Adesklets

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adesklets

Desktop with running adesklets
Latest release:	0.6.1 / 2006-03-31
OS:	unix-like/Linux
Use:	Eye Candy / Desktop enhancement
License:	GPL
Website:	http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/

The correct title of this article is adesklets. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

adesklets is a lightweight X11 program which provides the architecture for small applets (desktop widgets) to be placed on top of the user's desktop. The applets placed on the desktop are meant to be quick ways for the user to retrieve information and not get in the way of normal activity. More formally, it could be referred to as an interactive Imlib2 console for the X Window System. adesklets stands for another desklets container.

[edit] Desklets

The programs that are run inside adesklets are called desklets and are small Python applets loaded into the adesklets daemon. Some of the available desklets include:

Clocks
Calendars
Weather
RSS feed aggregators
Controls for other applications (such as XMMS and MPD Music Player Deamon)
Animated toolbars
Desktop notes
System monitors

[edit] See also

Comparison of widget engines
Amazing Brass
AveDesk Small and memory efficient widgets engine for windows
Dashboard (Mac OS X)
DesktopX (Windows)
dotWidget Free and opensource widgets engine done in VB6
gDesklets (GNOME)
Google Desktop
Kapsules Widget engine done in C#
Litestep Freeform GUI for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft gadgets
Samurize
SuperKaramba (KDE)
Windows Sidebar
Yahoo! Widget Engine Windows and Macintosh compatible widgets engine.(formally known as Konfabulator) List of Yahoo! Widget Engine widgets