Konfabulator

Has anyone here checked out Konfabulator (www.konfabulator.com)?. It is 
similar in a few ways to XWT. It uses xml to layout the gui and 
javascript to make it do stuff. It designed for completely different 
uses than XWT though. It is more geared towards little desktop 
"widgets" than remote services. It also runs on OS X only.

The more I think about it the more I like the idea of trying to make 
XWT be able to do something like this. XWT is already significantly 
more powerful in what you can make the gui do. Konfabulator is pretty 
limited (which is probably ok for its intended purpose). For XWT to be 
useful for something like this it would need far more access to the 
local system than it does now. Obviously this is not a desirable 
feature to have in the "web" version of XWT, but I see no reason why 
there couldn't be a "local" and a "web" version. The "local" version 
would be able to run external command, connect to any host, etc, 
basically everything xwar's can't do now. Stuff run from the web would 
still use the web version, only stuff people intentionally download and 
run would be run with the local version.

I just though I'd throw the idea out there and see what people though. 
I think there are currently more important things to get done in XWT 
(like get that native OS X client going :) ), this is probably a ways 
off, but an interesting idea still.

Offtopic: Speaking of that OS X client. I have the boehm-gc working 
very well on os x. Checkout the boehm-gc mailing list for more details. 
Hopefully a stable gcj isn't too far off, then I can finally get to 
work on the OS X client.

-Brian


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