Hedgewars sees special 0.9.15 Winter Release

Hedgewars, a popular open source Worms-like strategy game, has received a winter update which brings a variety of new features.

Worms fans will recognize the game which runs natively on a variety of platforms, as it heavily takes inspiration from the 2D turn-based strategy game we all know and love.

Version 0.9.15 – the Winter update

The developers have released version 0.9.15 which they’ve dubbed a “winter release” and it brings a variety of new features, weapons and bug fixes.

Winter has never looked this cool

• There’s a new theme to chill in: Christmas!
• Let it snow! Watch the ground on maps using the Christmas and Snow themes, because the falling snow may change it to your advantage or disadvantage.

New weapons

• Are your enemies busy digging for oh-so-tasty earthworms instead of facing combat? Time to send a Drill Strike after them!
• You want to push somebody from distance? Weapons are too expensive for you? You like to play in dirt or snow? A Mud Ball* should do the trick! (*wind effected; not recommended to be used as food replacement)

Optional Gameplay modes

• Capture the Flag! Bring your enemy’s flag to your home while protecting your own!
• No Jumping! The temporary loss of floor contact makes you feel insecure? Then play without jumping and see new strategies evolve!
• Random Weapon! You want to test your luck and skill? Then let the game give you and your enemies a random weapon each turn!

Draw your own maps

• YES, you read that right! Now you can create and save your own hand-drawn maps and play them on any theme you want and with who you want!

Fans of the game will be especially pleased with the last feature in the list, which gives you the ability to create any level your brain can come up with. Don’t be tooprovocative however as the developers ask “please do not use maps with motives not suitable for children on the official server, thanks!”

Download and install now

Head on over to hedgewars.org/download.html to grab the latest version.

You can build from source or use PlayDeb to get the latest packages in Ubuntu.

source Ubuntu Gamers

Gnome-agenda

Your calendars on the GNOME desktop. Supports Google Calendar, Novell Groupwise, Evolution

 Download

	gnome-agenda_0.3.1.2-1_all.deb
	gnome-gnome-agenda-0.3.1.2-1.tar.gz
	To install from the tarball, extract it and and run sudo python setup.py install If you don't have privileges to install software, you can just extract the tarball, and run ./gnome-agenda

Requirements

• python-gtk2
• python-pysqlite2
• python-gdata
• python-vobject
• python-configobj
• python-dbus
• python-gconf
• python-dateutil
• python-glade
• python-sexy

They can be installed on a recent version of Ubuntu, Debian, Mint with

sudo apt-get install python-dbus python-gconf python-gobject python-gtk2 

python-pysqlite2 python-configobj python-gdata python-vobject python-dateutil 

python-sexy python-glade2 python-gnome2-desktop

Note: You have to enable the "universe" repository to get all required dependencies
It is suggested to install the deskbar-applet to make use of the global keyboard shortcut.

Ubuntu Control Center

Ubuntu Control Center or UCC is an application inspired by Mandriva Control Center and aims to centralize and organize in a simple and intuitive form the main configuration tools for Ubuntu distribution. UCC uses all the native applications already bundled with Ubuntu, but it also utilize some third-party apps like "Hardinfo", "Boot-up Manager", "GuFW", "Font-Manager" and the new VGA-Switcher using vga-switchero module of kernel 2.6.35..

Download Font-manager: http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/
Jstest-gtk: http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu
Vga Switching Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S5-BVFk0G0

Install Ripstop GTK 2.x Theme/Style Ubuntu

Thanks, to tawan who spawned the idea.

And the Artists\' who created this theme.

kreator-(kreator_theme_005), darkmusic-(KillBang Wow!),
sen-(Mirav2 v0.5)

        

I have them all:)

not sure who is the original alas all very similar, except for background. Anyway, all nice work. I added some color,fixed a few things and added some
others.

This took on a life of its own
and evolved to Old Military greens.

There are a few bugs when setting window
pixmap bg. Some apps handle it different, the slider is different in Firefox, the game lights-off will not resize. Just some minor annoyances and
I kinda like the Firefox slider.

Includes:
Gtk2,Openbox3
the font used for openbox3 can be found
here:
http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=major+snafu

Changelog:

Jan 07 Changes;

Wallpaper found here at:
http://miss-mosh.deviantart.com/art/Das-Kitteh-192316809

Going through some of my older themes and updating them.

New panel.rc new panel buttons and modified panel bg

updated menu bg and added in menu icons

new tooltip bg

a couple of gtkrc changes

   (Ripstop.tar.bz2)

Source UbuntuArt

How to get back missing gnome-panel icons/applets

People always say network manager icon,sound icon,or other applets is losing from the gnome-panel and want how to get the icon back.Despite these icons’ missing may be caused by series reasons,the first solution come to my mind is add them back by “Add to Panel” in right-click on panel menu.

All these icons can be re-added onto the gnome-panel,so we just need to know what’s the applet name.See following picture:

 

The picture shows all applet names,you can check them by right-click on an icon and select “About”.

So if sound icon,mail notify icon,or graphics driver icon is missing, add indicator applet to panel.If switch user,shutdown,etc.., add indicator applet session.If network manager,add notification area.If date and time,add clock.