Awn Stacks Update

My last post speaks about how Awn stacks will get the blingness of the Mac stacks. Just wanted to let you all know you can now use it after you update your awn-extras bzr!!!!

Its quite fun!

Snaek Peek at Stacks for Awn

Stacks on Awn will get some more bling soon, as being discussed in this forum post(see pages 3+ of the post).

Also a video is posted here.

Avatar Factory

Avatar factory is a nifty little cript that takes your album art from your music and makes what looks like real CD covers, or record covers.....yea what are records.......Anywho what it does is create what the maker of this script calls avatars or icons that look like CD covers, then when you click on CD cover it starts playing that Album in your music player. This creates some really cool looking icons:


Now as was pointed out on the Awn forum this is super cool when used with stacks, on Awn!! Unfortunately when I choose to take a screen shot stacks always closes....SO you will have to try this if you want.....actually just had an idea I can take a video of it then:



Now if you interested in using Avatar Factor go check out the Ubuntu Forum post here, it is very detailed and helpful.

Update on Stacks

A bit ago I wrote about stacks on Awn well now it's been slightly updated. It looks nicer and has some nice new features but it is still a little buggy. First off here is a screen shot I took of the stacks icon on my dock:


As you may be able to see, you con now better see multiple icons of things from in your stack. I have a pdf text document then a patch and then the Google image from the Google homepage. And you can pretty much see all of them. From my own tests it seems like it shows you the last 3 things put into your stack. But I also noticed if you removed something from your stack it did not update with the change on the image.

Also when you open up the stack it looks a little bit smoother and nicer looking. Here is the image from the forum post about the new version of stacks:


Unfortunately when I try and take my own screen shot of this, it automatically closes...No clue why it wasn't workign for me. Now this is a lot more updated for the interface of stacks. The top arrow if pressed will bring you back a directory, and as you can see you can navigate into other directories, it is pretty much like a little file browser. Definitely pretty handy. Once the small kinks get worked out this will definitely be an amazing applet for Awn.

Stacks for Awn!

If you pay any attention to Apple you know that a new feature coming out in Leopard is a feature called stacks. Its pretty spiffy, and if you want to see what mac's demo is like go here. Anywho Timon over at the awn forum started a post and was determined to make this possible on Awn. here is a screenshot Timon posted in the Forum of his version of stacks for Awn:


If you want to use it, you need to apply the patch. You can get the patch here. Also if you need help apply a patch to awn, check out this forum post here. OK so maybe I will get this for my self and write a review about it latter, I just am not in the mood to configure a patch at the moment....