Their server is about to implode, but it’s time to try out Konfabulator for Windows. Shareware, at $25, it’ll have trouble, but nothing’s impossible: Konfabulator has the advantage, over all its clones, of being designed for the final user. A nice slideshow explains how it works when you first run it; the menus are clean; the option windows are standardized; you only have to double-click a widget and it’s added — and, of course, there’s Konsposé. On the other side of the fence, all the free clones are heavy, poorly designed, sometimes even made for programmers who want to define their desktop layout by editing a text file (makes me laugh when people talk about Samurize as a viable competitor). What Konfabulator brings over from the Mac world isn’t just prettier widgets: it’s a well-designed interface, and it makes the hell of a difference.
Of course, I doubt this difference is worth $25 to most people. But, who knows — the market base is so much larger than on Macs, it may be workable.
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garoo, 7 years ago:
C'est vrai. Je suppose que je suis parti du principe que ceux que ça pouvaient intéresser devaient déjà savoir ce que c'est. Je crois que je fais souvent ça, sur mon blog, c'est mon ton :o)
K (et son nouveau mac), 7 years ago:
Honnêtement, Konfabulator ne fournit pas de widgets vraiment utiles...
Alors autant en freeware ça vaut le coup, autant à 25 $...
Meso, 7 years ago:
Tombé amoureux de l'inutilité totale de la chose !
Mais pour l'instant tout fonctionne parfaitement bien, c'est après qu'arrive un petit message disant que pour continuer il faut payer ?
garoo, 7 years ago:
Je sais pas, et je crois que le site ne le dit pas non plus. Je suppose qu'après quelques jours il commencera à réclamer :)
Meso, 7 years ago:
Juste le temps de plus pouvoir s'en passer, en fait.
*S'éclate avec Rock-Paper-Scissors*
garoo, 7 years ago:
Moi c'est le CPU monitor qui s'allume en rouge qui me manquera. C'est tout simple et pas productif, mais c'est joli :)
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