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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. Re:Lets slow down KDE Even more! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't forget that a lot of the slowness and inefficiency is because of X, not because of KDE and Qt.

    Of course, if you want a truly bloated, slow and inefficient desktop environment, try GNOME.

  2. Re:A possible merge in store, perhaps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Apple already took a lot from UNIX. It pretty much *is* UNIX. Perhaps it will lend something to KDE.

    Most UNIX-people use Apple because it still is UNIX but with a better GUI.

    Please stop spreading this crap propaganda. OS X is barely a UNIX OS, and for most UNIX people, it serves as more of a frustration than a solution. For light users who need to write a 3-line wget script now and then, or people who run 'top' because they like to stare at all the pretty status information, yeah, it works. But if you want to, say, develop a Python module in C, you'll find yourself erasing OS X and installing Linux after about an hour and a half of cursing and spitting at the machine.

  3. Really? by Greyfox · · Score: 0, Troll
    In my experience with Java, you're lucky to get a "Hello world" command line app to run the same from system to system, much less anything more complicated than that. Oh, the language does well enough despite the multitude of JVMs and display options available, but each platform has irritating little quirks that must be accounted for in order for your program to run correctly. It really IS "Write once, test everywhere."

    I also seem to recall having about 5 different versions of the Java VM installed on my laptop at one point, one for each app the company was developing at the time. Admittedly that's just because the in-house programmers were lazy, but it all adds up to a not-very pleasant experience with Java.

    On the other hand, my favorite online poker site uses java for their application and it works great with just my web browser. Apart from the fact that the browser and java VM crash after about 5 hours of online play, easily avoided by restarting every other break or so.

    --

    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

  4. Re:A possible merge in store, perhaps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Some foolish people here actually still believe that Apple cares about the open source community. Apple is not going to release any of its code as open source. They will continue to use open source products however contributing back is not even within the realm of possibility. Especially, when it's concerning their GUI.