After much delay, the Caffeine developers are pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Caffeine, an applet that disables the sleep and power saving modes of your Linux system. Version 1.0 adds one major feature: Automatically activate for user specified programs Some applications like games, fullscreen or not, take mouse and keyboard input but don’t prevent the screen-saving and sleep modes. Instead of having to click on the icon before playing games, Caffeine 1.0 automatically activates for any process you want. Read more

Announcing the first release of The Widget Laboratory, a Gtk theme viewer/editor. While the TWL looks like The Widget Factory, they have different purposes. TWL checks the currently viewed theme for changes and updates accordingly, which makes it primarily useful as a theme editor rather than  a showcase for themes. Read more

UPDATE: Caffeine 1.0 is out, read the details.

The Caffeine developers (Brad Smith, Tommy Brunn, and me) are pleased to announce the 0.3 release of Caffeine, the program that sits in your notification area allowing you to quickly and temporarily prevent your computer from screen saving or “sleeping”. Several important features that are new to 0.3, Read more

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UPDATE: The Widget Laboratory 0.1 is out! Read more…

The Widget Labratory is a gtk theme viewer similar to The Widget Factory, with several useful features.

Look familiar?

It can load any Gtk Builder formatted .glade file instead of the classic twf one.

Not anymore.

TWL monitors gtk theme files and updates when there are changes. So you can use it to help design gtk themes.

Open the theme folder in the default file manager.

Download the source and run it:

bzr branch lp:twl
cd twl
./bin/twl