Konfabulator: Whatever You Want It To Be

Posted by pudge on Monday February 17, 2003 @07:15PM from the sounds-kinky dept.

Squidgee writes "Arlo Rose, one of the developers who worked on Kaleidoscope, and the ill fated Eazel desktop environment for Linux, has come out with another potentially Mac-shaking app: Konfabulator. Konfabulator lets you run any program written in XML/Applescript/Javascript (It's own little hybrid of all three) in its engine, seamlessly placing the app onto your desktop. Examples of such apps are: A CPU Monitor, a Multi-Clipboard tool, a weather monitor, a battery monitor, etc. It allows for easy developement, beautiful apps, and unlimited functionality."

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Exactly! by SensitiveMale · 2003-02-17 20:11 · Score: 5, Interesting

I can save most people the trouble of checking out the site.

1/2 the widgets are clocks.

1/3 of the widgets are newsreaders.

The rest are silly widgets that do nothing but take up space.

All of them are HUGE and take up tons of desktop space.

If you want to check their forums, I can save you that trouble also. 1/2 the posts are people having orgasms over the product and 1/3 of the people are complaining about the price.

Right now the widgets don't do anything that menu items or docklets do much better.