Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : perlpanel Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Gavin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://jodrell.net/projects/perlpanel/ * License : GPL-2 Description : A lean Gtk2 panel written in Perl
PerlPanel draws a small taskbar on your screen to display some useful widgets like a programs menu, some shortcut icons, a clock and so on. It's similar to the Windows Taskbar, the Gnome Panel, and KDE's Kicker. . However, those programs are designed to be tightly integrated into the environment they are part of. For example, Kicker's not much use without KDE. . This kind of flies in the face of the Unix tradition of having lots of small, simple programs that don't depend on each other. Such is the price of user-friendliness. So users of minimalist window managers miss out on the useful bits of panel programs because they won't, or can't, run a heavy desktop environment on their systems. . This is where PerlPanel comes in. It is a panel program much in the vein of the Gnome Panel and Kicker, but is completely independent of any particular environment. So you can use it with Blackbox, for example, or WindowMaker. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.21-rc2-ac2 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]