I think this could go to Userbase. I can report it there.<br><br>Where could it be reported? (that is what would be the best section?)<br><br>--<br>Regards,<br>Kolia<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/6 david <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thomas Olsen wrote:<br>
<div class="im">> On 5/10-2009 10:51 david wrote:<br>
>> Windows Vista has a desktop widget thing (I think they call it the Side<br>
>> Bar?) that shows some news headlines in a vertical list and a big analog<br>
>> clock. My wife saw that on my parents' Windows Vista PC - and now she<br>
>> wants that on her desktop. Sigh.<br>
>><br>
>> Anything like it for KDE?<br>
><br>
> Like this?<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tanghus/Screenies#5389043974390891410" target="_blank">http://picasaweb.google.com/tanghus/Screenies#5389043974390891410</a><br>
><br>
> Just add a panel, resize it, set it to auto hide, add widgets "Analog Clock"<br>
> and "RSSNOW". Easy peasy ;-)<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">Kolia wrote:<br>
<br>
> I can't check myself right now but you could try this:<br>
><br>
> Add a panel on a side of your screen<br>
> Add the "News" (not sure of the english name, the icon is RSS orange icon) and "analogic clock" plasmoids to this panel<br>
> Set this panel to auto-hide<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">Duncan wrote:<br>
<br>
> In addition to the suggestions of the others, there's a plasmoid<br>
> available for download on kdelook with the purpose of cloning the MS<br>
> sidebar for KDE. I was looking for something else and not much<br>
> interested in it when I came across it, so IDR that much more about it,<br>
> including the name, but it's there, if you're interested in searching for<br>
> it.<br>
<br>
</div>Thanks, all. Now I just have to convince my wife to accept changing her<br>
UI from KDE3 to KDE4 ... or I can just browse around at <a href="http://kdelook.org" target="_blank">kdelook.org</a> and<br>
see if something there works with KDE3.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
--<br>
David<br>
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