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Introduction
Rodney Dawes wrote an interesting post that I saw on Planet GNOME a few weeks back. Here’s one excerpt that I found noteworthy:
The Future is not your desktop. It is mobile devices. It is tablets. It is holographic displays and interfaces. It is flexible transparent screens. It is your television, your appliances, your home, your [...]

At the GNOME Summit, Owen suggested the following:
When trying to decide on a language for applets/widgets, just about everyone will suggest their own favorite language along with reasons why that language is appropriate. However, one thing that needs to be considered is choosing nobody’s favorite language- Javascript.
Owen, I see your point but have to disagree. [...]

There’s a lot going on in the Universal Applets community at the moment, so I’ve decided to start writing semi-weekly wrap-up posts summarizing everything that’s happened. Here goes news roundup #1:

(Thanks, Kwaanens)
Forking
I know the news is already out all over the forums, so I’ll try to keep this short: There’s been some tension [...]

NOTE: Some of this post is no longer relevant. Please use Universal Applet’s internal documentation.
At the moment, there’s very little documentation for developers describing the Universal Applets architecture. I’m hoping to roll out a stable release within the next week or two, and I should have the time to write up some docs after that.
In [...]

Ubuntu Brainstorm is quite nice. I submitted my first idea today:

I had some trouble booting into my computer earlier this week. It’s fixed now, but the Universal Applets release that I promised will be delayed by a few days.

For those of you that are trying to follow my Universal Applets development, things are a bit of a mess. There are two forum threads and several emails to several different lists.
To make things a bit easier to follow, I’m going to repost everything of importance on this blog.
This thread on the Awn forum should [...]

I’m reposting a shortened version of this email to the Gnome-love list. The bolded bit talks about the project’s current status.
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I’m trying to fix the problem by creating a universal applets framework for GNOME that’s mostly based on Screenlets. The goal is to create a common applet format that can be easily loaded into any [...]

I’ve created a new branch of Screenlets on Launchpad for Universal Applets. Right now the branch is just the same as trunk, but I’ll be pushing a revision soon.
Here’s a screenshot of how things are looking right now:

See this for an explanation of what Desktop 2.0 is.
Here’s a quick mockup of a Growl-like notifications server for GNOME.