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XPENGUINS-APPLET - gnome2 panel applet implementation of xpenguins
Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Robin Hogan <R.J.Hogan@reading.ac.uk>
Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Sebastian Henschel <xpenguins@kodeaffe.de>
Version: 2.1.1 (8 August 2004)
INTRODUCTION
This program is a GNOME panel applet that animates a friendly family
of penguins in your root window. They drop in from the top of the
screen, walk along the tops of your windows, up the side of your
windows, levitate, skateboard, and do other similarly exciting
things. XPenguins is now themeable so if you're bored of penguins, try
something else. The basic themes are provided by the xpenguins package
(this is the xpenguins_applet package), so you'll have to install that
before xpenguins_applet will work. Also get hold of the
xpenguins_themes package for themes like "The Simpsons" and "Sonic the
Hedgehog".
LICENSE
This program is released under the GNU public license - see COPYING
TODO
Add more language support. Currently I've cobbled together Spanish,
French and German translations, but I'm no linguist so please send me
po files for these and other languages.
PROBLEMS WITH OLD FLUFF
There are some things to take care about when using GNOME 2, perhaps this is
just a debian-specific problem, perhaps not:
If the applet crashes when starting the penguins, try to start the standalone
"xpenguins". if this crashes as well, try to start nautilus2 from the
command-line. if it says "libpango .... relocation error ... FT_ ..." check
for libfreetype in /usr/X11R6/lib and /usr/lib. if there are two versions of
them, delete the older one and reload the cache of the dynamic linker
(ldconfig); afterwards restart GNOME 2. it should work now.
KNOWN BUGS
- When installing to another location than /usr (e.g. /usr/local), the help
function _within_ the applet will not work. You can still access it via the
GNOME help browser (Applets->Amusement->XPenguins Applet).
I could not figure out yet how to tell the gnome-functions to look in other
directories than the standard (/usr) one (note: this does not seem to be a
problem with Scrollkeeper, the API functions seem to implement their own
management). Currently, I consider this to be a bug of GNOME.
AUTHORS
Robin Hogan <R.J.Hogan@reading.ac.uk> (original author)
Sebastian Henschel <xpenguins@kodeaffe.de> (port to GNOME 2)
The xpenguins homepage is located at:
http://xpenguins.seul.org/
SEE ALSO
Michael Vines <isamu@neomueller.org> has rewritten the program for
Microsoft Windows and called it `WinPenguins' - visit:
http://neomueller.org/~isamu/winpenguins/
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