I don't know if anyone here knows how to make a Konfabulator widget, but it would be cool to have a widget that displays on your desktop who is currently online in Vendetta. Other widgets may include an alarm that tells you when your flag has been captured, or one that posts player and nation rankings live.

For those who have no clue wtf I'm talking about, check out www.konfabulator.com. It's a nifty program which uses a javascript runtime engine that lets you have these things called widgets on your desktop, which allows you to do basically anything from CPU monitoring to looking up news headlines at your favorite site.

i'm all for it.

I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT!!!!!

Hey, good idea! I'm a web designer so konfabulator widgets are pretty easy for me (kind of XML and JavaScriptish), I'll see what I can come up with this weekend. What are some more feature ideas, stuff that can be grepped straight from the website will be easiest of course (like stats and active players).

Nothing complex really. The one I'd love to have the most is the list of online players that update automatically. I don't think rankings change quickly enough to really be of any interest. Heck, I don't think too many people actually care about ranking anymore. The flag capping alarm would also be nice, though I'm not sure how you'd implement it--If you know how more power to ya!

=)

PS: Also, see if you can rip the design straight off of the website for consistency. Extra bonus points will be awarded for transparency!

Arolte this is the best idea you've ever had.

HERE HERE! A TOAST, TO AROLTE!

Don't worry, I'm working on it ... I have a new baby here, so be patient, done by end of next weekend I think ...

You know, this could probably work for Linux too with a bit of tweaking. Hoax, would you mind if I try to modify whatever you come up with to make it work for linux?

Linux has a program similar to Konfabulator called desktop apps or Gnudesktop or something like that. It's almost identical code so you can probably rip it straight off.

I forgot how much fun 'regular expresions' are. Maybe in the future guild will offer an XML version of the stats and whatnots...

OK, I'll never have time to do this, but if I do, I'll be sure and post a link to it here.

Awww, oh wells.
/me holds breath that Hoax gets time.


/me passes out.

Magus: You're probably thinking of either gdesklets or gkrellm. Neither of their applet codes are anything like konfabulator. Sorry, but true.

I'll put some work into this - I'm thinking of writing a PHP script to parse Guild's HTML page, then output as an XML file, then use Konfab to read it. If I can get it going well enough, maybe Guild would be nice enough to run the script on _their_ servers, and not mine...

I'll let you know in the next coupla days.