While there are a good number of gnome applets to choose from by default, there are piles of other applets you can find online to install. The following are a list of four of my favorites I use on my various Linux systems around my house.

In the previous article, I explained how to install Avant Window Navigator in Ubuntu Linux (Gutsy Gibbon). By default, it doesn't install any applets. But a dock without any applets is as boring as a desktop without a dock right? So here are a couple of AWN applets which I found really interesting. But first the installation ...

There have been lots of cool applets popping up, especially since the python bindings were committed a week or so ago.

How many applets are currently on your panel? Only the default ones that Ubuntu brought? Yes, well, I have to tell you something.

Here is a collection of gnome panel applets that I have found in the repositories, installed applets can be viewed and added to your gnome panel via right click on an empty panel space then click "Add to Panel"

Given the popularity of Gmail, it's not surprising that a score of desktop applets have emerged for notifying users of new messages.  I recently set out on a quest to find the best one.  Here are the results.

The Amarok Project developers have released the first point update to the 2.3.x branch of their popular open source music player for the KDE desktop, adding two new applets and an Automated Playlist Generator

"A while ago I've blogged about my switch from Vim to Emacs, promising a blog post series, quite a mouthful :-) nevertheless, it's time to continue the series. The first part was about why I think that nowadays Emacs is ready to be switching to. This second part is about flawed Vim design choices which substantially contributed to my choice..."

So awn now allows people to use python for creating applets. And with that announcement lots of new applets and such have been coming out for Awn. One such new applet is the Awn Python Clock