Exports

$trail->write_latlon( $fh2 ); # write as Longitude/Latitude file

This module allows one to convert between Lowrance GPS trail files (handled by their GDM16 application), Latitude/Longitude (or "Lat/Lon") files, UTM, and GPX files which may be used by mapping applications.

splash-selector project is an usefull splashscreen selector for Gnome Desktop.

This application allow you to store a list of splash images and to apply one of them, with only 2 click of the mouse.

Splash-selector is fully functional but pretty new and ready to be bugfixed and improved.

Hearts is a little card game for four persons.
A computer version of the game comes with Microsoft Windows and is a pretty popular little thing. When I switched to using Linux, I really wanted to play it, but I didnt find anything at all, so I decided to write it myself and here it is.
Enhancements:
Fixed all known bugs:
- The card passing was always to the right.
- Portability issue regarding setting the random seed (std::random_shuffle + std::srand issue).
- A lot of processes were left running.
- Only one match (ie, a series of games until a player gets 100 points) was possible.
- Status bar tells the user what he he should do at every step (play, give cards right, etc.)

The mp distribution now consists of two programs, mp and mptool.

The mp program will pretty print various files for you. It can be used in conjunction with a mail reading utility for producing a pretty print of your mail items. It can be used with a news reading tool to pretty print news articles.

Digests can also be printed, and this version can pretty print ordinary ASCII files as well. Support for personal organiser printing was added into the last released version. There are numerous configuration options to allow you to adjust the way mp generates its output.

The mptool program is a graphical frontend to mp. It makes it easy to configure the printout of your documents without having to remember lots of complicated command line arguments. It also supports drag and drop of text from other Gtk+ applications.

wmfire is a fiery dock app.
This is an update of the original wmfire dock applet. Like the wmufo program it uses the GDK library to improve its speed - using less than half the cpu of the original program.
It can monitor the average cpu load, or individual cpu load on SMP computers. Additionally it can monitor the memory, network load, a file or just be set to show a pretty flame. On entering the dock a burning spot replaces the cursor, and after two seconds symbols to represent the current monitor are "burnt" onscreen. The flame colour can also be changed.
Enhancements:
- Add sticky option and fix regression causing second window