Widget Wars: The battle for your desktop begins...
Saturday, September 4, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Longhorn may be over 2 years away but the battle for your desktop has begun. 5 programs offer various reasons for you to extend your Windows desktop with widgets. Most of them have hot keys for you to bring those widgets to the front (or hide them entirely). And all of them are very cool.
Check out this article that walks you through all 5 of them.
Frogboy
Reply #2 Saturday, September 4, 2004 1:47 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, September 4, 2004 1:47 PM
Yea, a database hicup, It should be fixed now (fingers crossed).
Hus
Reply #3 Saturday, September 4, 2004 2:23 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, September 4, 2004 2:23 PM
I think DX is miles ahead of the rest of them. AveDesk has so few objects, I can count them with my fingers and Samurize is too script-intensive for me, there's no easy way to edit an object unless you edit the script. I haven't tried Kapsules yet...
Will Rose
Reply #4 Saturday, September 4, 2004 5:38 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, September 4, 2004 5:38 PM
Are you sure you have your fingers FULLY crossed? It still gets duped for me, even if I go to the little "try this one instead" link at the top of the article. (and it does it for both links in IE and Firefox, if that's pertinent)
BruB
Reply #5 Saturday, September 4, 2004 8:50 PM
Reply #5 Saturday, September 4, 2004 8:50 PM
Actually a good article with no favoritism. great read and my hats of to the writter.
JoeWang
Reply #6 Saturday, September 4, 2004 9:25 PM
Reply #6 Saturday, September 4, 2004 9:25 PM
There is one important point, which is only said indirectly: The DesktopX Script Editor sucks. You guys really have to improve it (or write a plugin for Visual Studio/ to use that to write scripts).
Frogboy
Reply #7 Sunday, September 5, 2004 12:08 PM
Reply #7 Sunday, September 5, 2004 12:08 PM
Of the 5, only DesktopX includes a script editor (Samurize kind of does but it's basically just text, no auto complete or syntax error highlighting).
JoeWang
Reply #8 Monday, September 6, 2004 9:46 PM
Reply #8 Monday, September 6, 2004 9:46 PM
Maybe I am just too spoiled from my daily work with Visual Studio. A Object Inspector and a visible list of all methods of the current object would be great.
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Reply #1 Saturday, September 4, 2004 1:35 PM