Hi Gregg Isn't the main difference between Dashboard/Confabulator and View-top that in the former the widgets are contained within the main application window with the effect of considerably reducing "desktop" clutter? All widgets can be hidden (and re-displayed) with a single click.
I suspect this feature is one of the main attractions. Regards Peter On Wednesday, Dec 21, 2005, at 02:45 Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, Gregg Irwin wrote: > > Hi Boleslav, > > BB> Wwhat's the buzz about widgets? I mean, you can write an > BB> application in View as a VID style and call it 'widget'. There's > BB> no need for some framework or so. Or am I wrong? > > Part of it is "just marketing", but there is also value in providing a > few extra features that make it easy to write small apps that follow > certain standards (e.g. preferences, remembering last location). > > In many ways Viewtop is like a widget environment; giving you a way to > publish, discover, and launch scripts. So, why haven't more people > used it that way? How many of us use it on a daily basis? Would it be > enough to add a new bookmark or menu item linking to a dedicated area > for these kinds of things? I think we would also need a few tools to > help develop, publish, search, and "install" reblets; and is the > current layout model effective for this use? Should it auto-start > selected (installed) reblets automatically? Should it shut them down > automatically as well? These little features, and even imposing > constraints on what reblets can do, can actually be empowering IMO, > and help foster acceptance. > > Of course, we can do this ourselves. The Viewtop is open source, and > we can probably write most, if not all, of the desired functionality > in REBOL. Or someone could write their own. I'm sure I'm not the only > one with ideas and notes for just such a project. > > -- Gregg > > -- > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
