Re: [tuxdroid-user] Wiki update

[Florent T. <ft...@gm...>]

About the widgets, it's a great idea ! But the choice of app will be important:

There's screenlets, which looks very promising:
http://hendrik.kaju.pri.ee/screenlets/

" Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python, a
very simple object-oriented programming-language) that can be
described as "the virtual representation of things lying/standing
around on your desk". Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, the possibilities
are endless. The goal of the Screenlets base-class is to simplify the
creation of fully themeable mini-apps that each solve basic
desktop-work-related needs and generally improve the usability and
eye-candy of the modern Linux desktop. "

* it looks nice
* it has meteo, clocks, etc... <---- who said text to speech?
* it uses python and gnome
* beryl hackers just introduced screenlets support
(http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=714671), an OSX
Dashboard like.

Let's just hope they will eventually support osx's widget format one day...

What do you think? Should we build widgets using screenlets?

Florent