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Google open-sources Gadgets on Linux

Search engine giant Google has announced that they are now providing the source code of their Gadgets for Linux.

With this, the gadgets on Linux platform can be run directly on the desktop and developers get much more power to play with them.

Google said in a blog post on this new development:

For Gadgets for Linux, we don’t just want to simply release the final offering, but we also want to give everyone a chance to tinker with the code powering the gadgets. For this project, fostering a transparent and lively developer community is just as important as serving our users.

Checkout: Google Gadgets for Linux