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gDesklets - Gnome2's Karamba

Posted by Hemos on from the fuel-for-the-fire dept.

Deusy writes "Footnotes is running an update article on gDesklets, Gnome's answer to KDE's Karamba. I've heard a lot of noise with regards to Karamba (and Super Karamba) and a lot of moans from Gnome users about the lack of a Gnome equivalent. Hopefully this should fill that void and more, as one of the developers comments that gDesklets is the product of "months of planning" and describes Karamba as an "ugly hack"."

8 of 287 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Nice, but lets talk details.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Why their version is going to be so much better

    Woah, woah, woah, they work for the GNOME project. They don't need to explain why their version is going to be better. It's better becauyse it's GNOME. And GNOME is always better than KDE. Didn't you get the royal decree?

  2. The Karamba team should do a Mac port by BabyDave · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and call it iKaramba.

    [Tumbleweed rolls past]

    I'll see myself out ...

  3. Cant compile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    $ tar xjf gdesklets.tar.gz
    $ cd gdesklets-0.1
    $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome2/
    Bach blah...
    $ make
    blah blah...
    $ make install
    blah blah
    Error : /doc/html/index.sgml
    No such file or directory

    Help! I cant rtfm because this IS the FM!

  4. Re:Before it gets /.ed by twener · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now you know why you need a "Show Desktop" shortcut and/or button in the panel. :-)

  5. Re:Why to duplicate everything? by nonmaskable · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why should Karamba be any different? The whole point of the GNOME project is to deliver a C language version of KDE functionality about a year later.

  6. Re:Before it gets /.ed by dnoyeb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Without a doubt. When the new young chicks walk buy at work, you like to have the nice rig with the smooth desktop displaying your full coolness.

    Something like this could get one of them to actually stop.

    "You like my desklets baby!?" "I can hook you up."

    Yea, I'm feeling it already.

  7. Re:Before it gets /.ed by Azghoul · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, I suppose it's possible. However, let's look at the evidence:

    1. Dude showing off his "cool" computer shit.
    2. Girls _generally_ don't care about machinery, and when they do, they don't _generally_ care about eye candy.
    3. This is a linux desktop bit, dude into linux isn't _generally_ going to have more than one chick to check it out.

    There, I think I insulted enough people for one message.....

  8. Re:Before it gets /.ed by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it really is a SuperKaramba clone, the attraction is watching your Dual 2GHz machine slow to a crawl while updating a god damn clock.

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