There is a new application available for Sparkers: Yarock. From the project web site: Yarock is a modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment. Yarock is designed to provide an easy and pretty music browser based on cover art. Yarock is easy to build with a minimal … Read more
There is an update of Sparky APTus 0.4.0 available in the testing repository. This update provides integration of a few Sparky tools, such as: sparky-aptus-gamer, sparky-codecs, sparky-desktop, sparky-office, sparky-webbrowser-installer and vmplayer-installer into one tool of APTus 0.4.0. Other changes: – aptus scripts divided into two modules (tabs) now: Accessories and System – added buttons of … Read more
There is an update of Sparky XTerm 0.2.0 available in our repository. Sparky XTerm is a tool which choose a x-terminal-emulator for sparky tools. It was choosing a desktop related emulator before, but due to some problems I changed to xterm only, which works fine but… need something much spicy. I reconfigured sparky-xterm to use … Read more
There is a new version of ‘sparky-polkit’ 0.2.x availabe in Sparky repos. What is Sparky-Polkit? The ‘sparky-polkit’ tool chooses a PolicyKit authentication agent (lxpolkit or gnome policykit), and is targeted to all window managers supported by Sparky. As desktop environments use their own polkits; window managers don’t have and don’t use any as default. How … Read more
There is a new appliacation available for Sparkers: Webmin. From the project web site: Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets … Read more