Widget Wars: The battle for your desktop begins...

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Longhorn may be over 2 years away but the battle for your desktop has begun. 5 programs offer various reasons for you to extend your Windows desktop with widgets. Most of them have hot keys for you to bring those widgets to the front (or hide them entirely). And all of them are very cool.

Check out this article that walks you through all 5 of them.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks, this is a nice summary of what's out there. It's pretty hard to follow, though, because it seems most of the text has been duplicated in-line. because it seems most of the text has been duplicated in-line.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yea, a database hicup, It should be fixed now (fingers crossed).
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think DX is miles ahead of the rest of them. AveDesk has so few objects, I can count them with my fingers and Samurize is too script-intensive for me, there's no easy way to edit an object unless you edit the script. I haven't tried Kapsules yet...
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Are you sure you have your fingers FULLY crossed? It still gets duped for me, even if I go to the little "try this one instead" link at the top of the article. (and it does it for both links in IE and Firefox, if that's pertinent)
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Actually a good article with no favoritism. great read and my hats of to the writter.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There is one important point, which is only said indirectly: The DesktopX Script Editor sucks. You guys really have to improve it (or write a plugin for Visual Studio/ to use that to write scripts).
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Of the 5, only DesktopX includes a script editor (Samurize kind of does but it's basically just text, no auto complete or syntax error highlighting).
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Maybe I am just too spoiled from my daily work with Visual Studio. A Object Inspector and a visible list of all methods of the current object would be great.