Introducing the Desktop Gadgets Gallery

Nice.   You've got a PM.

PS: Your second link goes to the DX product page, not the gallery.

Thanks ID and Roman. It's nice to have the separation.

Awesome!! great news ID

Very exciting and awesome news, but how do we get there, the second link doesn't take you to the pot of gold Ha Ha Ha Ha please redirect us ID

Link fixed.

what ever happened to the gadget website? There were a lot of free and 'master' type gadgets there.

Thst server crashed hard last year and never recovered.  I don't remember more than 15 or so gadgets though.

I plan on going thru all my "older" widgets and remaking them into Gadgets. I also plan on making sure they all work in Vista (since thats what im using now). I want to re-do HC Pro to work in Vista and to see if i can clean up some of its 3000+ lines of code. (Dont wait on that one.. it will take some time) I love that we have this Gallery, thanks to all those who helped get it in place.

Hi Roman...too cool man.

I've converted nearly 20 thing's so far hehe

Now if we only had a DX software update, that would make my day.

Will there be other categories in this gallery besides General?

I was wondering that myself sViz

as far as it'll grow up i guess

can we PLEASE keep this gallery with specific gadgets, and not a thousand clocks/weather gadgets.. it would be so nice to make this just things that are unique.. and not just another widget

too late..

Cool!

My fault, though I have made a few unique thing's.

I'm certainly contributing.

its ok, its just one of my biggest problem with DX's galleries, they are full of the exact same clock/cal/weather widget just skinned different over and over and over, and the truly unique things get lost in all the rest. Its the MAIN reason i have been pushing SD to work on Skin Studio to have a way to skin a clock/cal/weather gadget that the skinner could include in their skin and it would automatically change the gadget when it loads, but skin studio would need a way to add this to the wb. As of right now there is no way to do that. Its just something that bugs me because some of the things i have made have upwards of 3000 lines of code, and months of work involved, and i upload it, and within a day its on page 6 because someone uploaded 12 versions of the same clock. I have no problems with the clock, but make it a SKIN pack, where you could have all those individual skins in one clock with just a simple way to change it. There are NUMEROUS ways to do this, and there are a bunch of these in the gallery, as well as the tutorial that i made. Anyway..

I'm considering making the Desktop Gadgets gallery a more heavily moderated gallery. 

It's nice to see a member of the community be able to express theirselves so well.  Way to go RomanDA.

Gadets, as he points out so very well should be unique items that perform a function.  They are skinned, but they are not just a reskinned item. 

 

 

Thnaks Philly,  

I agree, it was the whole point of making a new gallery.  A place where things that really stand out should go, not just a duplicate of things from the widgets gal.

Totally agree with you David.

I hope gadget gallery will be better than widget or object gallery.

And would be nice to "heavily moderated" . I'm found there some unique items. Way to go!

I agree that the gadget gallery is an opportunity to show off more complex apps.  I'd like to see it more closely moderated too.