Hacking GNOME Launch Box for Fun and Profit

So after the headaches I had after doing some more GnomeVFS ACL work (more about that next week) I wanted to do something cool. Inspired by the deskbar applet I remembered that there was GNOME Launch Box. I checked out the lasted version from Imendio's svn and I was very pleased to see that it has gotten really stable, but the pseudo transparency was gone. :( So I though that would be the perfect "cool" thing I could do. A bit of Cairo learning, tons of source reading and a few gtk/gdk I had never heared of later I have it ready! Tada! First try and the fancy Final version of GNOME Launch Box with real transparency powered by XComposite. Hope you like it - I do. I am still shaping up the code so it can handle non transparent cases nicely as well but I am confident that I will be ready by mid-next week. I am going to continue hacking on it ... maybe we can have it in Gnome 2.14? :) By the way .. coding with Cairo is real fun.