I was wondering if the gadgets for the windows vista sidebar (which are actually just .zip files renamed .gadget) could be made to appear on the IT desktop.
I know that the CPU speed and such couldn't, but some are just radio streams or cool clocks (like the one attached)
Could they be converted into a desktop applet?
They are just html, xml, sound, and image files.
Thanx

At the moment, I reeeaaaally dont think this is possible. But I would love to see an adobe air or yahoo widgets-like app that doesnt take up too much ram. There'd be alot more applets available for the home screen.

Not those particular ones as they are "owned" by a closed source company callled Microsoft, but perhaps something similar that runs on Linux...which is what the IT runs...coould be developed.

If you actually opened the attached file you would see it was simple website-type stuff.
You can view the app in a browser.
http://www.systemex.net/gadgets/TwentyFourClock/

I think it's a window manager issue on the tablets.

Not really ...

You can modify some python applet to render something in a gecko gtk widget ... not really hard ... but this will eat most of the cpu ... (and ram)

Could an applet be made of it?
It's just simple javascript.

just tried viewing the gadget in my IT browser.
I could see it fine

where's qwerty when you need him?

If it's a home applet you're after, Khertan might be a better person to ask
I see that he's already replied to this thread, I would pay attention to his post... He knows what he's talking about

What you're asking for is an applet that displays a webpage. This is do-able with python, but you'd be much better off just programming an applet targeted at the maemo desktop rather than trying to adapt vista-bloat.

or was there a specific applet that you wanted? 'cause there's already several 24 hour clock applets for the system already...