Google Open Source has released info about it’s gadgets application for Linux yesterday.
Even though I’m not too fond of polluting my desktop with irrelevant info, I must recognize that most people love eye-candy, so it’s a must-consider target when planning a mass-user application.
Regardless, what pleased me was reading here the following:
You can choose from the two toolkits: GTK or QT.
Ideally, this would be possible to do in any GUI project, but there are some quirks and useful features found in one that you won’t find in another, so developers tend to choose either one (or another, there are many options! - and that’s not always good). Things seems to be improving with the recent release of QGtkStyle, but there are many other GUI toolkits that still look too ugly (tk anyone?).
Anyway, I think it’s worth to check the Google Gadgets for Linux but we can’t forget about the other open source desktop gadgets projects out there that may be more mature and integrated to your desktop of choice (aDesklets, KDE4’s Plasma Widgets, etc) - I wonder how those projects will react.