single process gtk desktop environment that handles desktop, apps and applets

SDesk monitors directories to provide desktop elements on the fly.

$SDESKDIR/tray

provides tray applets from applet subdirectories

$SDESKDIR/icons

provides desktop icons from .desktop files or symlinks

$SDESKDIR/ui

provides gui for apps from gtkbuilder ui files

$SDESKDIR/sh

provides helper functions to UI/tray apps from sourced shell scripts

$SDESKDIR/desk

provides desktop backgrounds capable of displaying non-interactive widgets

$SDESKDIR/plugins

provides plugins to help UI/tray apps These can be extended to provide extra capabilities such as interaction via RPC, sockets, DBUS... or additional UI widgets such as those in webkitgtk, or an interface to C libraries or other languages