Conky v Rainmeter for Desktop coolness

[Ascenti0n]

I've just recently installed Conky and have it running on my desktop, and I thought it was cool, until I read this post on Lifehacker.

Someone has used as one example of his dektop config, a Halo 3 wallpaper, but the really neat bit is that he is able to interact with various elements of the wallpaper image.

I don't know anything about Rainmeter other than it's a Google app and that it probably runs on Windows only.

Wouldn't it be cool to have something like this on Linux? Check out the links below.

http://lifehacker.com/5297193/the-halo-3-hud-desktop

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rykennedyan/3642112110/in/photostream/

[ohbuntu]

Err.. Rainmeter is NOT an app by Google, if that's what you meant. In fact, it's just another abandonware that happens to have a very active community of skinners and end users. The app was actually abandoned by its creator until a few months ago when a couple of new hands joined on-board to restart development.

[Ascenti0n]

yes, maybe, but have you seen this guys desktop? it's awesome.

[billgoldberg]

yes, maybe, but have you seen this guys desktop? it's awesome.

I think it looked bad.

[penoo]

yeah I agree with billgoldberg. However, the program itself is very good. I must admit I havent used conky much though.
Its very user friendly and very easy to mod. The is a lot of skins for it that sometimes come with totaly new functions and mostly they look very nice.
Conky on the other hand is a more powerful tool. I havent seen any mail "widget" or "now playing" function available in raimeter. And I guess I still havent explored all of conkys posibilities.


I think what confused Ascenti0n is that rainmeter is downloaded from google code.

Link is my vista desktop with minimal rainmeter configs.
http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs49/f/2009/151/5/2/here_is_my_desktop_by_Penoo.jpg
http://penoo.deviantart.com/art/here-is-my-desktop-124376388