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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. I just don't see the point by monkaru · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The very first thing I do, whether an OS is Mac, *NIX or Windows is turn off all the eye candy that slows the box down. Yay, One more thing to disable.