title: Desktop integrated application (desktop widget like)
body: <p>i'm currently playing with the idea writing a desktop-integrated application for my personal system, which should act similar like usual desktop widget engines (screenlets, gdesklets, google gadgets). It should give me a complete overview about different information about my system, from the internet and should finally visualize them on my desktop. It should centralized all my daily necessary information.</p>
  
  <p>The easiest way would be surely to write my own widgets for one of the known desktop widget engines, but i would prefer to write it from the scratch. Therefore i'm currently looking for some implementation hints, how i can build a global view on the desktop that is not decorated with borders, titlebars and something else by the window manager and has no background color. Special transparency X% effects are not necessary, where compiz would be needed.</p>
  
  <p>A good example for that would be conky with additional libcario support for drawing. I would also choose a bigger gui toolkit like GTK+ or QT. Direct Use for the more complex X11 API Interface would be also an option. Preferable languages are C and C++. </p>
  
  <p>I would be glad if someone could share his knowledge if he has already some similar experiences in that field. </p>