I've started using the battery applet and my new wlan applet in my Mer replacement desktop. Come over here to see the screenshots.

daperl, I would like to know how to make a dropdown menu appear from an applet icon, similar to the one that appears when you click the Home icon. I am thinking of making a list of applications in a text file, with two "fields" per line, something like:

label 1, command 1
label 2, command 2

Then I could use the CSV reading module to read in the values and build the menu from that...

I want an applet to replace the hideous menu that I'm using.