sidebar on linux

rjst · 07-05-2005, 10:03 AM

can anyone recommend any apps to get a longhrom-like sidebar on my debian linux (KDE) system? prefferably something like what's shown in this screenshot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Screenshot-6.png

Robattack · 07-05-2005, 10:24 AM

hi rjst,

the app that you are looking for is called superkaramba ;-). Its easy to handle and you can make it look like you want it to. Its an kde-app, available as tar.gz.
http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/ssuperkaramba.html
Probably it is also available via apt-get (i using mandriva, not debian, so i'm not sure).
there are a lot of different themes on http://www.kde-look.org.

have a look on it, hope thats what you want,

robattack

jtshaw · 07-05-2005, 10:37 AM

Actually, I'm quite certain the one in that screan shot is GDesklets which is the Gnome answer for Superkaramba (but will also work on KDE).

azucaro · 07-05-2005, 03:50 PM

...and if you don't feel like using superkaramba or gdesklets + a theme, you can just use gkrellm. In my experiences a smaller program that works with all DEs.

http://www.gkrellm.net

craigevil · 07-05-2005, 04:55 PM

torsmo is pretty neat also. Superkarama, gkrellm, gdesklets are all available via apt-get or Synaptic

kencaz · 07-05-2005, 05:08 PM

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Originally posted by craigevil
torsmo is pretty neat also. Superkarama, gkrellm, gdesklets are all available via apt-get or Synaptic

Great to see someone likes the forgotten Torsmo... Simple, easy to configure, to the point system information... Best I have used...

KC

rjst · 07-06-2005, 12:19 AM

I am now happily running gdesklets (on KDE) . It works very nicely, and I like the module selector thing. Only prob is that the only weather source is yahoo weather, which sucks because now i have a great big ? over the sun because they only have temperature information for my city.

Other than that, very nice. Thanks.

I might write me a php script to parse the weather information from www.bom.gov.au and ptu it in the same format as yahoo weather...