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

[Thelwyn]

I think this could go to Userbase. I can report it there.

Where could it be reported? (that is what would be the best section?)

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Regards,
Kolia


2009/10/6 david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com>

> 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.
>
> --
> David
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