Ok, I'm a hacker, let's see whether we can fix that!
The Yahoo Widget consists of a couple of HTML, image and JavaScript files, packed into a proprietary format. Finding out the URL queried by widget to retrieve the information was no problem and the returned data are in an easy to parse format. So the rest of the work was to assemble a Plasmoid which makes use of these 'webservice'. Two days later (had to buy some xmas presents in the meantime ;)) there is a working version available:
You can see two applets which show the departure time for two different stops.Of course this Plasmoid is only useful for all KDE users living in Dresden (maybe 10? ;)) so I'll make the code available on my private website only, or provide it by KNewStuff later.
Update: You can find the sources and the compile instructions now under http://wgess16.dyndns.org/~tobias/kde/plasma_dvb/index.html
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a similar system in Kiev underground uses freebsd, so we sometimes see freebsd console with init and error messages (mounting problems, etc)
oww, cool!
I sooo want that for the oslo busses :)
i want this for Munich !!!!
i want this for Giessen :)
Thanks goodness I am living in Dresden (Stiesen) and using KDE! So where's the code?
I thought Plasma was going to support running third party widgets, such as Apple Dashboard and Yahoo! (Konfabulator) widgets. I haven't seen any screenshots showing that though. Is that a goal for KDE 4.1 maybe?
OSX widgets require WebKit. Since it's not going to be in until Qt 4.4, you'll probably have to wait till KDE 4.1 or so.
Ohhhh!!! So pity that I'm not living anymore in Dresden. That's the plasmoid I would have loved to have last year!!
Frohe Weinachten aus einem Ex-Dresdner
It would be useful to create a standard datasource/format that developers could create backends for to work with other cities. And then people could create frontends to present the data in fancy ways.
One could properly use mobile.bahn.de to query German bus/tram stops and train stations.
I'll clean up the code a bit and release it after xmas on my website (url will be added to the article).
One problem we were faced with is, that the DVB didn't offered such a webservice for a long time. Now that it exists it was easy to create a Plasmoid. So ask your local public transport provider in Kiev, Oslo, Munich or Giessen to provide such a webservice and we can try to come up with a unified engine and applet.
the sourcecode link doesn't work
this is in opensuse community repository, and it is, for me, the most annoying misuse of name ever! F#%K! because DVB is actually a shortcut for digital video broadband, yet, this is as you alone said hardly useable except of the 10 KDE users somewhere for super-cool hype which can make all my analog clock applets rotate, but only if I buy top-notch nVidia card and 4core cpu.
and by the way its actually quite ugly.
thats it, finally! after a year of going through the community repository and trying to ignore this totally useless thing.. no offense, but I worked in support and its the worst kind of itch which you cannot scratch, and I FINALLY can forget about this!
keep up with the good work! :)
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