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Gimmie 0.2.0 Released - Now an Applet

beatniksoftware.com — Alex Graveley has released version 0.2.0 of his Gimmie project. Gimmie is an experimental panel replacement for the Gnome desktop. Unlike previous versions, which required you to completely replace you desktop panels, this version of Gimmie is a normal panel applet that you can easily run along with your existing desktop setup.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jan 19, 2007

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  • jlebrech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7KDE and GNOME are both going in totally different directions, and I like that.

    KDE is going for familiar, but GNOME is trying to be as intuitive as possible.

    Im definately installing Gimme sometime this week.
    Can anyone tell how it integrate with Beryl effects and if I can theme it with brushed metal and so on? and have the colors glossy rather than pastel.
  • stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I've written an Ubuntu howto to install it, it technically should work on any distro.
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341634
  • stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There's talk of this being included or being a part of "Gnome three point oh".
  • diggapleaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This patently kicks the crap out of the current gnome panel, and I'm a die-hard dyed-in-the-wool flag-waving gnome user. I really hope that when telepathy ( http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/ ) goes full blast on the gnome desktop and when beagle matures and is included in gnome, that this new concept will be considered to serve as the glue for it all. Nice work!
  • euphoria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Looks awesome! This seemed like the kind of thing that might look cool and then development would stop; I'm glad to see Alex is still developing it. It'd be great if this was how my desktop was setup by default in a couple years.
  • sgarrity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ss0007: the 0.2.1 release was a quick update made after the story was posted.
  • schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I thought they would actually adopt (Micro)vell's GNOME menu just as many KDE-based distros choose kickoff from SLE[S|D] (Flash animation: http://home.kde.org/~binner/kickoff/sneak_preview.html )
  • weijie90, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I hope that the next version of Ubuntu will include it. It will really help new users and make Gnome more usable.
  • unruled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this looks really nice... Ive been a gnome user... and never quite liked the menu much... this looks really appealing, if its not slow or unresponsive, I'd totally go for it.
  • DrDabbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let me be the first to say this ever...

    "Package or GFTO". Hah! I kill me!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1suppose to be 0.2.1 ??
  • itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Then they should opt for some format like the format 'gnome' or 'kde' for GUIs. there would be many choices, but they would get the job done.
  • bigern75, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ubuntu feisty fawn comes with a new Gnome panel instead of the admin and prefs pulldown. Very similar to this.
  • stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, please not autopackage. It has inherent problems that make it useless. For example, somehow programs written in python cannot be installed with ap, and the ap developers refuse to fix it. Gimmie is written in python.
  • vitriolix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, beryl works nice with it and yes, you can have brushed metal or highly saturated candy colored themes (just google for "gnome themes" and you'll find a bunch)
  • leszek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1there is an ebuild available on gentoo here:
    http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144181

    you can reports your bugs there.
  • jstn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is the classic Gnome vs. KDE comparison:

    http://www.illusionary.com/GNOMEvKDE.html

    I've used and enjoy both, but currently use Gnome 2.16.2.

    BTW this comment was supposed to go below jlebrech's below... I love how you can't cancel a comment if you make a mistake! I
  • cyberwiz01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If only more people would use Autopackage
  • itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2As a new linux user, i was always wondering why installing things outside the repositories is so difficult. Otherwise I am interested in this and will try to get it installed, but that would be a lot of research and reading people would not normally consider doing and I find that a bit unsettling when thinking of average users.
  • jstn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0On my Thinkpad T60p I also have problems..

    justin@desmo: ~/download/source/gimmie-0.2.1$ gimmie
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gimmie/gimmie_util.py", line 718, in do_reload
    for line in file(self._bookmarks_path):
    IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/justin/.gtk-bookmarks'


    ** (bug-buddy:27396): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Bonobo Component Browser

    ** (bug-buddy:27396): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Open Folder

    Looks like a really neat applet, buut...
  • djtansey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It is a problem within the Free Software world. A big issue is that there isn't one uniform platform. Meaning, when packing things for windows you only have to consider a couple of versions. With all the different distributions, you have no idea where libraries, etc, are going to be or whether they are installed at all (dependencies.) But, in this case, if Gimme comes with a debian/ubuntu package and you use debian or ubuntu, then you can probably just download and double click it -- the dependencies are almost certainly there.
  • Beeble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Here's my attempt on Gentoo Amd64:

    """Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/local/bin/gimmie", line 50, in ?
    import gimmie.gimmie
    File "/usr/local/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gimmie/gimmie.py", line 16, in ?
    from gimmie_people import PeopleTopic
    File "/usr/local/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gimmie/gimmie_people.py", line 8, in ?
    import dbus
    ImportError: No module named dbus
    """

    dev-python/dbus-python is installed,..
  • jstn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Looks awesome buuut...

    root@tuscany # emerge gimmie
    Calculating dependencies |
    emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "gimmie".

    Waa waaa waa... and it crashes after I run it when compiled from source:

    justin@tuscany ~ $ gimmie
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/local/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gimmie/gimmie_util.py", line 718, in do_reload
    for line in file(self._bookmarks_path):
    IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory

    I'm on Gentoo ~amd64.

    - j
  • kettlechips, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1deleted

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