The GNOME fish

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The GNOME fish applet

The GNOME fish applet

The GNOME fish applet displays a small fish in your panel and does nothing useful whatsoever beyond that. It is part of the gnome-core package. This description of it refers to the fish as displayed in gnome-core-1.1.2.

It is occasionally found in the panel anyway, but if you don't see it, you can start it by clicking button 3 on an empty part of the panel and following the sequence Applets->Amusements->Fish

The fish applet was written by George Lebl (). Please report bugs in it to the GNOME bug tracking system. You can do this by following the guidelines on that site or by using bug-buddy from the command-line. For the package, put gnome-core.

Usage

Unlike most fishes, this fish requires little care and no fishbowl cleaning. It swims happily about in its water. If you ask it, it will tell you interesting thoughts. Various options are available with the mouse:

  1. If you have the fortune package installed, pressing mouse button 1 brings up a a dialogue box with a fortune in it.

  2. Pressing mouse button 2 and holding it down allows you to drag your fish about.

  3. Pressing mouse button 3 brings up a menu which includes a preferences menu and an About box.

Preferences

The preferences dialogue box (called GNOME Fish Properties) is simple, with five options you can configure.

Your GNOME fish's name

You can change your fish's name here. The default name is Wanda.

The animation filename

You can select a different set of pictures here. By default, the list of pictures is in $PREFIX/pixmaps/fish/, which you can browse and choose from. You may also put a different pathname in pointing to your own pictures.

Frames in animation

As it says, the number of frames in the animation. The default is three, but the range is from 1 to 255.

Pause per frame(s)

The period in seconds before updating the picture. The default is a second, but the range is from 0.10 to 10 seconds.

Rotate on vertical panels

This checkbox is used for vertical panels, and when checked, the fish will appear swimming downwards on a vertical panel. If it is not checked, it will appear the same way as on a horizontal panel, which forces the vertical panel to widen to accomodate it.

Bugs and Limitations

No bugs known.