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.

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Felmon Davis