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thanks a lot for the inspiration!

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:29, Joern Konopka <cldx3000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> On 19.08.2010, at 23:34, Apoorva Sharma < <appi2012@xxxxxxxxx>
> appi2012@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Mark Shuttleworth < <mark@xxxxxxxxxx><mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>>  On 08/08/10 20:49, Apoorva Sharma wrote:
>> > I like all these ideas, but why not do what KDE4 did, and present a
>> > desktop of files, a zeitgeist timeline, etc. as widgets, so you could
>> > have access to files and useful information?
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>> I do think a gadget story is interesting. There's no really compelling
>> framework out there today, though. Google's implementations have a lot
>> of rendering and usability problems, and the gadgets are not attractive.
>> Yahoo's is closed source. The others are marginal.
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> I was thinking more on the lines of desktop implementations, not web
> implemtation, like KDE4's Plasma.
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> Am I missing a good candidate?
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> I don't think you forgot to mention any specific candidate, but is it
> possible to create an implementation ourselves? It wouldn't need so many
> gadgets, just a clock, file view, and notes should be enough to start.
> However, if we had a good framework for developing more, I'm sure more will
> follow.
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> Also, something like this could possibly work:
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> <http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/plasmadashboard-equivalent-coming-to.html><http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/plasmadashboard-equivalent-coming-to.html>
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/plasmadashboard-equivalent-coming-to.html
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> If I may lead attention to SeedKit for a second:
> <http://live.gnome.org/SeedKit> <http://live.gnome.org/SeedKit>
> http://live.gnome.org/SeedKit
>  <http://live.gnome.org/SeedKit>In a nutshell it's a gtkWidget holding a
> (optionally) transparent webkit container, it ties strongly with the Seed
> JavaScript Implementation, GObject Introspection and DBUS (all the sweet
> stuff everyones looking at right now).
> I think by putting WebTechnology in the front row we'll have the highest
> possible developer base. Just imagine something like A Ubuntu Widget Website
> not unlike Android Market or the App Store ( or a tie in with the USC )
> where people can upload new Widgets which provide them with capabilities
> like :
> 1. Easy to learn and get into ( any other guy could write a basic Widget
> within under a Day)
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> 2. Are easily portable to other Mobile Devices, Websites and Distributions
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> 3. Offers Devs of f.e. iPhone HTML5 Apps a very convenient way to bring
> their Apps to a new Audience in form of a Widget.
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> The sweet thing about it, it's already working and would only need the
> WM_CLASS treatment (meaning a window class for widgets of course).
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> One could even go as far as supplying the Widget with a pull and push
> function (Pull= a "real" GTKWindow, push=move back to widget space) and you
> could even "listen" to the window state via CSS Media Queries.
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> Proof of concept:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1890515/MiniPlayerPreview.ogv
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> I pulled this off in just a couple hours even though I never used Seedkit
> before.
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> Best Regards, Joern
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