by Mark Gibbs

KDE to run Mac OS X Dashboard widgets

Opinion

Jan 2, 20061 min

On New Year’s Day, Zack Rusin, a lead developer of KDE, noted in his blog: “I’m planning to add full OSX Dashboard compatibility layer for Plasma.”

Is that a cool idea or what? A note on AppleXNet explains: “this is different from similar efforts from Yahoo and Microsoft on creating small desktop widgets or gadgets, in that KDE’s runtime will be able to run most widgets designed for Dashboard. Also, KDE’s runtime will be limited in that it will not be able to run widgets properly that use AppleScript or Cocoa in some way. Likewise, it’s possible that Mac OS X users may also have to face not being able to run some widgets that depend on KDE somehow.”

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by Mark Gibbs

Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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