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Desktop Widgets for eCS-OS2 ??

Started by miturbide, 2011.03.24, 23:28:42

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Joachim

Quote from: miturbide on 2011.03.24, 23:28:42
Here it is a screenshot of Kludgets port.
http://kludgets.com/

Wow! That is cool! It is not listed under the qt-apps page at netlabs (yet) - where to find it?
We only seem to miss alpha-channel/transparency support on the desktop.

Nice, thanks!

Joachim

miturbide

I also agreed that is cool.

Salvador is working on this port. It is just a test version that he sent me.

Still misses:
- Transparency
- Shourtcuts enablement
- some documentation
- nice installer

Martin.
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melf

Really a nice beginning, with transparency it would be real cool!
/Mikael

Joachim

Hello Martin,

is this (kludget port) still under development?

Thanks,

Joachim

Pete

Hi All

I'm sure this will appeal to some people but it does not get me excited in any way.

Maybe I'm missing something here but it looks like a collection of applets cluttering up the desktop.


Regards

Pete

miturbide

Hi Joachim

I haven't got a reply from Salvador.  I'm not sure if it is going to be finished this port.

He told me that was a very easy to port thing, but I don't know more. I just hope the transparency can get fixed.

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ivan

I have to side with Pete on this.

What do they do for a working system?  I can see they would appeal to the 'Oooo shiny shiny' brigade but unless they can help with getting work done they are useless.

Now, if someone ported LibreOffice 3.3 - without the java junk - then I would get excited.

ivan

miturbide

Kludgets and desktop widgets looks appealing to me. Specially when several eCS users put on their whishlist for this year that the GUI requires a little bit of "love".
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melf

Yep, I agree
A more up-to-date, modern, stylish or whatever word will suit, is needed to attract new users even though functionality and usability may outrun that in the long run.
/Mikael

Pete

Hi All

I'm not going to disagree with either Martin or Melf: Yes, the eCS "GUI requires a little bit of "love"". something "more up-to-date, modern, stylish or whatever word will suit".

However, if you want to get the attention of potential new users through the interface then the eCS gui needs updating so that it can handle transparency and round corners - neither of which are built into OS/2 or eCS. I don't think putting a clutter of applets with those capabilities onto the desktop is really the way to go to get the attention of potential new users.

Regards

Pete





Joachim

Quote from: Pete on 2011.08.19, 18:54:57
Hi All

I'm sure this will appeal to some people but it does not get me excited in any way.

Maybe I'm missing something here but it looks like a collection of applets cluttering up the desktop.


Regards

Pete

One thing you might have missed is that the kludget engine actually supports Mac OS X widgets. There are a *lot* of them and obviously not all of them are all that useful, but there are plenty around that are nice to have. Nothing critical or essential, but nice nonetheless.
See http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/ for an overview.

Regards,

Joachim

Pete

Hi Joachim

No, I did not realise that this kludgets engine supports Mac OS X widgets - does not change my opinion anyway  :-)

Regards

Pete


Blonde Guy

Quote from: Pete on 2011.08.21, 03:56:13

However, if you want to get the attention of potential new users through the interface then the eCS gui needs updating so that it can handle transparency and round corners - neither of which are built into OS/2 or eCS. I don't think putting a clutter of applets with those capabilities onto the desktop is really the way to go to get the attention of potential new users.


Having that capability in Qt is enough. It shouldn't be that hard to rewrite basic eCS applets under Qt. Older OS/2 apps look cool because they don't have a modern GUI.

The entire PC market is already closing in on being a niche market, and that includes MacOS and Windows. What would be even cooler that applets from MacOS, would be apps from Android and IOS.

Neil
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ivan

I have yet to find one of these 'cool' things that make actual work any easier.

Anyone wanting to attract new users to OS/2 should be concentrating on productivity items, not gadgets that do nothing other than look cool.  Something like LibreOffice 3.3 (without or with java), Sigil 0.4.0 - both of these for ePub production, in fact anything that brings the productivity of OS/2 up to date.

ivan