Computer programmers can be very entertaining people. Applets, or
small applications, are created and added to software for no other
reason than to amuse.
Most of these are on-screen toys, like GNOME's Wanda
The Fish, which opens a dialog box displaying a quote
that changes every time you click on the icon, and KDE's
AMOR, which places a little smiley face (or
another creature of your choice) on the top border of your desktop's
active window that interacts with you.
Other applets you may find to be very useful; KDE's
World Clock presents a map of the world and
time zone information just by scrolling your mouse around the map, and
GNOME's GNOME Weather displays a
mini weather report on the panel.
To access applets in GNOME, go to =>
and look through the programs available in
and . Applets
include Game of Life, Where Am
I, Odometer, and
GNOME Weather.
KDE has a main menu option called Toys where
you will find AMOR, Potato
Guy, Tea Cooker, and more.
