Mezzo is the desktop environment created by Jason Spisak. Added to Symphony OS, it follows Jason Spisak's Laws of Interface Design and poses a new way of presenting data to the user.

Mezzo disposes of standard concepts like "The desktop is a folder" and nested menu systems and instead presents all needed information directly to the user via the main desktop and four desk targets for tasks and files related to System, Programs, Files, and Trash. This tries to simplify the desktop.

The Kuartet Desktop is a completely customizable desktop shell built on top of KDE using Superkaramba and Python.

Requirements:
SuperKaramba 0.38
KDE 3.5.1
Python 2.4
PyQT

Installing:
Download and extract kuartet-0.4.0.1.tar.gz

1. open a terminal and change to the extracted directory
2. copy kuartetlib/ to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
3. make directory /usr/share/kuartet or /usr/local/share/kuartet
4. copy the following directories into the directory you just made
- settings/
- themes/
- images/
- configdialogs/
- plugins/

Using Kuartet:
Kuartet Applets reside in the apps/ directory. You can copy this directory anywhere in your home folder. There is an issue with permissions if you try to run the .theme file in a directory where the user does not have write permission.

Open any of the applets in the apps/ directory. If you encounter a problem, open a terminal, change to the apps/ directory, and run superkaramba from there. Post the error message here or email me.

Standard Applets:

The Desktopbar resides at the top of the screen and provides simple Desktop related functions (Log out/Lock Screen, a pager, and Show Desktop).

The Taskbar provides a taskbar and System Tray. Clicking the icons shows/hides the applets.

The Sidebar provides an interface to simple applets. So far, I've included a simple clock, analog clock, run/search input box, a system monitor, and a trash applet.

ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/version-2/f ... .18.tar.gz links to the window manager we discissed last night mezzo....turns out mezzo is onty a deskop ,theme and menu intergration thingy,the actuall destop wm is called FVWM and can be aqquired in rpm and deb packages as well as being in a source tarball.