Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Oct 2006 21:34 UTC
"A desktop full of handy widgets to tell you about what's going on in the world and what's going on around your computer. This is Jackfield. Jackfield is an application for the Gnome desktop that plays host to widgets; small applications to do the things you need. It can run widgets from Apple's Dashboard, will eventually be able to run those from Yahoo's Widget Engine, Microsoft's Gadget Sidebar, and Opera Widgets, and you can write your own."
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2005-08-12
I think its great..sure not everyone has a need for pretty stuff like widgets and compiz on their desktop. But not everyone uses their linux machines in init3 either. Different people have different desires, and I think programs like this will do nothing but further linux is the marketplace.
People seem to keep forgetting that the desktop is the final frontier for linux. No one will argue that linux can make a helluva server, but its the desktop where the wars are being waged, and linux is trailing a distant 3rd behind microsoft and apple. Until their is a true DEMAND for linux on the desktop, we will never have a DEMAND for commercial applications on the desktop, and until linux is commercially accepted on the desktop, it will always play 3rd fiddle in the consumer arena.
I say bring on the glitz and glam, as long as it can be disabled.