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MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by stormwind on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @15:12

Does someone know how to install Dashboard Widgets? I compiled trunk but the only option i get is "Plasmoid: Native plasma widget" - no Superkaramba and no MacOS Dashboard Widgets.

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by Max on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @15:45

Yea I saw that, and I was like wow!!!

we'll definitely need tutorial videos that show off all these features. The apple guys are doing it, I see no reason why we can't have a collection of KDE tutorial videos somewhere.

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by Morty on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @08:34

You know the apple guys have one odd thing called employees, which can be directed to do stuff like this. KDE on the other hand don't. And the small amount of contributors are kind of busy with other stuff like writing code, documentation, translations or doing artwork.

Places to put such collections should not be a problem, the only thing missing are contributors doing the job. You could volunteer, just start making them videos and you'll receive instant fame in the KDE comunity.

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by Jonathan Thomas on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @06:06

You could download/burn a OpenSuSe KDE 4 live CD. I know that the latest livecd has support for MacOS dashboard widgets.

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by stormwind on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @08:27

Thanks - i will try that.
Nevertheless is it odd that the version i compiled from trunk yesterday, doesn't offer this option to me. Apparently i am missing a module or a dependency.

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by Hias on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @08:46

Maybe it's in playground. I also use trunk and don't habe dashboard widgets, but I think I need the webapplet from playground. The problem is, that there is a patch that needs to be applied to webkit to get the webapplet compiled. I'm trying to build qt-copy with that patch at the moment.

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by stormwind on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @10:54

Could you post here, if you are successful?

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by Hias on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @15:56

I was partially successful. I can now add dashboard widgets, but when I add them to the desktop I get the following error
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This object could not be created for the following reason:
Could not open the dashboard_com.Mike.widget.ChuckNorrisFacts package required for the ChuckNorrisFacts widget.
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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by stormwind on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @03:26

Hmmmm, at least a step in the right direction.
So you compiled /trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/webapplet/? Where did you get the patch for qt-copy?
I would like to try it myself.

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by Hias on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @06:01

I compiled the whole playground/base/plasma, except the worldclock, because it fails to build.
The patch is in the webapplet directory, it's contents.diff. It adds the contentsSize() function to the webframe class.
Good luck

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by stormwind on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @15:07

Didn't work for me. For some reason compiling of kdebase failed. Seems, that i have to hope that qt-work will be updated soon.

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[SOLVED] Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by stormwind on Friday 04/Apr/2008, @03:33

The new version of qt-copy solved all my problems: after compiling the new qt-copy, kdebase and playground/*/plasma i can now add working Dashboard Widgets to Plasma.
Thanks for your help!

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by Tom on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @04:13

Same here.

I can compile the web applet from playground, and am able to install widgets, but I cannot add them to the desktop.
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Could not open the dashboard_com.whatsinthehouse.widget.wikipedia package required for the Wikipedia widget.
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Running qt-4.4.1 snapshot from 20080329 with qt-copy patches applied + today's KDE trunk.

I also tried loading the provided HelloWorld test applet:
that one does load, but looks a bit flakey.

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by Hias on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @06:03

From where did you get the qt snapshot?

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Re: MacOS Dashboard Widgets
by Tom on Saturday 05/Apr/2008, @09:33

From the trolltech FTP server.
ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/pub/qt/snapshots/

For Gentoo there are ebuilds available on the forums.

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