Is it just me, or does superkaramba suck?
All of the superkaramba propaganda talks about how great it is, so I decided
to try it. I install the Debian package, and run the program. The little
bomb appears. So far, so good.
Problem #1: Every time I complete an action-- e.g. trying to open a theme,
then cancelling when I don't find any themes stored locally; or closing the
welcome screen-- superkaramba exits. I have to restart it.
Problem #2: superkaramba comes packaged with exactly zero themes. When I
go to download one, I get a .skz file, which superkaramba doesn't
recognize. So okay, I figure out pretty easily that it's just a stupidly
named zip archive. I _manually_ create a directory and unpack the contents
there. Now superkaramba recognizes the .theme file. superkaramba can't do
this work on its own?
Problem #3: I decide to try liquid weather. It sounds cool, and is the
_very first_ theme listed on the download page. I coax superkaramba to use
it as I described above. But when I do, I get
Call to initWidget failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "liquid_weather.py", line 2432, in initWidget
initTranslation(widget)
File "liquid_weather.py", line 420, in initTranslation
lang = karamba.language(widget)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'language'
So, here's the score so far:
Time spent so far with superkaramba: 20 minutes.
Amount of eye candy appearing on my desktop: zero.
If I persist will I be rewarded, or will I just be throwing good time after
bad? And, does superkaramba suck?
A.
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