Comments on: How To/Roundup: Widgets on Ubuntu

By: InTheLoop

InTheLoop — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:59:56 +0000

Anonymousse – Agreed. See this Brainstorm idea:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4813/

By: Anonymousse

Anonymousse — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:18:14 +0000

These should work flawlessly even without Compiz turned on.

By: Anonymousse

Anonymousse — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:17:05 +0000

It should be easy to install these, with just a mouse-click to select and another to’Apply’. It should be ready for beginners like my Mom, not geeks alone. This message is for Ubuntu team.

By: InTheLoop

InTheLoop — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:04:07 +0000

Yep, sorry. Fixing it now.

By: sexysofie

sexysofie — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:57:48 +0000

probably just a typo, huh?

By: sexysofie

sexysofie — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:55:28 +0000

i’m sorry, i couldn’t read past the mistake in the first sentence so i simply closed the tab but i came back to play grammar nazi with this comment. i still didn’t read any further though. i’m sure this was an interesting article.

“Windows Vista has gadgets, Mac OS X has widgets, KDE users have plasmoids, but what if your an Ubuntu user?”

By: InTheLoop

InTheLoop — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:49:25 +0000

Azerthouth – I am not confusing DEs and distros in any way really. Every distribution does things a little differently, has different packages installed by default, different ways of installing packages, and different packages in the repositories. I wrote an article about widgets on Ubuntu. Sure, every option I mentioned here could be used on any GNOME-based distribution, but it might not be in the repositories or the version in the repositories might be buggy. Or perhaps there is some compatibility problem related to the exact software in that distribution. Even with virtual machines, I can’t test software on every distribution, so (since I run Ubuntu and it is a very common distro) I wrote a guide for widgets on Ubuntu. An advanced user will have no problem translating this information to other distributions, but I have only tested this on one: Ubuntu.

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:26:58 +0000

Google Gadgets are widgets on their own also (http://www.getdeb.net/search.php?keywords=google+gadgets)

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:40:05 +0000

KDE3 users also have Karamba and SuperKaramba applets; KDE4 users can use (Super)Karamba applets in addition to the Plasmoids, as well as Mac OSX Widgets.

Additionally, Google has Google Gadgets available for both GNOME and KDE, but I have never tried them myself. More here http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/

By: Azerthoth

Azerthoth — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:09:28 +0000

Will you please stop confusing Desktop Environment / Window Manager with distributions. You are talking about Gnome, not Ubuntu. The DE does not a distribution make. The actual information, after getting past that singular glaringly large inaccuracy is good, just that the scale of the inaccuracy kind of over shadows the good bits, and yet you keep doing it.