[TriLUG] Gimmie desktop-app vs. pannel-applet

[Mark Kempster]

ubuntu 8.04. The desktop flavor did crash on me once, but I seem to
recall there being a big disclaimer about it being the least stable
variant.

... goes off and googles for awn, gimmie, topaz ...

Good golly. I'm not usually one for desktop bling, but those
screenshots make me reconsider:
http://awn.wetpaint.com/page/Make+Topaz+Ideas+a+Reality?t=anon

Seems to be a few notes about integration between awn and gimmie...
looks like I've got my weekend's reasearch topic. I'm curious to know
how your awn+gimmie trial works out!

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Michael Ansel <michael.ansel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Mark Kempster wrote:
>> I ran across gimmie (http://www.beatniksoftware.com/gimmie/Main_Page)
>> tonight, and after hearing about it a couple times, finally gave it a
>> try. So far, I really like it, and have significantly changed my panel
>> as a result. My one question is a difference between the desktop
>> dock-like thing (when you run 'gimmie' from the command-line) and the
>> gimmie-applet that's embedded in the gnome toolbar.
>>
>> With the applet, you get the menu/shortcut stuff that you get by
>> pushing the 'Programs' buttons and the like from the desktop dock
>> application. However, the applet is missing the 'open windows'
>> business, the sort of thing you get with the 'workspace switcher'
>> applet.
>>
>> With the desktop version of gimmie, you get both the menu buttons and
>> the open-applications windows. Granted, the real-estate it takes up is
>> significantly greater. But darned handy, and an opportunity to slim
>> down the amount of displayed stuff on the desktop (I like a spartan
>> desktop, but to still have the stuff I use within "easy reach", or
>> about 2 mouse clicks. So far, gimmie has pretty good about meeting
>> that goal, and my desktop is cleaner than it was before.)
>>
>> Is there a way to get the open-applications thing to show up in the
>> applet? I dislike the size of the dock and how it swallows a hefty
>> swathe of real-estate when maximizing a window - a pricey trade-off on
>> my newish-to-me 1024x768 T40..
> I'm running 1280x800 (Dell Latitude D830) and I just use the Avant
> Window Navigator for all my task switching needs. As soon as I can get
> the AWN applet for Gimmie compiled, I'm going to check that one out
> too. It does take up a bit of space, but I haven't really noticed it
> versus the default panel (its probably 2-3x taller).
> On a side note, what distro are you using Gimmie on? I'm using the
> repo version on Fedora 9, and it is super crash happy. Have you found
> the same thing?
>
> Off to compile the trunk...
> Michael
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