I just got hip to these little applet thingys called "widgets". Mac OS-X started them, but in some divine miracle, Konfabulator is also a Windows XP program too. There like a thousand of these little widget/applet things -- all free -- that do all kinds of amazing things from the obligatory calculators, clocks, RSS feeds, etc, but even more advanced stuff, I have one that controls my TiVo!
http://www.widgetgallery.com/ It looks like they are just basically a javascript language and a way to run them on the desktop. I did some google searching for "widget" and "linux" but can't find anything aside from (G)Tk stuff. This would be a fantastic project for someone with more X-windows/KDE/Gnome skills than me to tackle. Then all those fancy OS-X/XP widgets would just work too! How great is that?! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
