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In a move that absolutely no one asked for: These widgets are actually zip files with web resources plus some metadata. 30 comments
@polyfloyd@hsnl.social i need this so much @polyfloyd@hsnl.social I hope you're porting over the numerous vulnerabilities from Windows' implementation :02chibi:  @polyfloyd i asked for this, you just didn't know this yet. ping me when you get this running on gnome @polyfloyd Looks so cool :D  @polyfloyd@hsnl.social Damn I didn't know I missed these Gadgets so much before reading this message, thank you 😭 @polyfloyd the vista era was when i really started to look into switching to linux full time. the irony with that was that i actually found the vista hate to be overblown. i found it to be fine, good even. but i happened at the time to start believing that the best way to make the world better was to spend as little money on anything as possible as an act of rebellion. anyway. i got of topic there a little bit. i think celebrating the things vista got right is a good thing   Source here: https://github.com/polyfloyd/gadgets-for-linux It's still super limited in functionality and only runs on whatever GTK-Layer-Shell supports. I doubt I will spend a more time on this than a few hours per week. But you can play with the 3 gadgets in the screenshot though. Have fun making Frutiger Aero unix porn screenshots y'all @polyfloyd Wait is this the precursor to Microsoft immediately-deprecated windows 8 JS app platform?   @polyfloyd These were nice little useful tools. I did a few articles for printed magazines back then.  @polyfloyd it should be possible to do something similar for the MacOS X Dashboard widgets from the early 2000s, they were also web stuff rendered by shapeless windows.     |
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@polyfloyd oh I absolutely would have asked