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Windows Desktop Gadgets (called Windows Sidebar in Windows Vista) is a discontinued widget engine for Microsoft Gadgets. Desktop Gadgets have been replaced by Windows 10 Taskbar Widgets. It was introduced with Windows Vista, in which it features a sidebar anchored to the side of the desktop. Its widgets can perform various tasks, such as ...
Web gadgets – run on a web site, such as Bing.com or Spaces.; Sidebar gadgets – run on the desktop or be docked onto, run on the Windows Sidebar.; SideShow gadgets – run on auxiliary external displays, such as on the outside of a laptop or even on an LCD panel in a keyboard, and potentially mobile phones and other devices.
Serious Samurize (or simply Samurize) is a freeware system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Microsoft Windows. [1] [2] The core of Samurize is the desktop client that displays PC statistics (similar to a widget or gadget) anywhere on the screen. There is also a taskbar client, a clock client, a server, and a screensaver.
Few desktop gadgets pack more into such a tiny space as Amazon’s latest 4th-generation Echo. It’s a premium speaker, web-connected toy, and voice-controlled smart home hub that fits neatly on ...
Rainmeter is a free and open-source desktop customization utility for Windows released under the GNU GPL v2 license. It allows users to create and display user-generated customizable desktop widgets or applets called "skins" that display information. [3] [4] Ready to use collections of skins can be downloaded and installed in packages known as ...
GTK, open source , primarily for the X Window System, ported to and emulated under other platforms; used in the GNOME, Rox, LXDE and Xfce desktop environments. The Windows port has support for native widgets. IUP, open source , a minimalist GUI toolkit in ANSI C for Windows, UNIX and Linux.
Windows Vista was released to manufacturing on November 8, 2006 and includes two SideShow gadgets, one for Windows Mail and one for Windows Media Player. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Microsoft Office 2007 , released to manufacturing on the same day as Windows Vista, included an Outlook 2007 calendar gadget for SideShow.
DesktopX was a shareware desktop enhancement program that allowed users to build their own custom desktops. Amongst its features was a complete widget engine for Windows as well as a desktop object system. User creations could be exported as .desktop files or as widgets. The program was distributed with Object Desktop as well as stand-alone.