Martin Notes

Google finally launched their sidebar with gadgets for Linux. That’s good. What’s bad, you have to build it yourself. The build process is well described, but it took me a while before I discovered that they have a separate description for Ubuntu (among others).

• You can download Google Gadgets from: http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/
• The dependencies for Ubuntu are here: http://groups.google.com/group/google-gadgets-for-linux-user/web/building-instructions-addendum
• Build instructions: http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/wiki/HowToBuild

I’ve added Google Gadget to my widget layer in Compiz so that it doesn’t take any screenspace. Just go to the widget plugin in Compiz and add: name=ggl-gtk

[UPDATE]

There is already a Ubuntu repo: http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/06/introducing-official-google-gadgets-for.html

GUI, Linux, Ubuntu