XPENGUINS_APPLET - gnome panel applet implementation of xpenguins
Copyright (C) 1999, 2000  Robin Hogan <R.J.Hogan@reading.ac.uk>
Applet version: 0.9beta (29 Oct 2000); based on xpenguins 1.2 (22 May 2000)


INTRODUCTION

The xpenguins applet sits in your GNOME panel and when you click the
`play' button, will animates a number of penguins that fall from the
top of the screen, walk along the top of windows, up the side of
windows, up the side of the screen, and sometimes even levitate with
their genetically-modified go-go-gadget 'copter ability. You can
change the speed and number of the penguins from the `Properties'
window. 


This is beta software - when I'm satisfied with the stability and
design of the applet implementation, and have written some
documentation and the necessary files for it to appear in the menus,
I'll synchronise the version numbers with the terminal-based version,
and maybe submit it to be included in the GNOME applet distribution.


LICENSE

This program is released under the GNU public license - see COPYING


TODO

Write GUI front end for KDE.

Add some more penguin types.

I'd also be interested to see derivatives of this program that use
other toons completely - e.g. Buzz Lightyear, Sonic the Hedgehog, The
Simpsons etc. 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Inspiration was provided by Rick Jansen <rick@sara.nl> in the form of
the classic `xsnow'.

The penguin images were taken from `Pingus', a free lemmings clone
for Linux (http://pingus.seul.org/), and were designed by Joel Fauche
<joel.fauche@wanadoo.fr>. 

Xpenguins uses vroot.h for use with some `virtual' window managers.
vroot.h is copyright 1991 by Andreas Stolcke, copyright 1990 by
Solbourne Computer Inc. <stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>. 


AUTHOR

Robin Hogan <R.J.Hogan@reading.ac.uk>

The xpenguins homepage is  located at: 
	http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~swrhgnrj/xpenguins/


SEE ALSO

Michael Vines <isamu@neomueller.org> has rewritten the program for
Microsoft Windows and called it `WinPenguins' - visit: 
	http://neomueller.org/~isamu/winpenguins/ 

