Comments on: Move Over Screenlets – Opera Desktop Widgets Come To Town

By: Rami Taibah

Rami Taibah — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:51:00 +0000

I played around with it a bit, and I am kind of disappointed. First of all these widgets don’t won’t be appearing on all my desktops. I run compiz with 5 desktops. It doesn’t really make sense having one widget on one dekstop. Second it doesn’t integerate with the widget thingy, I don’t know what you call it, but you press F9 to get it.

By: Khaled Khalil

Khaled Khalil — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:51:00 +0000

don’t forget adesklets http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/
they are still the best for dump systems.

by the way, Opera declared they will drop 10.2 in favor of 10.5, that will eventually include this widget policy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:04:00 +0000

Opera has launched great widgets and i am
ready to try one of that, and will provide
genuine reviews. Mio Navman Spirit S300

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:51:00 +0000

That looks awesome!

By: murderslastcrow@gmail.com

murderslastcrow@gmail.com — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:15:00 +0000

Nifty feature to bring to the desktop. This could win a lot of people over to both their widget framework AND their browser in one shot. Very interesting- I’ve always admired Opera for being out there exploring new fields of interest, showing that speed isn’t always the most important part of the browser (but you can pretty much have that, too).

By: Mohan

Mohan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:52:00 +0000

This is awesome, and I am loving the latest pre alpha release of 10.5 even though there isn’t a Linux version out just yet.

By: d0od

d0od — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:15:00 +0000

Oh that’s good to see, thanks for bringing that up. I’ll amend the post.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:52:00 +0000

I’m not convinced Google Gadgets development has actually ‘ground to a halt’. The last commit was 4 hours ago[1] and the last release was September ;)

[1] http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/source/list

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:49:00 +0000

Hopefully Gnome 3.0 will implement a native widget solution eventually.

By: Symod J. Urich

Symod J. Urich — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:32:00 +0000

That sounds great, because I’m sick of Screenlets crashing non stop. Latest bug: Now Playing screenlet simply doesn’t work, I just can’t find a way to even start it :S

By: AndrewNoNumbers

AndrewNoNumbers — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:18:00 +0000

This is awesome news. I used to use Opera widgets on Windows waaay back, and I was surprised at the selection and quality of them. Of course they were very inconvenient as you had to leave Opera open all the time and they had problems “sticking” to the desktop. And also thanks for the overview on all the Linux widget frameworks, I hadn’t payed much attention to these things lately.

By: Brandon Sheppard

Brandon Sheppard — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:12:00 +0000

The google gadgets site works fine for me. No 404 at all.

By: yomartins

yomartins — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:58:00 +0000

I’m waiting for Opera 10.5 pre-alpha :P