Opera Widgets are now independent.
Norwegians released widgets at will. Now widgets can work as independent applications, regardless of the browser: now you can close the Opera, and the widgets will continue to work. For me personally, this was the only thing that kept them from being used.But the truth is just a test build, and not everything is fine in the Norwegian kingdom :)
The advantages of this solution in addition to separation from the browser is a closer integration with the operating system. For example, Linux users will finally see (semi-) transparency in widgets.
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In order to take advantage of these pleasures of life, you need to install this test build:In it, you will find the absence of the “Widgets” menu item, which from my point of view is a big minus, since It’s not yet possible to manage widgets fully, and having such a menu in the browser would be great. Well, okay, do not forget - this is just a test build.
After that, open the catalog of opera widgets . You can put any widget that interests you by clicking the Launch button. After that, the installation manager will start, in the extended properties of which you can detect (in Linux) the ability to create an installation .deb package for this widget, which looks like a very cool feature.
But here again, a flaw - the widget will not start, although we pressed the Launch button, but it will only be established. To launch a widget - look for it in the system menu of applications. In the same place, in the menu there was a new widget - Widget Manager. With it, you can remove widgets, but what is strange - you can not start. We'll write it down on the damp release.
The first thing I did was to put the Yandex weather widget to enjoy all the charm of translucency, but was severely broken off, because The widget refused to install.
The widget engines have recently spawned a lot, only the question arises - will another such engine be in demand?
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/72656/
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