Okay... So I guess the Konfabulator Group isn't as open to DesktopX....

As we are to their comments and products...

http://www2.konfabulator.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6165&st=0&p=31875&#entry31875
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Here is a posting I posted on Konfabulator.com's forums.

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Poeple started within hours to bashed Stardock and DesktopX 3.0, but at the same time had mistakes all over the place. We need to help in the battle of the Widgets.

The forum entry was just suppose to be fun and light in nature. Not this big fight at who is better. I simply wanted to show this what Stardock has created and see if they can improve their product. Then I get beheaded. Go figure.

All the stress about Apple possibly making them obsolete on the Mac and now this from Stardock must be getting to them.

Anyway they [the Windows developer] closed my topic and wouldn't even let me respond to their final comment. I now several of us here are DesktopX AND Konfabulator users, myslef included and I love both.

I think we are more open here and value people's options more. What you you think?

Like I said there. "We come to it at last, the great battle of our time... The board is set and the pieces are moving."
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

That's pretty natural though.  People are fiercely loyal to their own program.

Moreover, your post did come across as advocacy and pretty aggressive at that.  I think people here would have responded much the same way if roles were reversed.

That said, Ed's (the developer) boasting was pretty ironic:

Konfabulator offers amazing ease of use and ease of building Widgets that frankly no other similar environment out there can offer. Especially when combined with attention to detail and user-friendliness that many people who develop Windows software could give a rats behind about. They just don't get it.

With our newest release in the pipeline, we'll be continuing with that mantra. Users and Widget authors alike are going to be extremely pleased with what's brewing. New classes of Widgets are going to be possible, and we're very excited about it all.

Stay Tuned.

Apparently "ease of use" to the Konfabulator developers means creating widgets in a text editor and juggling XML and JavaScript manually,then putting it all together, zipping it up, and renaming it to .widget.

By contrast, in DesktopX there's a nice UI for creating content. Konfabulator has no UI at all for creating content.

If someone just wants to USE widgets, then DesktopX 3's $14.95 version lets people run widgets exactly the same as Konfabulator.  Plus DesktopX 3's client version supports objects and desktops which Konfabulator doesn't support at all. And the included widgets in DesktopX 3 are at least as polished and "easy to use" as what comes with Konfabulator.

Realistically, if Konfabulator hadn't had all the media attention and didn't have such high quality widgets made by the developers bundled with it, they'd be forced to explain why someone should pay $24.95 for Konfabulator when Kapsules, which supports .NET, supports more languages, has more features, etc. is free.  Kapsules (www.widgetforge.com) competes with DesktopX too but not nearly as directly as it competes with Konfabulator.