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- Chris: Is there a time line for the Kludget Engine for Linux release. I love it on XP and I really...
- Ded: I used this program but how do you get these so called .style files? I searched customize.org and got no...
- Blogger: How do I get to hide the widgets? The dont go with the hotkey…
- Kadir: I can’t find default dashboard weather widget on the website…
- Activ1st: Nice job.
- eesa: mnm: its good BUT how do i get the dam mac widgets shown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you can find widget from http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/
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May 18, 2009 - 8:53 am
Great
May 21, 2009 - 12:17 am
Amazing work! I wrote a very short review on Kludget Engine at http://pozitifpc.com (I’m afraid its in Turkish!) since I dont know the internals and.. I’m a (very very) newbie javascript coder!
Since it relies on Qt libs, do you plan to release Linux & Mac OS versions as well?
May 21, 2009 - 2:24 am
Linux – yes, one of the many reason of using Qt libs is portability. Probably sooner if somebody volunteers to help.
MacOS, probably when or if I get a macbook. or when somebody volunteers too.
May 27, 2009 - 3:10 pm
I loved this Dashboard! Thank you very much! But i have a problem, i can’t run internet widgets… How can i do it? Like on the screen shot, it’s running iStat, i can’t run it…
Thank you!
May 27, 2009 - 10:00 pm
some dashboard widgets use plugins that work only on MacOs. the iStat screenshot uses an experimental port of it’s plugin.
I’ll post the plugin soon.
May 29, 2009 - 1:06 pm
I installed it on XP Pro SP3 ran some of the default widgets closed them tried a few dashboard widgets no go. Then tried default widgets again and they never appeared. closed the application and started it again same thing no default widgets will run now. Uninstalled and re-installed same situation. I was very interested in this app do you have any ideas why they fail to load now?
May 29, 2009 - 3:55 pm
please try to uninstall the widgets by selecting the menu
kludgets menu > add widget > clear listyou can also manually unintstall the widgets by deleting
c:\documents and settings\{username}\local settings\application data\mindhyve\kludgetsMay 29, 2009 - 6:47 pm
[quote]you can also manually unintstall the widgets by deleting
c:\documents and settings\{username}\local settings\application data\mindhyve\kludgets[/quote]
Ok I did that but I can still not get them to start again.
May 30, 2009 - 2:04 pm
Using Process Explorer I can see that the package starts (when added) but then stops. The context menu never changes it shows “Open Widget Package…”
May 30, 2009 - 8:58 pm
i love this amazing work , but i don’t know how to set the weather widgt to show the Chinese city ,who can tell me ,thanks a lot!
June 2, 2009 - 6:27 am
The widgets dont run
June 17, 2009 - 6:11 pm
which ones?
June 22, 2009 - 7:46 am
Hi, the widgets are running fine on windows and linux version but i have the problem that the used Ubuntu 9.0.4 webkit/GTK+ version does not render transparent (so do i have to modify this myself or do you link your own webkit version ?) and on windows i have the problem i cannot move the widgets although they render very well in XP-SP3 on VMWare (Fusion on Mac OS X Leopard). Any simple things i might do wrong here ? As noone else seem to have this problem i might need to compile myself (but i would need to setup the complex toolchain first and prefer to build a Mac OS X or Linux version based on Qt 4.5). Any ideas ?
June 22, 2009 - 8:36 am
@Christian Wolf
hey, thanks for testing the linux version
#1 The linux version … is compiled and statically linked with a patched QtWebkit.
please download the latest 0.9.20090622 . i think i release versions too often without thorough testing 
#2 On Windows … that was a bug
You can build by dynamically linking with the official QtWebkit release.
But edit this line:
kview.cpp
line 10: #define ENABLE_DASHBOARD_SUPPORT 0
and then you can move widgets by holding the left mouse button + while pressing CTRL
on linux, with Qt4.5, gcc. no complex toolchain.
i just added these packages from Synaptic: qt4.5 dev, gcc.
you can even use qtCreator
regarding the transparency bug. i’m not sure yet. i didn’t have to patch qtwebkit for that.
June 22, 2009 - 8:41 am
@Christian Wolf
i remember. i did this for windows:
void QWebView::setPage(QWebPage *page)
{
//setAttribute(Qt::WA_OpaquePaintEvent, d->page);
}
commented that out. i didn’t have to that though for the linux build
July 10, 2009 - 2:07 am
Hi,
Tried Kludget and I am very amazed. Just great to use the dsashboard widgets. Just one issue with the program.
When I hit F11 to show the widgets it works well, but if I hit again, they should dissapear, but they don´t.
Is this due to wrong options or is it the program?
By the way, has anyone a link to the original dashboard widgets?
Ghostwalker?
August 16, 2009 - 4:34 am
Hi guys,
seems to be a nice Engine, but can anyone tell me, how I can run Yahoo Wigets with Kludget?
Thanks
August 20, 2009 - 7:43 pm
I am amazed, this is incredible. The majority of my Mac Widgets work on here.
I would love the problem of the widgets not being hidden fixed, Is there any news on this?
September 11, 2009 - 8:06 pm
Hi,
Tried Kludget and I am very amazed. Just great to use the dsashboard widgets. Just one issue with the program.
When I hit F11 to show the widgets it works well, but if I hit again, they should dissapear, but they don´t.
Is this due to wrong options or is it the program?
By the way, has anyone a link to the original dashboard widgets?
Ghostwalker?…
September 22, 2009 - 7:24 pm
Hello everybody,
I’ve tried to get the “Festive Lights” Widget for Mac OSX to work for a while now. I’m using Kludgets 0.9.1, Linux on Ubuntu 9.04. I really love this widget and I’m craving to get it working, but for some reason the widget does not appear when I install and try to open it. Other widgets worked great. So I’m wondering if a port is possible, or if any new technology (code-wise) is needed before this widget will work. Finally, what programming language does the Kludget Engine use?
Thank you for your time.
-Synapse
September 23, 2009 - 1:26 am
i’ll check festive lights this weekend and see what i can do. widgets are in HTML/javascript.
the widget engine is coded in c++
September 23, 2009 - 5:14 pm
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your positive feedback. Thanks again for looking into my problem!
-Synapse
September 26, 2009 - 3:01 pm
@kludgeteer
Just as an additional note, I have filed a bug report previously. It has more information about the problem, including a screenshot. I hope you find it useful.
http://code.google.com/p/kludgets/issues/detail?id=6
The website below has more lightsets that I would like to use when this widget is working. I’m thinking that if the main widget is fully functional then these themes can be installed easily as well… please let me know if this is not the case.
To get additional themes for Festive Lights:
http://www.interdimensionmedia.com/widgets/lights/lightsets.html
Thanks and Good Luck!
-Synapse, aka physicist778 (on the bug report page)
October 21, 2009 - 7:15 pm
hi, tried to run kludget but i got this popup window which says “kludgets failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. please see the app event log for detail”.
please advise. thanks.
November 7, 2009 - 6:15 am
@amy
are you using a netbook. kludgets is known to have problems with some netbooks
November 19, 2009 - 4:19 pm
with flyakiteos, it makes my windows really seem like mac os x…
November 21, 2009 - 2:30 pm
Hi, nice & usefull tool!
I was disappointed a little bit when returning to the desktop from another program by use of “Win+D” keys first – because the desktop was “naked” without the widgets.
But the “Win+M” keys seems to solve this.
thx a lot!
November 26, 2009 - 5:54 am
hi
in both 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 i was unable to run some default OSX widgets properly.
I run windows 7 x64 and tested:
ical – fail (buggy, only shows the day tab, others are blank)
dictionary translation, world clock, unit converter and stocks can’t connect to internet
what am I doing wrong?
thx!
November 26, 2009 - 5:32 pm
some OSX widget wouldn’t work as they need native MACOSX plugins or applications.
ical widget would need the ICal application for example.
December 3, 2009 - 7:17 am
kludgets on ubuntu says there’s a newer runtime availabe, but the link to google is for 0.9.1
December 3, 2009 - 7:11 pm
linux has largely been left behind at 0.9.1 –still looking for maintainers