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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2006-08-09
Immediate reactions such as "who needs this?" overlook the fact that apparently, someone thought it would be a good idea to make this stuff. That's how OSS works, people can't be stopped from developing things.
If it makes open *n*x/Gnome even more attractive, for whatever trivial reason, it's good. It's not as if now that someone is working on widgets, Linux kernel maintenance has stopped or something.
I admit, I hardly ever use the dashboard stuff on OS X. The translation widget always gives me the word that would have been next to the word I needed, if the widget were a real dictionary.
And although I noticed that the weather widget may tell me what our planet's immediate climatological conditions are, I haven't been in a bunker for quite some time, and a look through the window gives me a fairly accurate idea of the weather too.