BarPanel v0.3.0
Posted on May 15th, 2008
BarPanel is a powerful desktop panel that enables you to have all you want just one-click-far. It is extensible through plugins and fully is themeable. Barpanel is a continuation of the work done in the Foopanel project.
Barpanel v0.3.0 brings a number of enhancements that make the panel ever more usable as a drop-in replacement for your current desktop panel.
New features in this release include:
- Added a custom application launcher plugin (”launcher”)
- Fixed keyboard focus issues in quickterminal and searchbox
- Ability to run several different panels simultaneously (eg. top and bottom with different contents)
- Removed the static “arrow” menu at the left side
- Separation of barpanel-config to a separate app
- Removal of “elementtree” library from the source tree
- New configuration file format
- New default configuration with top/bottom panels
- Major reorganization and simplification of the codebase; reduced number of files and merged contents
Being written in Python, BarPanel works well on a variety of different Linux/Unix -type operating systems. This version is released as a deb-package for Ubuntu/Debian users, as well as a tar.gz package for other operating systems.
For downloads, proceed to the BarPanel project page.
Nice, but how-to configure this panel??
The graphical configuration tool is still incomplete and not yet working for the current release. However, the panel can be configured through editing the configuration file. You can start with the default file as basis;
cp /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/barpanel/config.xml.in ~/.barpanel/config.xml
(the exact location of config.xml.in may vary depending on where the tarball was installed)
then edit ~/.barpanel/config.xml - the format is hopefully self-explanatory enough for the time being.
A future version of BarPanel will hopefully see the return of the configuration GUI.