[kde-linux] Desktop widget like Windows Vista sidebar/clock thing?

[david]

Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On 5/10-2009 10:51 david wrote:
>> Windows Vista has a desktop widget thing (I think they call it the Side
>> Bar?) that shows some news headlines in a vertical list and a big analog
>> clock. My wife saw that on my parents' Windows Vista PC - and now she
>> wants that on her desktop. Sigh.
>>
>> Anything like it for KDE?
> 
> Like this?
> 
> http://picasaweb.google.com/tanghus/Screenies#5389043974390891410
> 
> Just add a panel, resize it, set it to auto hide, add widgets "Analog Clock" 
> and "RSSNOW". Easy peasy ;-)

Kolia wrote:

> I can't check myself right now but you could try this:
> 
> Add a panel on a side of your screen
> Add the "News" (not sure of the english name, the icon is RSS orange icon) and "analogic clock" plasmoids to this panel
> Set this panel to auto-hide

Duncan wrote:

> In addition to the suggestions of the others, there's a plasmoid 
> available for download on kdelook with the purpose of cloning the MS 
> sidebar for KDE.  I was looking for something else and not much 
> interested in it when I came across it, so IDR that much more about it, 
> including the name, but it's there, if you're interested in searching for 
> it.

Thanks, all. Now I just have to convince my wife to accept changing her 
UI from KDE3 to KDE4 ... or I can just browse around at kdelook.org and 
see if something there works with KDE3.

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David
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