According to Aaron Seigo, KDE 4.0.2 has support for Dashboard Widgets from Mac OS X. Supposedly. He says:

In the Add Widgets dialog the Install New Widgets button is now a menu, letting you choose between downloading from the Internet using GetHotNewStuff and DXS (where what you are about to see is even more automated) or opening a widget from a file. Our test case was the Hello World widget example from Apple.

And it’s supposed to look like this:

This is awesome, and I wholeheartedly support any interoperability between operating systems. I went crazy with excitement when Kopete started supporting Adium message styles. However, my excitement is a little subdued, considering on my just updated KDE 4.0.2 installation, that button doesn’t show up at all, disabled or otherwise:

Something like that severely puzzles me. If there was some unmet dependency, wouldn’t apt warn me? Could something like that be removed from the Debian package maintainers upstream? Where did that button go? :-) No amount of resizing the window could get it to show up. Ah well.

In other news, I’m loving the feature with task manager widgets that automatically resize task buttons when there get to be too many in a row. As usual, the one feature I’ve wanted from KDE since, oh, about version 2.0, was the ability to remove the text of the tasks, so that only the icons show up. To date, only XFCE supports this functionality. I’m sure I filed a bug for it at one point…