Widgets you want to see?
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Wednesday, February 2, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: Widget Ideas
So what kinds of widgets would you like to see?
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BlueDev
Reply #42 Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:09 PM
Reply #42 Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:09 PM
I would also love to see a picture frame that can display pictures in subdirectories as well. That would be stellar.
Edivion
Reply #43 Thursday, August 18, 2005 5:12 AM
Reply #43 Thursday, August 18, 2005 5:12 AM
I really like to see a PIM Sytem like the one Konf.... offers. 
rabidrobot
Reply #44 Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:50 AM
Reply #44 Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:50 AM
I was thinking the other day how cool it would be to have an Audio Note Taker / Dictation widget like DesignCaddy mentioned. I don't know what I'm doing, but that would be a fun thing to work on.
Along the same lines, and inspired by Niall Brown, http://forum.deviantart.com/software/general/465529/9172184 , would be a quick small visualisation window responsive to mic line-in. (We already got Project #1 from the link worked out)
Also would like a System Sound Theme manager widget. Could package, save, load, and apply themes for System Sounds.
MP3 Tag editor widget.
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Along the same lines, and inspired by Niall Brown, http://forum.deviantart.com/software/general/465529/9172184 , would be a quick small visualisation window responsive to mic line-in. (We already got Project #1 from the link worked out)
Also would like a System Sound Theme manager widget. Could package, save, load, and apply themes for System Sounds.
MP3 Tag editor widget.
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ethsza
Reply #45 Friday, August 26, 2005 8:02 AM
Reply #45 Friday, August 26, 2005 8:02 AM
Generally it would be nice if widgets would be proxy aware. Currently I have a solution for this, but if my office notebook will be changed, I'll be stuck. For a short period the command line tool called proxycfg was available on microsoft's download page. This tool sets system-wide proxy settings, and used by non proxy-aware apps, as the rest are using their own settings. It can also fetch the proxy settings from your IE settings - comes handy in corporate environment, where proxy is set by a logon script.
Apart from this, it shouldn't be that hard to have a proxy property in DX.
About the widgets, I'd be happy with the following:
-a multi protocol IM widget similar to trillian
-a skinnable Google Talk widget
-a skinnable frontend for gmail
Bonus request:
I know it's not a widget's job, but stardock could come up with a working exposé clone under the umbrella of ObjectDesktop. Link
Apart from this, it shouldn't be that hard to have a proxy property in DX.
About the widgets, I'd be happy with the following:
-a multi protocol IM widget similar to trillian
-a skinnable Google Talk widget
-a skinnable frontend for gmail
Bonus request:
I know it's not a widget's job, but stardock could come up with a working exposé clone under the umbrella of ObjectDesktop. Link
5bigears
Reply #46 Monday, August 29, 2005 9:56 AM
Reply #46 Monday, August 29, 2005 9:56 AM
Hi PixelPirate,
just to let you know. There is an FTP program for Mac OS X that does what you want.
Captain FTP allows users to create Virtual folders on your desktop for any remote folder and as many as needed. You just drag and drop the file/folder on the Virtual Folder Icon.
Check it out:
http://captainftp.xdsnet.de/ftp/downloadfile.php
just to let you know. There is an FTP program for Mac OS X that does what you want.
Captain FTP allows users to create Virtual folders on your desktop for any remote folder and as many as needed. You just drag and drop the file/folder on the Virtual Folder Icon.
Check it out:
http://captainftp.xdsnet.de/ftp/downloadfile.php
ethsza
Reply #47 Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:02 AM
Reply #47 Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:02 AM
[OFF]
Am I a forum killer? Threads I start, or threads I post to won't seem to get more posts.
Prove me wrong... Brad, maybe a general comment on the above ideas?
Am I a forum killer? Threads I start, or threads I post to won't seem to get more posts.
Prove me wrong... Brad, maybe a general comment on the above ideas?
mtrent
Reply #48 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:57 PM
Reply #48 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:57 PM
I'd like to see a proxy widget, so other widgets can use local proxy server settings 
dar4121
Reply #49 Sunday, March 26, 2006 8:50 PM
Reply #49 Sunday, March 26, 2006 8:50 PM
How about a widget the reads xmltv code from Zap2It's website.
DigitalDanes
Reply #52 Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:38 PM
Reply #52 Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:38 PM
Fuel Price Checker Widget
made by _Martin_
can be found at http://www.desktopgadgets.com/gadgets.aspx?catid=4&order=updated&desc=1 at the bottom of the page
Works great and can be minimized or put in Quick Launch menu for a quick start to check prices before going out the door to gas up!
DD
made by _Martin_
can be found at http://www.desktopgadgets.com/gadgets.aspx?catid=4&order=updated&desc=1 at the bottom of the page
Works great and can be minimized or put in Quick Launch menu for a quick start to check prices before going out the door to gas up!
DD
werewolf
Reply #53 Saturday, June 17, 2006 3:27 PM
Reply #53 Saturday, June 17, 2006 3:27 PM
I was just introduced to a Yahoo widget which packs and unpacks various formats of compressed files including .rar. I would like to see a DX widget which performs similarly so I can get rid of the Yahoo widget engine 
RocketDogg
Reply #54 Monday, June 19, 2006 10:05 PM
Reply #54 Monday, June 19, 2006 10:05 PM
I listen to XM online and I would like to see a XM tuner widget so I can use Desktop X widgets. I use Yahoo widgets and they seem to take up a lot of resources. SO if someone can make one,that would be cool. 
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #55 Monday, June 19, 2006 11:20 PM
Reply #55 Monday, June 19, 2006 11:20 PM
"A DX coded start button that activates your start panel and a DX menu with the same click. If someone can accomplish this, I got a big thing brewing over here".(Comment #21)
Yo, NightTrain I think I can do this one (assuming the DX menu you refer has an Object id, this one is likely doable). I'll let you know, that is, if you're really interested. Ya, I just checked it's doable so long as the DX menu is configured as a Popup "Toggle" on the Relation Properties tab. Both become visible when it is activated. But ... there isn't anyway to toggle it off. I went offline and checked to see and okay, now that the DX menu is visible, how do you turn it off? If the Popup is set to menu-volatile it never becomes visible and if it is set to toggle you can't toggle it off from the same button. Oh Boy, spoke to soon.
Yo, NightTrain I think I can do this one (assuming the DX menu you refer has an Object id, this one is likely doable). I'll let you know, that is, if you're really interested. Ya, I just checked it's doable so long as the DX menu is configured as a Popup "Toggle" on the Relation Properties tab. Both become visible when it is activated. But ... there isn't anyway to toggle it off. I went offline and checked to see and okay, now that the DX menu is visible, how do you turn it off? If the Popup is set to menu-volatile it never becomes visible and if it is set to toggle you can't toggle it off from the same button. Oh Boy, spoke to soon.
donedds
Reply #56 Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:17 PM
Reply #56 Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:17 PM
I'm looking for a widget that can query and read a dBase file and display a few fields of data... suggestions?
nikita25582
Reply #57 Sunday, September 17, 2006 9:25 PM
Reply #57 Sunday, September 17, 2006 9:25 PM
is there any widget that can remove notification area from the windows bar.. i would like to hide that bar but still having those things at sight
STLron
Reply #58 Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:36 AM
Reply #58 Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:36 AM
I'm very new at this, so please bear with me...I'd like to have network activity lights..just a small inobtrusive widget with red and green (or whatever)lights to show activity, in and out. I don't need to know the speed, just a visual key, as it were. Thanks. 
sViz
Reply #59 Thursday, November 2, 2006 6:00 AM
Reply #59 Thursday, November 2, 2006 6:00 AM
Can anyone make or has anyone seen an RSS feed that scrolls like the bottom headlines we see on the news nowadays? That would be cool.
Woodbridge
Reply #60 Thursday, November 2, 2006 8:36 AM
Reply #60 Thursday, November 2, 2006 8:36 AM
I made a start in February this year on just that sort of scrolling RSS feed, but I put it on hold because of my work and moving house.
I have a version that is about 30% done. It uses XSL (CSS) to style the XML and displays it as a vertical scrolling webpage.
If anyone want to take the photoshop file and dxpack to finish it then they are more than welcome.
I have a version that is about 30% done. It uses XSL (CSS) to style the XML and displays it as a vertical scrolling webpage.
If anyone want to take the photoshop file and dxpack to finish it then they are more than welcome.
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Reply #41 Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:30 PM
Sounds great. I'd definitely check that one out.