Eyes on Karamba

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Posted by Hemos on Monday May 5, 2003 @03:01AM from the bad-puns-ahoy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "dot.kde.org posted an interview with Hans Karlsson, the author of the now pretty popular KDE clone of Samurize, Karamba, which is responsible for the recent craze at kdelook.org. An interesting interview well worth a read which shows that even today most open source programs still start as tiny hobby projects after all."

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Active Desktop by baywulf · 2003-05-05 03:40 · Score: 3, Insightful

I can't reach that link right now but from my recollection, isn't this program very much like the Microsoft "Active Desktop" feature from years back which pretty much bombed among the users?
Re:Karamba by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-05 03:55 · Score: 1, Insightful

How about going straight to the story you like? This is VERY flexible in its final form.
Re:Karamba by advocate_one · 2003-05-05 04:04 · Score: 2, Insightful

Sidebars such as Karamba need to be more useful than just show information. There needs to be a way for a user to interact with the information presented to them. Until that happens they will remain pretty much useless (and off my desktop).

so you're expecting other people to develop your content then??? the whole point of Karamba and Super karamba is that you are given the tools to do it your way. Use other peoples themes as a base, but you have the basis to customise it exactly as you want. Don't dis what has been done so far, it gives excellent examples for others to use. Just blame yourself if you can't find a use for it.

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Re:I first saw this news item from Karamba... by Ponty · 2003-05-05 04:52 · Score: 4, Insightful

To think that I was under the impression that the desktop was the thing I never see (save a 1mmx1mm blue corner at the bottom of my screen) under my hundreds of windows.

I really don't understand why people want to use their desktops for pretty pictures or, worse, interfaces. Don't they have windows open?
Portable apps come to Linux by alext · 2003-05-05 05:13 · Score: 2, Insightful

Ah, Linux, dontcha luv it?

How bizarre would it be if this means that developers finally find a reason to settle on a Linux VM (that's Python) as part of creating kewl desktop themes?

Who needs a strategic plan anyway? And would Dotnet be enjoying more success if it offered semi-transparent weather reports?
Re:SuperKaramba by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-05 05:25 · Score: 1, Insightful

For those of you who don't know the details:

You didn't include any details.

What does it do and why should I care?

More eyecandy? Or something more useful?
For those interested in the competition... by 2nd+Post! · 2003-05-05 05:35 · Score: 2, Insightful

And for those who want to foster more cross pollination (in either direction), I present...

Konfabulator!

I know, the K makes it look KDE... it isn't :)

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Re:SuperKaramba by nuintari · 2003-05-05 06:09 · Score: 2, Insightful

Why didn't you call the super version "Aye Karamba?"

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