lately i realized that dashboard is pretty useless for me because some of the info i want from widgets like the weather os system stats or the clock from another timezone are things i want to see all the time – not when i hit F12.
It came to my mind that some time ago there was a similar thing to dashboard – oh what was is called – konfabulator? yes, konfabulator is still alive (but bought by yahoo! making it free asfree beer).
Apple started to use a new UI replacing the “old” brushed metal style – you can see it in your Mail or iTunes when you’re using Mac OS X Tiger.
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go into kaa/base and edit setup.py by changing (line 36) this extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) to this #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) or use this diff: 36c36 < extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) — > #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) until now the support for cdrom drives only works on Linux, so i disabled it on OS X. now go to kaa/metadata and edit setup.py: change this ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] and change this ext_modules = [ cdrom ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] ext_modules = [ ] or use this diff: 58c58,59 < ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] > ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] 61c62,63 < ext_modules = [ cdrom ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] > ext_modules = [ ] now go back to kaa/base and install the kaa.base package: $ sudo python setup.py install now go to kaa/metadata and install the kaa.metadata package: $ sudo python setup.py install you may use a different python instance, like /opt/python24/bin/python or something else if you don’t wanna install kaa into the default python on OS X.
go into kaa/base and edit setup.py by changing (line 36) this extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) to this #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) or use this diff: 36c36 < extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) — > #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) until now the support for cdrom drives only works on Linux, so i disabled it on OS X. now go to kaa/metadata and edit setup.py: change this ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] and change this ext_modules = [ cdrom ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] ext_modules = [ ] or use this diff: 58c58,59 < ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] > ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] 61c62,63 < ext_modules = [ cdrom ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] > ext_modules = [ ] now go back to kaa/base and install the kaa.base package: $ sudo python setup.py install now go to kaa/metadata and install the kaa.metadata package: $ sudo python setup.py install you may use a different python instance, like /opt/python24/bin/python or something else if you don’t wanna install kaa into the default python on OS X.