The Missing Piece

I've always felt that, no matter how good the GNOME desktop became, other systems were more productive and suited for regular users, always one step ahead. What was missing? The answer was ever elusive, until now!

Tonight, I've finally realized what is the missing piece, the "killer tool" that will help GNOME realize its full potential on the Desktop and Beyond, and in the process help me achieve eternal glory.

I proudly present:

The Desktop Cleanup Wizard [TM]

Currently this wonderful tool just sits in the Notification Area and displays the above message. Various studies have shown that users have never, ever, needed the rest of the functionality (such as actually "cleaning" the desktop), so I have not bothered to code everything in. If you do need it, please drop me a comment and I'll see what I can do.

On a more productive side: I've used Python and libnotify for this, and since there's currently no Python bindings for libnotify (until some changes are made), I hacked a small wrapper for myself. This is probably buggy and doesn't contain all the functionality present in the library (most notably, I've completely ignored callbacks), but nevertheless, here it is if someone wants it. The sample script that uses it can be found here.