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Do they mean something like Dockapps ,GDesklets, or Superkaramba? Or perhaps gKrellm?Yeah, that is new. :)

Maybe someone ported wmquake for Windows and HL... or maybe it gave them... er, ideas.

This is actually a question I've been wondering about for a couple of months: what future is there in dockapps/little apps? I just finished browsing Konfabulator's gallery of apps, and most of my suspicions were confirmed. Most of the apps are only of marginal utility, and already there's a lot of duplication. In other words, it's already beginning to look like the Dockapp Warehouse. All that Konfabulator has done is "lowered" the bar for making hundreds of little apps--it's easier to make pretty eye candy that does the same as all the other eye candy.

Ok, I'm trying to come to a point here. Several posts have mentioned a couple of "one-off" apps, apps that were whipped out to meet a specific need, but aren't likely to be useful to anyone other than the creator. Well, that's cool, but I'm more interested in the general future of little apps. Have all the useful things already been done? Are there any functional gaps that could be filled with little apps? We're already up to our necks with clocks, CPU monitors, memory monitors, weather monitors, and news tickers--what's a new area that dockapps/little apps can branch into?
:Peter

I miss the old good days of sims... when it was innovative. my favorite one was the underrated Sim-Life. It was so fun to mutate your animals and see the ecosystem change. It is still incredible how they could model some of the complexity of an ecosystem!

And for us *nix users there are always the dockapps. Having a window manager that supports dockapps is not a requirement. The dockapps just won't dock, that's all.

another nice on is alt+[up/down arrow] ... this will allow you to rotate through windows in your current workspace and bring them to the foreground. it will also bring up the dock in the order too. i'd say you can probably get by pretty well without the use of a mouse in windowmaker. for a while there my mouse was broken and i went about a week functioning quite well without it, and now because of that i rarely have to use it. if you haven't tried it yet... give it a shot: http://www.windowmaker.org. another place i'd suggest for some nice addons is the doc app warehouse at http://www.bensinclair.com/dockapp

I saw a caller ID dock app at bensinclair.com/dockapp somwhere.