On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Werner Joss wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013, 14:04:01 schrieb Timothy Pearson: >> <snip> >> >>> can someone explain in very brief terms what the use of 'plasmoids' >>> is? >> >> AFAIK if you remember SuperKaramba, Plasmoids are pretty much the same >> concept with a completely different implementation. >> >> Any KDE4 users, please correct me if I am wrong. :-) > > hm, plasmoids, well... > they are just litte apps which live in the system tray, like the so called > mini-applications (kicker-applets) from kde 3.x/TDE. > they seem to be easier to develop than full-fledged c++ programs due to the use > of QML/javascript as their base. > > Werner ok, I'll have to boot up my kde4 (or reinstall it); I didn't at the time have a sense that the plasmoids were tied to a 'system-tray' (I take your word for this!) or maybe I'm confusing them with 'activities'. thanks. F. -- Felmon Davis