![]() But the relatively randomness of it amidst a set of semi-useful tools, like clocks, battery meters, and app launchers, kinda enhanced its appeal.Īnd not just to people like me, but to cats, the general measure of awesomeness in all things: Like most desktop widgets the KDE bouncing ball was, of itself, largely pointless. ![]() Widgets Were EverywhereĪt the time this widget was bouncing around people’s desktops, desktop widgets in general were the “in thing”.Įvery one seemed to be offering them: Google Desktop Yahoo Widgets, Windows Gadgets, Apple’s Dashboard, plus gDesklets, aDesklets, Screenlets and KDE Plasma widgets on Linux. Sadly in the (admittedly not deep) research of this article I couldn’t find out who created the original widget, nor when it first appeared in KDE and KDE-based Linux distributions.īut I did learn what became of it. “I played around with KDE widgets, and decided to try ‘bouncy ball’, it’s a big red ball that bounce around on your desktop. the problem, and here I am not sure if I should blame myself or the ball, is that i adjusted some settings, so that the ball bounces around at a quite high speed, and…. Get too carried away tweaking the speed and velocity options and you’d end up with a ball you couldn’t catch, as detailed in a forum post of the time: This latter setting was also a danger, though. I’m talking proper calculations, logic and physics must have been crafted to control how the ball bounced, because it reacted to force and height, and you could control its speed. ![]() KDE’s Bouncy Red Ballįor what is essentially just a bit of fluff a lot of effort has to have gone in to creating the bouncy ball widget for KDE. The ball bounces again - see THIS post for more details. ![]()
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