On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Nix wrote:

> 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...)

I see. well, I seldom look at my desktop so I guess this isn't for me 
anyway.

F.

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Felmon Davis

Q:      What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
A:      A stick.