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I've created a Digital Picture Frame using an old laptop, DSL, etc.

Now...I want another in a frame to display specific home interest stuff. Specifically, I'd like a widget engine similar to Konfabulator to run small apps that are constantly updated via the web. With a wireless card in my frame, it would be easy. I'd like to display a calendar, the temperature, weather radar, etc. Hung by the door, we can easily see what's on tap for the day. Throw in a sports gadget from LiveScore, and dude, the perfect device.

Problem is, there's no widget engine for Linux...DSL that is.
You may check in myDSL Window Manager and dockapps.org

EDIT: You may be interesting in torsmo weather
Torsmo Weather is cool. Pretty soon there will be no space left for anything but Torsmo on my 640x480 LCD.
I'm looking for something with more glitz, graphics, etc. The Konfabulator(just like Apple's Dashboard) widgets are way cool.

Couldn't we get the OS X version to run on DSL? After all, it's *nix based.
The operating system is based on BSD, but the graphic system is, as far as I know, proprietary software.  The best that could be done is to find open source equivalents.

Perhaps gdesklets or superkaramba could be built to work in DSL (please don't look at me...i'm just suggesting :D )
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