Zack Rusin of KDE has said KDE4 will have full support for widgets from OS X's Dashboard. "I finally got most the implementation of the HTML Canvas element for KHTML finished. It's in the kdelibs-js branch in SVN. After George/Maks merge their other changes we'll merge it to HEAD. I'm planning to add full OSX Dashboard compatibility layer for Plasma (hence why I've spent most of the day yesterday on implementing the Canvas element)."
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Member since:2005-08-07
"We're taking a break at the moment."
Why? All the upcoming features you're mentioning seems worth coding for! 
"If you're interested in our plans, drop us a mail..."
Is there a news feed you can subscribe to? I'm always interested in following the progress of promising OSS projects and this seems like one. (Plasma is certainly another.)
Member since:2006-01-02
Why? All the upcoming features you're mentioning seems worth coding for!
Well, we also have to work on another project at the moment to earn some money. gDesklets is our fun/spare time project :-)
But, yes, we know that those features are what people would like to see.
Is there a news feed you can subscribe to? I'm always interested in following the progress of promising OSS projects and this seems like one. (Plasma is certainly another.)
www.gdesklets.org is currently being set up. The forum (even if it's still not as good and frequently used as the old one) might be the right place. Or just email martin(AT)pycage(DoT)de and chrisime(AT)gnome(DoT)org.
Cheers,
Christian
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2006-01-02
Hi, I am one of the (currently) two gDesklets authors. We're taking a break at the moment. gD 0.35.2 is quite stable and people are happily using it. Packages are available for any popular distributions out there. There's no need to compile gDesklets anymore (except for those distributions, which aren't that wide-spread).
Martin (pycage) and I have big plans for v0.40; there might be another 0.35.x release to solve a bug/feature which has been introduced in gtk+2.8: we're abusing a gtk+ widget to display a gauge, which won't work anymore.
gDesklets 0.40 will have a new vastly improved shell (it will totally rock!!), themeing support, new effects, full multimedia support using GStreamer. Also, the app will use less memory/cpu time, because it'll make use of cairo instead of gtk+ to draw the widgets. We're going to drop the bonobo/gnome dependency once and for all, which doesn't mean gDesklets won't use any GNOME technology anymore (e.g. if gnomevfs available, it'll use it, if not it's going to use python's urllib). That should make everybody happy, who wasn't happy about the huge dependecy list. Furthermore, we might improve certain elements/widgets like the svg widget.
We're not yet sure when gDesklets will be out, it depends on our spare time ;-)
If you're interested in our plans, drop us a mail...
P.S. The gDesklets and adesklets team will try to work on a common ADL (applet description language), so that you'll be able to use your adesklets and gdesklets. Initially, I also wanted to work on a (super)karamba converter, but since the library will be totally integrated in KDE now, I don't see any necessity. But, you're still welcome to work on it ;-)
Regarding konfabulator and dashboard a converter/interpreter might be more complicated, since they are using javascript and we don't have any plans at the moment to offer javascript support (js is a cpu/memory hog: I tried to use konfabulator on my windows machine some time ago...)
Edited 2006-01-02 17:09