GNOME Applets is part of the GNOME Flashback project and contains applets for use with GNOME Panel. This includes applets for various tasks such as viewing the battery status, viewing the cpu frequency or memory consumption, a weather applet and many more.

Please note that GNOME Panel also includes built-in applets such as the task list, the application menu or the notification area, that are maintained directly in the GNOME Panel source code.

Applets can be loaded by gnome-panel from a well-known system path and can be added to a panel from the "Add to Panel..." dialog that can be accessed from any panel's context menu by pressing <Alt>+<Right Click> on an empty area of the panel:

Installed applets appear in the panel's "Add to Panel" dialog:

Applets should be written with the libgnome-panel library available since gnome-panel 3.36 (for details see the libgnome-panel documentation).

Older applets are still written with the libpanel-applet library that is deprecated and will be removed from gnome-panel in the future (for details see the libpanel-applet documentation).

You may download GNOME Applets releases and updates from the release server.

See the section "Minimum library versions for GNOME Applets" in configure.ac.

To discuss gnome-panel, you may use the discussion forum.

See the INSTALL file. If you are not using a released version of GNOME Panel (for example, if you checked out the code from git), you first need to run './autogen.sh'.

Bug reports should be reported on the issue section on GNOME's Gitlab server.