Bug#233205: ITP: perlpanel -- A lean Gtk2 panel written in Perl
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : perlpanel
Version : 0.3.1
Upstream Author : Gavin Brown <gavin.brown@uk.com>
* 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.
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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.
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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.
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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: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
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