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KDE 4 to support Apple Dashboard widgets

KDEKDE developer Zack Rusin has written on his blog that he is "planning to add full OSX Dashboard compatibility layer for Plasma," the next-generation GUI planned for KDE 4. Though "full compatability" might be a bit of a stretch—it's unlikely it will include support for widgets that use Cocoa or AppleScipt code&mdashlthe many widgets that use JavaScript and HTML alone ought to be supported. Rusin's blog offers a peak into some of the other stuff that might end up in KDE 4, which is expected to be released no sooner than the second half of 2006.

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