Screenlets without Gnome

[inspirra]

To adapt the Screenlets under the KDE it is planned? Or another, not Gnome, a desktop the manager.

[whise]

they work without gnome ... but some use specific gnome commands

[RYX]

Hi inspirra!

The screenlets work with any desktop environment (or without one), they just use GTK for their windowing. Some people may relate them to gnome because of that, but they are absolutely not gnome-only and work well under e.g. KDE and xfce ...

(I am even thinking of completely removing the gtk dependency somewhen in the distant future ...)

:)

[Aldoo]

Having QT menus and dialogs instead of GTK ones would certainly look nicer on my KDE desktop !
That makes me think of what is coming next. KDE4 will provide plasma and its plasmoids.
What will be the main differences between a plasmoid and a screenlet, then ?

I guess screenlets will be better integrated with compiz (but it should be easy to put a plasmoid in the widget layer though... if kwin4 does not provide a widget layer itself !).
Are there fundamental differences between what can be done with both systems (apart from integration issues) ?

[RYX]

I have no idea how plasmoids are made, but I am sure they will perfectly integrate into KDE and will raise a lot attention. However - I think the world is big enough for more than just one widget engine/framework .. :)

Also the screenlets are still fairly different from all other widget/desklet engines. First they are "real" apps - no other widget system works like that. All other systems have a host-application that runs the widgets. Also I didn't see an integrated theme-support in any other framework ...

Concerning QT/gtk I already planned to add support for different windowing backends, but this isn't really easy so I scheduled it to somewhen after the 0.2 series ...

(btw: the screenlets also perfectly integrate with XFCE4, without any additional fiddling or app ... but compiz gives a better performance than xfwm4)

:)