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...) -- NULL && (void)