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Archives April 2007

Geany

This is my most interesting and most actively developed project. Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME. So it is using only the GTK2 toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK2 runtime libraries to run Geany.

Basic features of Geany:

  • syntax highlighting
  • code folding
  • code completion
  • snippet completion of often used constructs like if, for and while
  • auto completion of ...

Gigolo

Gigolo is a frontend to easily manage connections to remote filesystems using GIO/GVfs. It allows you to quickly connect/mount a remote filesystem and manage bookmarks of such.

It is part of the Xfce Goodies project and also hosted on the Xfce servers though it doesn't have any hard Xfce dependencies and can be used on other desktop environments as well. The only hard dependency is GTK2 (2.12 or newer).

Screenshot of Gigolo

More information and the source code for download can be found at http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/.

Xfce4 Dict - The Xfce4 Dictionary

This program allows you to search different kinds of dictionary services for words or phrases and shows you the result. Currently you can query a "Dict" server(RFC 2229), any online dictionary service by opening a web browser or search for words using a spell check program like aspell, ispell or enchant.

xfce4-dict contains a stand-alone application called xfce4-dict and a panel plugin for the Xfce panel.

Screenshot of xfce4-dict

For more information, please see the project's website http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict.

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