Comments on: adeskbar, for fun and profit http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chris http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42605 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:46:14 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42605 I’m actually the author of ‘Pretty Scroogle’, if you use Greasemonkey you might want to check it out:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/70488

Duck Duck Go is a new search engine and looks promising too. The guy did an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit a while back;

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html

The amount of information Google has on me based on my searches and the content of my Gmail account is pretty scary. Even my University uses Gmail. Remember what happened when someone at AOL decided to publish a small sample of searches? Although they figured it would be enough to just replace the IP addresses with a uniquely generated id it still revealed some disturbing information…

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42589 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:00:50 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42589 Nope, you’re definitely not alone. :D I prefer it really, if only because it’s faster at displaying results when I’m using a text-only browser.

]]> By: Chris http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42586 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:45:28 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42586 Ah ha! I’m not the only one that uses Scroogle!

]]> By: Links 5/4/2010: GNOME 3 Mockups, KDE 4.4.2 in Mandriva 2010 | Techrights http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42571 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:49:30 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42571 [...] adeskbar, for fun and profit [...]

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42559 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:47:19 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42559 That’s my fault — sorry. Time for a new desktop look … :roll:

]]> By: azbot http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42558 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:12:06 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42558 the screenshots – lol, guess I’ll check it out then!!

]]> By: Mark http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42557 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:46:21 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42557 Adeskbar is for Linux.

What made you think it wasn’t? :-?

]]> By: cherax http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42556 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:44:11 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42556 The default taskbar in any single-panel GUI will rapidly fill up with more than a couple of programs open. Add multiple desktops to the mix, and things can get very overcrowded and inefficient. To simplify things, I use tint2, a wonderful little taskbar, to display a separate sub-bar for each of my virtual desktops; it lives at the top of my screen. That leaves the bottom panel as a launchbar and systray (I remove the “taskbar” applet from the lower panel altogether). Xfce launchers can start multiple programs, so I set them to launch the programs I use the most – one for graphics programs, one for editors, etc.; the “start” menu holds everything else. Both panels are auto-hide, so they don’t take up any room unless I’m actually using one of them. Tint2 also works well with LXDE, and the download is only 201k; it’s neat, extremely customizable, and very fast, and I can really make the most of multiple desktops.

My second choice: The Xfce “iconbox” applet, which shows the icons of open programs, and can be used as a taskswitcher. Iconbox works nicely on a vertical screen edge (as you did with adeskbar), and can be set to autohide as well. I prefer Tint2 because it displays open programs by desktop.

]]> By: Jose Catre-Vandis http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42555 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:34:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42555 Took me alittle while to find a download link for this. Here is the link for what appears to be the latest tar

http://www.ad-comp.be/public/projets/ADeskBar/adeskbar-0.1.7.4.tar.bz2

or deb

http://www.ad-comp.be/public/projets/ADeskBar/deb/adeskbar.0.1.7.3-all.deb

]]> By: azbot http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42553 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:18:46 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/adeskbar-for-fun-and-profit/#comment-42553 Not got any thoughts on adeskbar as I use linux, just wanted to say welcome back I’ve missed your posts over the last days. Oh and “thanks” for getting me addicted to Stone Soup :-/

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