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KDE 4 to Support Apple Dashboard Widgets

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the apple-setting-accidental-standards dept.

Ryan writes to tell us Applexnet is reporting that Zack Rusin, a lead developer of KDE, has confirmed that KDE 4 will be able to run and display Dashboard widgets similar to Mac OS X 10.4. From the article: "Basically, this means that a layer (similar in some ways to layers in Adobe Photoshop) in the KDE desktop could function the same way that Dashboard does in Mac OS X. Widgets themselves are not inherently difficult to write nor properly interpret, since they are usually just HTML and Javascript (although Cocoa code can be included, the developer's skills permitting). Furthermore, since Konqueror and Safari share very nearly the same rendering engine, KHTML and WebKit, this too will simplify the process."

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  1. Too bad the K name is taken by tepples · · Score: 4, Funny

    Konfabulator?

    1. Re:Too bad the K name is taken by zarr · · Score: 3, Funny

      Kkonfabulator! :)

  2. Will enable the pent up demand for Apple Switchers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apple users looking to exploit the availibility of more games that Linux provides may now consider switching.

  3. Re:Lets slow down KDE Even more! by heinousjay · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're forgetting where you are. This is Slashdot, where anyone that isn't happy keyslapping arcane commands into a white on black console isn't really using a computer, and any piece of software that tries to do anything for the user is heretical.

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  4. Re:Who knew that open source would be beaten by CaptDeuce · · Score: 4, Funny
    Now, as a Java developer I see nothing wrong with this... [Java is] an easy language to pick up

    Really? Compared to what?

    I'm finding that learning to speak Italian is easier, even though it will take longer. And Italian is a lot more useful for ordering food at a restaurant in Italy. Java is pretty useless in that respect -- even at a Starbucks.

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  5. iGoing Krazy by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny
    iNames just make iMe want to iPoke my iOut with an iFork.

    K-Names make me want to K-rush my K-cranium in a trash K-ompactor.

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  6. Re:Exciting by rampant+mac · · Score: 2, Funny
    "[...] there are probably a lot of people in the Linux community that will write new Widgets that haven't been thought of (or thought necessary)"

    I can't wait to download the 324 widgets that will allow me to control XMMS, each just a little bit different from the last.

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