Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013, 14:04:01 schrieb Timothy Pearson:
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> > 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