Monday, September 17, 2007

Ubuntu Gutsy - AWN rocks!

I have played around with screenlets. Very nice, but nothing functional enough to grab me. But, AWN is something that looks good and I find very useful. The dock is stable and has good properties management. And there are now new applets being added at a rapid rate. New applets added in the last few days include a volume applet, CPU-meter applet, and GMail checking applet. The awn-extras also include stacks (think file system browser) and a main menu, which gives you access to the Ubuntu applications menu. And now you can also theme AWN.

To get all of this you need to install avant-window-navigator and awn-extras. The instructions are clear and straightforward, but they do require some commandline activity. The forums are also very helpful.

Below are some screenshots, showing some of these features. In order: stacker, applications menu, CPU meter, and volume control applet.

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1 comments:

VeRTiTO said...

nice screenshots!