Amusements

Computer programmers can be very entertaining people. Applets, or small applications, are created and added to software for no other reason than to amuse.

Most of these are on-screen toys, like GNOME's Wanda The Fish, which opens a dialog box displaying a quote that changes every time you click on the icon, and KDE's AMOR, which places a little smiley face (or another creature of your choice) on the top border of your desktop's active window that interacts with you.

Other applets you may find to be very useful; KDE's World Clock presents a map of the world and time zone information just by scrolling your mouse around the map, and GNOME's GNOME Weather displays a mini weather report on the panel.

To access applets in GNOME, go to Main Menu => Applets and look through the programs available in Amusements and Utility. Applets include Game of Life, Where Am I, Odometer, and GNOME Weather.

KDE has a main menu option called Toys where you will find AMOR, Potato Guy, Tea Cooker, and more.