On 24 Jan 2013, Felmon Davis told this:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Werner Joss wrote:
>
>> 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'.

That would be because they're not tied to a system tray. They can (and
do) live on the desktop background, too. (Where, uh, they are normally
covered by other windows...)

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