desklets
Par Benoît Dejean le jeudi, 28 juin 2007, 16:03 - GNOME - Lien permanent
I can see more and more screenshots about moonlight-based desklets.
Hey guys, gdesklets has been around since Fall 2003 !
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Par Benoît Dejean le jeudi, 28 juin 2007, 16:03 - GNOME - Lien permanent
I can see more and more screenshots about moonlight-based desklets.
Hey guys, gdesklets has been around since Fall 2003 !
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Hey!
We know about gdesklets, but we want to build our own because building them with XAML and C# is quite fun.
Miguel.
Not to mention it means another opportunity to look good in front of Microsoft...
Hi,
You're right, but gdesklet needs more love. It's not even part of Gnome desktop :s. I'm pretty sure MacSlow could do some great job on it !
Étienne.
There's one huge advantage in using Flash or Silverlight for desklets: You can download new ones from the web and have them run in a sandboxed environment without them being able to do evil things.
That's about the cool things. The rest is just "we need a way to pimp our cool technology."
Benjamin > but gdesklets does exactly that ! You can even do simpler : ship the XML UI + some python scripting within the same XML file. Easy to get desklets. And you can use gdesklets with gnomevfs i.e. gdesklest http://...
Etienne > Moonlight is a demo ... so give you back your "It's not even part of Gnome desktop"
I don't want to ad for anything, but some people think that the SomethingLight approach is new. It's not. There are already many popular desklets engine, gdesklets being the more GNOMEish.
yet another desklet technology... the fun about them is the hability to do desklets quick and easy, and that they would work everywhere. With so many different frameworks I don't think it's going to be easy... At least kde and gnome could get a freedesktop spec and both plasma & gdesklets implement them.
Odd. I had a long post explaining our position on innovation and Moonlight desklets and it got deleted.
Maybe a database corruption issue?
Hum, sorry Miguel, i don't know what happened. I can't see your comment anywhere.
It's just NIH syndrome.
gDesklets failed. Completely.
Most of the desklets are really buggy. They also do not know about themeing. Meaning that they are bolted to some specific gtk/gnome themes etc, and you must use only the ones from the same set. And there are many sets, of bad quality. Bugs, lack of features, ..
Blah. gDesklets is a miserable failure, one of the worst I have ever seen on open source.
Ah, that is a shame.
Anyways, I have posted a blog entry in my blog that explains why we are doing this. Basically: we want to toy, experiment and learn.
And we have a very nice platform that *we* like. Others might not like it, others might prefer SuperKaramba, gDesklets or to run a plain X server with twm. But like with language taste you cant really force the same on everyone.
miguel.
gdesklets also suffers from a mostly dead upstream, memory leaks, and made code.
Ask pyguy, the guy who wrote gdesklets.
No offense to the gdesklet folks, but gdesklets is not good software. I tried to love it for years, but it develops at an incredibly slow pace, is extremely buggy, and is prone to breakage. I had high hopes that gdesklets would get better with time, but it doesn't seem that way. (And before you tell me to go help them, I'm not a Python coder, and never will be.) Thats not to say that this new Moonlight desklets thing is the answer, but I wouldn't use gdesklets now anyways.
That being said, sorry to be negative. If gdesklets is improved, I will absolutely make sure I say so and give it a try, but I can't recommend it to anyone as it is.+