KDE 4 to Support Apple Dashboard Widgets

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."

Comments

Too bad the K name is taken

[tepples]

Konfabulator?

Re:Who knew that open source would be beaten

[CaptDeuce]

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.