KDE to support Dashboard Widgets

Zack Rusin, one of the lead devs on KDE, says that KDE is going to support Dashboard Widgets. I haven't decided if I like the idea or not.

I find the Dashboard on my various Macs [1] to perform too slowly for my tastes. I have it disabled on two of my three Macs because of this. I have it enabled on the third Mac, which is also the slowest of the lot, because I want so very badly to like Dashboard. It's a great application (although I think that Apple missed the most obvious thing for its interaction style), it's a handy application. But when there's a noticeable lag between opening it up and being able to interact with any given Widget, it loses its usefulness. I want to use these Widgets, but for the most part, I've found that it's faster to use some other application or website to accomplish the same task.

Part of it is that I'm not necessarily a fan of KDE. I'm a GNOME girl myself. But that's more of a personal preference (or holy war, depending your feelings on the subject), so I suppose that I can skip this for the time being.

The question is: what happens next? Some Widgets include Cocoa, which means that they won't work with KDE; it seems pretty likely that the opposite will eventually happen, too. Or perhaps others will pick up on it, and the Dashboard will become a standard unto itself -- which doesn't necessarily mean that the compatibility issues will go away, but more people creating Widgets is probably a good thing, even if it means that there's eventually Vista-only Widgets out there.

[1] The Macs of my life: MS gave me a 1.5GHz G4 Powerbook. I bought a Mac mini late yast year, it's also a 1.5 GHz G4. I've still got my old Powerbook to serve as my personal machine, it's the last of the TiBooks: a 1 GHz G4.