I think konfabulator seems to have a world of potential for cool things, but the default widgets aren't providing it. I think the XML backend combined with the javascript gives it alot of power, admittedly I need to do some more reading into the SDK, but I wish it supported more media types out of the door.

Example, why can't I make an swf movie a widget drop of a hat? Theoretically, I could import it into livemotion, export the actionscript as javascript, and then at least have a head start, but thats a hassel.

I've also not seen any doucmentation on grabbing xml results from a server, or even if it can parse raw basic html, something that should be pretty simple considering the xml parser. Can it even grab results via php? The stock market and weather scripts are grabbing the data somehow, but I'd rather not have to reverse engineer another widget to figure out how they are doing what. but maybe I'll have to. Again though, these are breif look over opinions, I haven't had the chance to look to deep yet.