Posts tagged widgets

Netvibes on the Kludget Engine

Netvibes is a great source for widgets.

I tested several of their widgets. And they look really good on the desktop.

netvibes

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Kludgets and Cygwin

Warning: This is a little bit of a technical post.

When a widget is installed by the engine, it will prompt you to grant access permissions. There are a lot of widgets that will require system commands. They usually come in the form of shell commands like:

/usr/bin/id
or
/usr/bin/curl

And these commands are called in javascript through the widget.system() method.

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Kludget Engine first beta Release

kludgets-preview

The Kludget Engine Beta is finally here. Dashboard compatible,Webkit-based, Nokia QT-based (multi-platform), Yahoo Widget Engine inspired, open sourced.

Kludget Engine – Free :)


The source may be downloaded from code.google.com, project name is kludgets.