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Hi everybody,

Just to keep you updated... Things that have appeared:

1. Project for individual Screenlets development: 
https://launchpad.net/indiv-screenlets

I added all the Screenlets as well as all of Universal Applets and some 
more Screenlets (quite randomly) from Gnome-look.org. There is 89 of 
them now. Not all of them function though, but most of them at least 
start and do something. I also created two packages that the project 
produces:

    screenlets-pack-basic
    screenlets-pack-all

If you want some actual Screenlets to be distributed with "screenlets" 
core, you have to distribute also at least the package 
"screenlets-pack-basic". There are no Screenlets in package 
"screenlets", but "screenlets-pack-basic" is "recommended" by it and 
"screenlets-pack-all" is "suggested". This is to make 
installation/updating/removing of Screenlets more dynamic.

All the individual Screenlets can be translated on Launchpad now. You 
can read about it in the updated documentation:

    
http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Documentation#Translate_to_your_language

There is also a section about submitting individual Screenlets to the 
project:

    
http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Documentation#Why_should_I_add_my_Screenlet_to_individual_Screenlets_project

2. A Screenlets PPA: https://launchpad.net/~screenlets-dev/+archive/ppa

It contains automatically generated Debian packages of all the 
Screenlets with their translations from the individual Screenlets 
project and development versions of packages "screenlets", 
"screenlets-pack-basic" and "screenlets-pack-all". Packages are 
generated and uploaded to PPA daily for "karmic", "lucid" and "maverick".

3. Documentation has some other news in these sections:

    http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Screenlets_0.1.3_cooking_...
    http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Download
    http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Get_more_screenlets

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As next step I'd consider fixing individual Screenlets and doing some 
work on the core, but I don't really have time to do it. I'd like to 
encourage users of individual Screenlets to fix the bugs, but this 
hardly works. Using Launchpad and Bazaar is too much for most of them.

I also think that we should announce updated version of Screenlets 
(0.1.3 ?), but I'd like to see some testing and bug reports before. For 
example, it would be good if somebody tested the present version on some 
not Debian/Ubuntu system and gave feedback.

I'm also planning to build into Screenlets some support for making any 
application appear as a widget, but I'm not sure if that works out. I'll 
let you know later.

Merging the changes from Universal Applets core is still an issue. If 
there would be some general documentation or hints on the changes in 
Universal Applets, somebody may do the work, but otherwise it's just too 
much uncommented code. If somebody could clear the code for merging or 
write some instructions what should be merged and how, this would be 
really welcome.

And, if somebody has an idea why should people prefer Screenlets to 
Google Desktop Gadgets, please let me know!

Sincerely "etc"
Guido Tabbernuk