Riding With Robots

Karamba & Superkaramba

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Ride along with the armada of robotic space probes now exploring the Solar System with this simple SuperKaramba theme. It's a Linux implementation of the Riding With Robots Dashboard widget that has been popular on Mac OS X. It brings the latest downlink from RidingWithRobots.org right to your desktop, automatically checking for updates.

Double-clicking the widget will launch Firefox and bring you to the site for more information.

This 0.1 version has only been tested on SUSE Linux 10 in KDE. I'm very open to suggestions for improvement.

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TeeAhr1

13 years ago

Awesome!

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forsakenpariah

14 years ago

Awesome theme!!!



And it works great on Debian testing/Etch too.

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jonson1

14 years ago

bdunford:

You know what would be good:

if you would make theme which shows moon and its position (ful moon, empty moon, etc...) so you could know what position moon stands.
The graphics could be as real moon and its position.
I hope you understood what I mean?

That would be great idea?

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bdunford

14 years ago

I do think it's a good idea. I think I've seen similar widgets for Mac and maybe for gDesklets on GNOME.

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fizzatbeyond

14 years ago

It would be nice if you could configure your browser (I never use firefox, I'm a Konqueror fan myself). Until then I'll just edit the code to make it use my preferred browser.

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studioz

14 years ago

An browser option will be good!

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bdunford

14 years ago

Thanks for your feedback. I'm planning to do that in the next version.

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l1nx

14 years ago

I love this!

And it works great on slack 10.2 ;)

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bdunford

14 years ago

Great. Thanks for letting me know.

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estevam

14 years ago

Works great now. Thanks!

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Rooster

14 years ago

wrks excellent on gentoo / kde 3.5.2

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jollyjoice

14 years ago

sconded on kde 3.5.4 using gentoo 2.6.17-r14 kernel.

Yet to see it update but have only just installed it so will w8 with bated breath...

It would be nice to be able to set the update frequency.

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bdunford

14 years ago

Thanks for using it. Let me know how it goes.

As far as frequency, I update the source image daily (or so). The theme checks for updates every few hours.

I'm hoping to add more functionality in future versions, such as the ability to browse through past images.

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bdunford

14 years ago

Glad to hear it works on Gentoo. Thank you.

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dirkus

14 years ago

Looks and works great on Kubuntu 6.06 LTS

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estevam

14 years ago

Works, but the text is messed.

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bdunford

14 years ago

OK, a server-side fix for this issue is in place now.

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estevam

14 years ago

Works now!

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bdunford

14 years ago

Nevermind; got your e-mail, thanks.

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bdunford

14 years ago

Thanks. How, specifically, is it messed? Thanks again.

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gryphen

14 years ago

works with PCLinuxOS .93, thanks!

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bdunford

14 years ago

Thank you very much for letting me know.

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mdksdc

14 years ago

on FreeBSD + KDE 353 all goes ok!

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bdunford

14 years ago

Thank you so much for lettin me know it works. Great to hear that it works on BSD.

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belzebu87

14 years ago

works corectly with Fedora Core 5 with KDE 3.5.3

good work!

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