widgets?

[claydoh at claydoh.com]

> This probably sounds silly, but what the heck are widgets?  I believe
> they are something that KDE4 invented.  What's the difference between
> widgets and icons?  Or are widgets the icons seen in the system tray?
> Or what?
>
> --doug
> --
> Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides.
>   --A.M. Greeley
>
An icon is just an image that may be a link to a program.

Widgets are basically small applets, but everything on a KDE4 desktop is a
widget, from the folder view widget to the panel and task and down to
desktop icons. Think of a widget as a container holding something, whether
it is an icon, or the system tray in the panel.

KDE4 by no means invented widgets - Superkaramba in KDE3, gnome can have
them, and I hear that Windows 7 and Mac have them as well.

Some user-written wiki pages that may help:
http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma
http://userbase.kde.org/KWin


Clay