MATE QuickDrawer Applet Compile and Install instructions == DEPENDENCIES == You will need the gnome panel development packages for your platform. On Ubuntu, use the following command: sudo apt-get install libmate-menu-dev libgtk2.0-dev libmatepanelapplet-dev make sudo make install Beyond that, I don't know of any additional libraries that are required. That seemed to get the job done on this computer. While I've managed to get it built and working on SUSE, I don't have the pacjage lists. They weren't all that hard to find; they're in fact quite similar to Ubuntu's above. Maybe I'll update this later with the exact package names. == BUILDING == If you wish to just build (but not install) quickdrawer, a simple call to make will suffice. You can place the server file and other resources under the 'res' directory where needed on your platform. == INSTALLING == Assuming your installation is standard, the makefile (in accordance with the latest defacto standard) can install the applet for you automatcally. Once you install the dependencies, call `make` to build, then `sudo make install` to install. sudo apt-get install sudo make install If that command fails on your system, feel free to leave an artifact on the project's bug tracker and I will deal with it as I am able. == ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS == Special thanks to Tristan from #GTK+ on irc.gnome.net for his help in working through odd behaviors and missing documentation in GNOME, and specoal thanks as well to juhaz from ##GNOME on irc.freenode.net. Thanks also to stefano-k and xpander69 at #mate for help porting over from GNOME. Finally, thanks to anyone else that recommended me some particular method of doing something along the way. I remorselessly stole some code for highlighting (increasing the brightness of) pixel buffers as done in default GNOME Launchers from the gnome-quick-lounge applet. Thanks both to the original author of that code, and to the author of the gnome-quick-lounge applet for facilitating the easy acquisition of the code. And lastly, thank you to the author of the implementation of gtk_tree_model_iter_prev I use in preferences.c. I do not actually know where the code came from (I believe it was from Totem) as it was scavenged from a Google search for gtk_tree_model_iter_prev coupled with the word "void".