Digital Home

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Digital Home
started by: Neb

Posted by Neb on Mar. 29 2006,04:15

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.

Posted by hs7sv on Mar. 29 2006,06:06

You may check in < myDSL Window Manager > and < dockapps.org >

EDIT: You may be interesting in < torsmo weather >

Posted by doobit on Mar. 29 2006,16:08

Torsmo Weather is cool. Pretty soon there will be no space left for anything but Torsmo on my 640x480 LCD.

Posted by Neb on Mar. 31 2006,13:57

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.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 31 2006,15:22

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

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Posted by Neb on April 05 2006,13:07

I dl the wmweather DSL extension. It installed in a folder off the root of the drive.

Whenever I attempt to build an install with the following command:

./configure && make install

It checks for numerous components I don't have, no gcc,cc,cc,cl, no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH.

This Linux stuff is confusing!!!

Posted by hs7sv on April 06 2006,07:25

You don't need to compile it again. After installing (wmweather+2.9.dsl), you just use Menu --> MyDSL --> WmWeather + or command:-

Code Sample

/usr/bin/wmweather+

Posted by Neb on April 09 2006,00:44

WMweather is lame. I want something with pizzaz, snap, graphics, coolness. Any other suggestions?