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Konfabulator for Windows

Russ gives Konfabulator for Windows a big thumbs up. And sure, it’s cool, and the widgets are really nicely done graphically.

But I’m still too much of a textmode guy to really appreciate it. Even though I use an analogue watch, I prefer the modeline of my emacs to show me the date, time, and week of year. I prefer to ask the mobibot the values of the stocks I follow, and the weather can be gauged by looking out of the window.

Besides, I have my screen full of apps. I never see my desktop.

But perhaps I’ll come round. If only Windows had working virtual desktop support.

Frank has some more thoughts.

Regarding the mobile angle, I’m not wholly convinced that Konfabulator would work “out of the box”. It’s very mouse-oriented (being based on JavaScript, after all). There are some difficulties in getting it to work in the majority of devices that have keypad/joystick input.

But for ease of development, I’m sure it can’t be beat.

Update: I maybe should have mentioned the number 1 reason I didn’t stick with Konfabulator: no nixie tube clock widgets.

Comments

Nick Wilson writes:

Besides, I have my screen full of apps. I never see my desktop

Being a 100% Linux guy, the first thing I do when i boot is open about a half dozen command line screens. I like the look of konfabulator but isnt it just a pretty toy?

For people that spend much of their waking day in front of a pc, like me, its so much simpler to be “text orientated”. Whereas I browse graphically, have some neat games and stuff I occasionaly get time to play, i really do appreciate a good functional no thrills text app.

Take email for example, Mutt is my app of choice, its ugly, but highly functional and very powerful.

I think things like konfabulator will be the ‘darling of the moment’ at very best. Give me solid functionality without thrills any day of the week..

Nick W

I’m with you all the way, Nick, but I still think we (Linux users and Windows “power users”) are a minority. Konfabulator represents the eye-candy market which is much bigger than the fast-and-effective command line market. It may be faddish, but there’s money in them thar faddish hills.

Updated on Wednesday, 2024-11-10. Posted at 23:48, in the comp category. Comments [0]