Together, Kicker, KDesktop and SuperKaramba build the graphical shell of the K Desktop Environment 3.

They then have the option of adding a Python, Ruby or JavaScript script to make the widget interactive.

[2] It gained a lot of popularity when it was uploaded to KDE-Look[3] and people began writing themes for it.

Adam kept the project alive, added new features and applied patches from other developers until around April 2005.

At that point, a group of developers who wanted to move SuperKaramba even further pushed to get it included in a KDE major release.