DIY gnome applets
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I think this is not relevant in GNOME 3, which no longer has applets. Instead, you write extensions. There are multiple simple examples at http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/04/gnome-3-shell-extensions.ht...
I took the submitted post to be intentionally funny.
Not specific to the GNOME environment, but some people might want to check out dzen if they are interested in piping CLI commands to their desktop.