Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Jan 2006 17:05 UTC, submitted by KDE User
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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2005-07-03
If you read the reviews about OS X Tiger, you'll find that most of the reviewers didn't really use the dashboard very much.
I don't know about PowerMac G5 and "above" but on a standard PBook 1.25 with 512 Mb/RAm you don't want to use it at all. I have two widgets. One for Airport lan monitoring and weather. I rarely use them; except when I need to scan for WLANs. The fact the they are there eating ram when you have so little ram ...
even If I had 2GB i'd still think... why would i want to waste 200 mb for "that"
Other than that, Dashboard is nearly keyboard unusable... i mean, you can't move through the widgets using a keyboard, you have to use a Mouse then the whole point is defeated... if they acted more like exposé... I MIGHT consider using them some more.
I hope that the KDE team realizes this and makes the widgets accessible via keyboard.
Edited 2006-01-02 22:11