[rhythmicmoose]

Konfabulator 1.7 has been released, featuring "Konsposé" (Exposé for your widgets).

Head on over to www.konfabulator.com to check it out.

[afphreak01]

nice, konspose looks interesting... and unicode is a feature thats been needed for a while

[OwlBoy]

Neat.

I hope some day they include Cookie support...

Lots of neat things could be done with it.

-Owl

[rhythmicmoose]

Konsposé is quite slick, with a tan textured gear background to distinguish it from Exposé. I just wish you could remap the key. My 12" PowerBook has a free F12 key since the eject key is separate, so all of my Exposé keys are shifted one to the right. So now I've got a bum functionless F9 key in the middle of my window management keys. I'm sure this will be fixed soon.

I haven't bought the program yet, but for the last few days I've been using it with the nag box in my way. The only features I'd really like to see added would be to be able to change the Konsposé key and a "lock" preference for each widget, so I could have, say, the iTunes Remote floating, but not have it move when I try to drag it. I'm extremely anal about my window sizes and positions, so a lock preference would be a nice selling point for me. If they added that, I'd register in a second.

[SwarmyCurve]

The design for the Konspose backing is rather... hideous.

Why oh why is it textured brown? This isn't the wild wild west, it's OS X. I would think a transparent black would be more appropriate.

Oh well.

[afphreak01]

Originally posted by SwarmyCurve:
The design for the Konspose backing is rather... hideous.

Why oh why is it textured brown? This isn't the wild wild west, it's OS X. I would think a transparent black would be more appropriate.

Oh well.

you can mod that, its a transparent png in the app bundle i've already modded mine to 75% opaque black looks pretty now

edit: BackdropGears.png and BackdropTile.png are the files to edit, pretty straight forward really

[afphreak01]

Originally posted by rhythmicmoose:
Konsposé is quite slick, with a tan textured gear background to distinguish it from Exposé. I just wish you could remap the key. My 12" PowerBook has a free F12 key since the eject key is separate, so all of my Exposé keys are shifted one to the right. So now I've got a bum functionless F9 key in the middle of my window management keys. I'm sure this will be fixed soon.

I haven't bought the program yet, but for the last few days I've been using it with the nag box in my way. The only features I'd really like to see added would be to be able to change the Konsposé key and a "lock" preference for each widget, so I could have, say, the iTunes Remote floating, but not have it move when I try to drag it. I'm extremely anal about my window sizes and positions, so a lock preference would be a nice selling point for me. If they added that, I'd register in a second.

i did a little bit of digging on the K forum and found this link :

Konsposé


Konsposé provides an easy way to get a "heads up display" of your running Widgets by bringing them to the foreground and allowing you to interact with them. When Konsposé is activated (by default with the F8 key) you can move Widgets around and click on them even if they are Desktop or Floating Widgets. To return to what you were doing, click on the Konsposé backdrop or press the exit key (by default Escape).

On Mac OS X 10.3 and above the default hotkey to activate Konsposé is F8 (one to the left of the Exposé keys) and the default key to exit the mode is Escape (or just click on the Konsposé backdrop). On Mac OS X 10.2 the default keys are Shift+F8 and Shift+Escape because hotkeys must have modifiers on that version of the operating system.

To change the keys there are a couple of hidden preferences (these will be settable in Konfabulator in an upcoming release) called organizerKey and organizerExitKey. They can be set like so:
defaults write com.konfabulator organizerKey -string "Command+F1"
defaults write com.konfabulator organizerExitKey -string "Shift+F1"
Restart Konfabulator to have these changes take effect.

so that should take care of modding konspose

[Randman]

Originally posted by afphreak01:
you can mod that, its a transparent png in the app bundle i've already modded mine to 75% opaque black looks pretty now

edit: BackdropGears.png and BackdropTile.png are the files to edit, pretty straight forward really

Where are the files? Can't find them to mod them. Thanks.


Also, does anyone know about the new language selection? My temperature text is now showing Japanese or Chinese instead of F.

[afphreak01]

right click on konfabulator in finder, and click "show contents" and they are in the "resources" folder theres also images for the "faux menu" in there if you want to change those to match your theme, and theres some "close" images but i havent figured out where they show up yet...

[SwarmyCurve]

Originally posted by afphreak01:
right click on konfabulator in finder, and click "show contents" and they are in the "resources" folder theres also images for the "faux menu" in there if you want to change those to match your theme, and theres some "close" images but i havent figured out where they show up yet...

Phew!

Good call - no more brown for me.

thanks.

[Randman]

Ok. Found them. Did you change it with Photoshop? Did you just do a fill? Sorry to be so dense. The translucent black sounds nice.

And, still having trouble with temperature text. I trashed the language packs from Konfab from the app pack and even re-ran DeLocalizer but I'm still getting the Japanese symbol.

[astral]

Originally posted by rhythmicmoose:
The only features I'd really like to see added would be to be able to change the Konsposé key and a "lock" preference for each widget, so I could have, say, the iTunes Remote floating, but not have it move when I try to drag it.

You have been able to for quite some time now. Open a widget's prefs and change it to "Desktop" from the dropdown menu.

[rhythmicmoose]

Originally posted by astral:
You have been able to for quite some time now. Open a widget's prefs and change it to "Desktop" from the dropdown menu.

I know that, but then you can't interact with it.

[Revolution6000]

Just ordered mine just now, think I'll mod the Konspose background just now. Thanks for the tip

[afphreak01]

Originally posted by Randman:
Ok. Found them. Did you change it with Photoshop? Did you just do a fill? Sorry to be so dense. The translucent black sounds nice.

And, still having trouble with temperature text. I trashed the language packs from Konfab from the app pack and even re-ran DeLocalizer but I'm still getting the Japanese symbol.

what widget are you having problems with?

[tiredraven]

I'm also having the same problem with Temperature Text. I tried looking at the code and the .plist file (preference file), but I didn't see anything that looked like it would cause that problem, but then again I know very little about programming.

I have the author's email address and I will email him later today. He's been quite helpful in troubleshooting his widgets in the past. I will post any solutions he sends me here.