Conky Widget Collection

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So this is more of an idea, semi-random, but also not purely random.

Some time ago I proposed that conky becomes a bit more GUI-like; my focus was on clickable buttons,
e. g. to then run a local script or so. And perhaps also an input-widget-like thing for user input.

I then realised that buttons were already possible back then, but required lua, if I recall correctly.

Now, I actually think it may be nice to extend conky with a set of default "widgets".

Conky already has kind of widgets, e. g. those applets we can use in our conkyrc file, to show specific
things, such as some graphical bar for how much space is occupied by the local harddiscs, and a lot
more functionality. One problem here is that this is often spread over many different conkyrc files;
it may be useful to group this, and make available by default a rich set of things + screenshot gallery,
and with widget-like functionality too, as an option, where it makes sense. I'd even think it may be
useful to extend this option, say, drop-down choose action widgets and what not. (This may have to
be disabled or enabled globally, some users may not need this, so perhaps the default should always
be disabled, and a single invocation in the conky can enable this then.)

Which widgets should be included? I have no idea actually. Initially perhaps it should be kept simple
and to focus on what 80% of the users or new users may find useful or potentially useful.

The idea here is to try to make conky a bit more generic and more useful too. Conky always had the
fancy look and feel people like, but I think it may also be nice to have conky be a bit more GUI-like.
Not 100% a GUI in the traditional sense, but just using components of a GUI that may make sense
(though it would also be fun to have conky as a WM on linux, but this is probably a step too far -
my focus here, with the idea, is on what may make conky useful.)

And perhaps also as a web-application. Anyway, this is just an idea. I am not meaning this that the
main author should implement it, but more this as an idea to query what people feel about it,
whether they'd support this and so forth. (If others already suggested this then my apologies,
I looked only at the most recent discussions.)