
pre1: This is prerelease is without any xscreensaver support!

 Sherman's aquarium - Applet v3.0.0pre1
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(Formly known as Aquarium applet)

This is a wm(Window maker) applet, Gnome applet(both verison 1 and 2) and
a XscreenSaver "hack"(pre1 is without this feature!) that gives you an 
aquarium with some randomly selected fishes that lives there. 
Well, to tell you the truth, you can get some other strange sea animails
in your aquarium too.
It can display the status of alot of different things.

The fishes are done by Jim Toomey, the author of the "Sherman's Lagoon"
comics.


Fish Images:
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The fish images are taken from a freeware windows screen saver by 
Jim Toomey.(www.slagoon.com) He draws a really great cartoon strip 
named "Sherman's lagoon". (You can ready a daily strip at his site,
and in many news papers.)
I have to point out that NO reverse engineering nor disassembling
was made in order to extract the fish images. I did just look at
the hex code and wrote a program that read the interesting parts,
and converted them to readable images.
So the fish images are copyrighted by Jim Toomey, and released
in his screensaver as freeware. 
I've manage to get in contact with Jim Toomey and he told me
he likes "Sherman's aquarium" and that it's ok that I use that
name for my program. But he didn't give me permission to use
his graphics, but neither did he tell me to remove his graphics,
which I'm very thankfull for. (Jim, THANKS ALOT!!)




History:
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I saw a very nice screensaver for Windows about four, five years ago.
It's named "Sherman's lagoon" after the comic, and released as freeware
by the author of that comic. From the very start I wanted to have it
for Linux too. Quite quick I made a program that extracted the
graphics and the sounds. Then I tried to make a screensaver, but I 
got stuck in gtk+/gdk problems that I couldn't solve.
Then one day, years later, I played with the code Timecop's 
wmfishmon code, and this is the result.


See NEWS for a more recent history.


See the AUTHOR file for credits.


If you enjoy this small program, please send me (Jonas Aaberg <cja@gmx.net>)
an email. For every email I get, the chances that I add new features 
and/or make other applets get larger. (Please include the word Aquarium
or Sherman's aquarium in the subject.)

Patches, constructive critizism, extra features, sudjestions(good ones :-), 
better graphics, pizzas,.. are very welcome! :-)

If you need help with anything, don't hessitate to contact me! 


Also, I will redesign the preference window quite soon and I hope that
some people are willing to do some translation for me.
(pre1: Done, but internationalization isn't done yet.) 
So if you speak some language that isn't Swedish or German, and are
willing to do some translation, please mail me!
(Even english is of interest, since my english is far from perfect.)

Sherman's aquarium home is: http://aquariumapplet.sourceforge.net
(Big thanks to the SF team for providing a home for Sherman's aquarium!)

Have fun,
    Jonas Aaberg <cja@gmx.net>


