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Introduction

If you like CSS, Homer Simpson, and KDE (3), then this post is for you.
Román Cortés drew Homer Simpson in CSS, which is a pretty impressive feat. If you want to see how it’s made, you can show the animation of Homer Simpson being constructed. If you don’t have it already, you’ll need the core fonts of Windows.
Now, where does the KDE part come in? Well, if you’re like me, you might want to embed the CSS-drawn Homer Simpson into your KDE 3 desktop. You could take a screenshot of the page, crop out non-Homer stuff, and then embed that into your desktop, but that reduces the fun of drawing Homer Simpson in CSS.
Preparation

Now, to avoid having to load all the other stuff on the blog post, you could create an HTML file containing only Homer SImpson. I have such a file prepared for you. You can either download the file or just have kwebdesktop read it off my server.

Now, if you are embedding CSS Homer Simpson, I can tell you that (at the time of this writing) that the Homer Simpson doesn’t render perfectly, but you can still see that it’s Homer Simpson. If you’re embedding some other CSS drawing, you’ll have to make sure that it renders okay in Konqueror first.

The simple process

1) Right-click on your desktop and click on “Configure desktop…”

2) Click the “Advanced Options” button in the configure dialog.

3) In the new dialog box that pops up, click “Use the following program for drawing the background:” and click on “kwebdesktop”. If it doesn’t appear in there, install it. It should have come with KDE.

4) Click the “Modify…” button to set the URL that will be displayed on the desktop. Set your URL and click “OK”

5) You’ll be back at the desktop configuration dialog. Click “No picture” to make your webpage appear. Click “OK” to save your changes.

If everything went well, you now have CSS Homer Simpson or whatever other webpage you wanted on your KDE desktop. You can do something similar in Windows, but then you get Internet Explorer embedded in your desktop.