A cool compositing launcher and applet bar that serves as a drop-in replacement for desktop panels. Very similar to the Apple MAC OSX bar and is capable of auto-hiding, menu plugins, stacks, file manager menus, and a lot, lot more. New applets and plugins are being written for it everyday and Avant will be surpassing the MacBar in functionality sooner than later.
"The virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk". Stick-notes, clocks, rulers... the possibilities are endless. The goal of the Screenlets is to simplify the creation of fully themed mini-apps that each solve basic desktop-work-related needs and generally improve the usability and eye-candy of the modern Linux-desktop.
Gnome-Do allows you to quickly search for many items present in your GNOME desktop environment from applications, contacts, bookmarks, files, artists and albums, Pidgin buddies, etc and and perform commonly used actions on those items.
The File Browser Applet provides a unqiue way of accessing and browsing your computers file system from a built in panel menu. Exclusive to the Gnome Desktop Environment this utility is great for power users who have large directory trees.
gDesklets is an architecture for desklets, which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop providing both eye candy and usefulness. You can populate your desktop with status meters, icon bars, weather sensors, news tickers... whatever you can imagine... Virtually anything is possible.
Gimmie provides an innovative way to access your documents, applications, and online friends using the Gnome Desktop Environment. Utilizes four quick access panel menus to create a new way of interacting with your computer.
BlueZ is the official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack allowing you to link Bluetooth devices with your Linux PC, Printers, and other peripherals. This program is Free, Open Source, and GPL'd.
Google Desktop Search provides an easy way to search and access your files, folders, bookmarks, history, and the web in general. Displays your search results in your web browser window.