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\usepackage{hyperref} \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color} %opening \title{Desktop Matters!: SuperKaramba} \author{Jimmy O'Regan} \begin{document} \maketitle \begin{abstract} This article, covering SuperKaramba, was written for issue 104, but I quickly found that there wasn't too much I could say about SuperKaramba without writing an example, and I didn't feel like doing that at the time. Perhaps at some stage in the future LG will include an expanded version of this article. \end{abstract} \section{Introduction} \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{/home/jimmy/lg/p/jimmy/sk-default.eps} \caption{SuperKaramba} \label{fig:sk-default} \end{figure} \href{http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/}{SuperKaramba} is one of a few things available for the Linux desktop which made my jaw drop. It's like the dock applets available for WindowMaker taken to the most ridiculous level possible. Where dock applets can only be placed in the dock, and have to be the correct size, SuperKaramba turns the entire desktop into a dock, and there is no limit on size. Since I started writing this article, Apple announced that the next version of MacOSX will include \href{http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/dashboard.html}{``Dashboard''}, which is like SuperKaramba, which just goes to show that Linux is no longer merely a follower in the desktop space. \section{Starting SuperKaramba} \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{/home/jimmy/lg/p/jimmy/sk-start.eps} \caption{Starting SuperKaramba} \label{fig:sk-start} \end{figure} SuperKaramba themes are Python scripts, which supply various actions, and ``theme'' files, which supply the default desktop position (though this can be changed, to suit your own tastes). For the most part, the comparison to WindowMaker dockapps holds for the themes available: there are various items to monitor your system, control media players as such XMMS and Noatun, display news headlines etc. There are also a number of ``whole desktop'' items, which provide the user with a different experience. To start SuperKaramba, just run \texttt{superkaramba} from an xterm or from KDE's run menu (Alt-F2). This brings up a menu, which you can see to the right. SuperKaramba comes with some useful themes with the standard package; the first image in this article shows some of them in use. To have a look at these, choose ``Open ...'' from the SuperKaramba window, and browse to the directory where SuperKaramba installed its themes - \texttt{/usr/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/} on my system - and open a theme. To work with a theme, right click on it. To open another theme, select ``Open new theme'', or press Ctrl-O while the mouse is over a theme. To move it, first use the right mouse menu to check if it's locked or not - the menu entry ``Toggle locked position'' will have a crosshairs beside a theme which can be moved, and a lock beside one which can't. As the menu entry suggests, clicking this entry changes this. \section{Getting new themes} SuperKaramba has an option to download new themes; this has never worked for me though. Getting new themes is easy - you can simply go to \href{http://kde-look.org/}{KDE-Look.org} and look in the \href{http://kde-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=38}{Karamba} section, or go to the newly opened \href{http://www.superkaramba.com/}{SuperKaramba.com}. \textbf{Monitors}: \href{http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7876}{doomCPU} is an amusing CPU monitor - it shows your system load using player health images from Doom. Among the ``completely new desktop look'' are \href{http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13398}{DynTaskBar} with \href{http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13500}{DynSysTray} (or you can get \href{http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7890}{something similar} in a single tarball). \end{document}

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