March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Ai Karamba! Flashy KDE Gadgets! #37
Chapter 5, KDE Desktop
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Ai Karamba! Flashy KDE Gadgets! Hack #37
Spiff up your KDE desktop with various information panels and interactive
gadgets.
This tip involves two programs, karamba and superkaramba. The author of
the original program, karamba, is Hans Karlsson (karlsson.h@home.se). The
karamba project started out as a clone of a Windows program called Samur-
ize, which displayed system information, such as system temperature, net-
work traffic, CPU activity, etc., in attractive ways. The primary function of
karamba was to display similar information on your KDE desktop, and it
did it with such flair and style that it attracted a huge number of hackers to
create more inventive and attractive ways of displaying various types of
information, such as local weather data and forecasts.
But karamba had one notable limitation. The gadgets were pretty, but not
terribly interactive. You could configure them and display them, but that
was all.
Adam Geitgey (adam@rootnode.org), with a little help from his friends, took
karamba to new heights by creating superkaramba. This handy utility intro-
duced the ability to interact with the gadgets, combining the artistic appeal
of the karamba gadgets with live action. One of the first things hackers did
with superkaramba was to create much more attractive alternatives to the
KDE panel, task switcher, and launcher. ...
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