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DERA

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Registered: 2006-12-21

Posts: 19

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[SOLVED] Gdesklets

Hello,
I've installed Gdesklets and to make it work I had to do this work around in /opt/gnome/lib/desklets at the lines 61 and 62 because of the pyorbirt version:

( ("ORBit",), lambda m : m.__version__ >= (2, 0, 1),
          _("ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version >= 2.0.1 are required.")

 
Now the Gdeslets shell finally opens. But there is not a single desklet to choose and run. I've used Gdesklets in Ubuntu once and many desklets were installed with the main package. I've searched a gdesklets-data package or something but is does not exist. In the Gdesklets site the download links are broken.
Have someone any idea to fix this?

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DerA (pt_PT)

What one fool can do, another can. - Ancient Simian Proverb

Zoranthus

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From: muc

Registered: 2006-11-22

Posts: 166

Re: [SOLVED] Gdesklets

http://gdesklets.zencomputer.ca/ still hosts some desklets.
If you know that the ubuntu or another gdesklets package includes some desklets, you could try to just use that (with this tool for example).

DERA

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Registered: 2006-12-21

Posts: 19

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Re: [SOLVED] Gdesklets

I've used the PERL script you suggested to create a tar.gz file from this Ubuntu package: http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/x11/gdesklets-data .
Then I've unpacked the new file and put the data into my /home/~/.desklets directory. Now I have dozens of desklets available. Some don't work but most do. Thanks again.

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DerA (pt_PT)

What one fool can do, another can. - Ancient Simian Proverb