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For those of you who have been wondering why I haven’t pushed any revisions to Universal Applets lately, this video should be enough of an explanation. (Thanks to Qball for taking the screencast.)
No, that’s not a simple Applet/Screenlet. The bouncing ball is going to be integrated with Universal Applets in some extremely nifty ways.

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.
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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.

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 [...]

Update: Please see this forum thread for details.
What is “Desktop 2.0?”
“Desktop 2.0″ is to the operating system what Web 2.0 is to the Internet. The following are the key elements of Desktop 2.0 (unless you’re new to Linux, you may want to skip a large part of the following explanation and go directly to here):

Mini [...]

I’ve updated my repository for Ubuntu PowerPC. Its located here. It contains cutting edge versions of Compiz Fusion and Awn.
1) Adding the repository
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following line for Feisty:
deb http://repository.theesylum.com feisty eyecandy
For Gutsy:
# Compiz Fusion
deb http://repository.theesylum.com gutsy compiz-fusion
# Awn and other eyecandy goodness
deb http://repository.theesylum.com gutsy eyecandy
Update your list of packages with
sudo apt-get update
2) [...]

Leoparddocks.com has a great collection of dock backgrounds that can be used both for Leopard and Awn. Thanks to Triberious on the Awn forums for pointing them out.
I found some additional textures for Awn on this website. Some of the nicer ones are below.