SuperKaramba
One of the things promised with the new windows vista
system is widgets.
Desktop widgets are usually little utilities like clocks, RSS readers
etc.
Windows users must be looking forward to this so it may come as a surprise to
learn that Linux has had these for quite some time. I recently tried out superKaramba
which is a program to give you these widgets on your desktop. My desktop
looks something like this at present.......
I have 3 widgets running. One liquid weather and two
Aero- all in one widgets, both configured differently.
SuperKaramba is the little blue earth like icon in the
right hand side of my menu bar.
clicking on the icon will allow me to install new
themes (what SuperKaramba loads) or to add to my desktop.
simply click on any of the themes and add them to
desktop or click new stuff.
Simple, isn't it?
I tend to prefer transparent widgets, but you get all different types.
This is how the Rss reader mentioned in new stuff
looks when running.
Of course, you can add rss feeds to your heart's content with this or
delete the ones you don't want.
Linux appears to be getting more and more so called
eye candy.
I find that I'd find my desktop too cluttered if I used all them , so I
keep it simple with partition information and the local weather. i also
like to see what the cpu is up to, and how much memory I have free.
however, here's another grab with yet another monitor
running and another rss reader.
SuperKaramba has hundreds of themes, or you can even write your own if
you can't find anything you particularly like.
A deceptively simple little piece of software that brightens up your
desktop. Try it out.
Show it off to your windows neighbour .
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