Projects/Plasma/Plasmoids
Known plasmoids
Application Launchers
Kickoff
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Standard application launcher since KDE 4.0. Features include search, recently used applications and files and favorites.
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kde:kde-workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/kickoff/
Application Launcher Menu
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Classic application launcher menu, similar to the one in KDE 3. The same dataset is shared with Kickoff.
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kde:kde-workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/kickoff
Lancelot Launcher
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Lancelot is an application launcher menu designed to provide a place from which all your jobs begin. It provides quick access to applications, places, documents, contacts and system information.
For more info visit the blog of the author Ivan Čukić or Lancelot's home page. You could also be interested in Lancelot feature in commit-digest.
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kde:kdeplasma-addons/applets/lancelot
Astronomy
Luna
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Widget which displays the current moon phase. Access the settings to set it for northern / southern hemisphere.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/luna
Date and Time
Analog Clock
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A simple analog clock.
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/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/analog-clock/
Binary Clock
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Displays the current time using binary.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/binary-clock
Digital Clock
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A standard digital clock.
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/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/digital-clock/
Fuzzy Clock
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This "fuzzy" clock displays time in an approximate, textual form.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/fuzzy-clock
Train Clock
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A train clock where the numbers flip. No longer available.
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no longer available
Environment and Weather
Weather Forecast
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Displays the weather forecast in the area you specify. Data is provided by wetter.com
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/weather
File System
File Watcher
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Watches and displays the content of a file on the desk. In this screenshot, the bash history is being watched.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/fileWatcher
Trash Can
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A trash can applet.
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/playground/base/plasma/desktop/applets/trash
Games
Fifteen Puzzle
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You can play the game fifteen puzzle, including selecting your own custom picture that you are trying to put back together.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/fifteenPuzzle
Life
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This is the Conway's game of life. For more information on the simulation, see the Wikipedia article.
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/playground/base/plasma/applets/life
Graphics
aKademy Group Photo
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Display the conference group photo. No longer available.
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no longer available
Color Picker
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Get the color value of any position on the desktop. You can click on the color to view the RGB code, as well as the history.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/kolourpicker
Comic Strip
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Show webcomics on your desktop. This currently supports a wide variety of web comics which can be installed through KNewStuff.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/comic
Picture Frame
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A picture frame. It can show a single picture or a slideshow of pictures. You can drop an image to show an image, or drop a folder to start a slideshow of the images in the folder.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/frame
Language
Dictionary
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Allows you to look up the definitions of a word.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/dict
Rot13
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A applet to flip your text using Rot13. (more info on rot13). This should be NEVER used for encryption as it is not secure at all.
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no longer available
Mapping
3D Earth Model
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Shows a 3D model of the earth. No longer available.
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no longer available
Miscellaneous
Calculator
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A basic but functional calculator.
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/playground/base/plasma/applets/calculator
KGet
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Monitor your downloads. This applet can show a bar chart, a pie chart and a speed graph. No longer functional on latest versions of KDE without significant fiddling.
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/KDE/kdenetwork/kget/plasma/applet
Moodbar
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Amarok moodbar applet. No longer available.
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no longer available
KMLDonkey
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Monitor down- and upload statistics of your MLDonkey core.
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/extragear/network/kmldonkey/kmlplasma
SuperKaramba
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Integrate the tons of existing Karamba Themes as good as possible into the KDE4 plasma desktop.
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/KDE/kdeutils/superkaramba/plasma
Lancelot Parts
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You can drag and drop one part of Lancelot and the specific part will appear as it's own widget.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/lancelot
Online Services
Commit Log
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Shows commit log for a project. Doesn't seem to be available anymore.
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no longer available
English Breakfast
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This week in KDEThe English Breakfast Network (EBN) is dedicated to the contemplation of tea, KDE API Documentation Validation, User Documentation Validation, Source Code Checking, omphaloskepsis, and star-gazing. [1]
Doesn't seem to be available.
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no longer available
News
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Shows news from various sources. The widget reads RSS feeds and displays them.
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/playground/base/plasma/applets/news
Microblog
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An applet to follow people's microblogs. Supports a variety of APIs, including Identica and Twitter.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/microblog
System Information
Battery Monitor
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Show the current state of the battery. You can click on the battery to see more information such as the estimated discharge time, or modify the display brightness.
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/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/batterymonitor
Battery Time Remaining
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This is a modification of the original battery plasmoid of plasma desktop. It displays the remaining battery time.
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http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Battery+Time+Remaining?content=123767
Battery NG
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This is a modification of the original battery plasmoid of plasma desktop. It allows interpolation between battery states which effectivly provides a continuous bar instead of only 6 fill states.
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http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Battery+NG?content=117820
Hard Disk IO Monitor
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A hard disk usage monitor. You can observe how much disk IO is being made with the graph.
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/playground/base/plasma/applets/system-monitor
Hardware info
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Show hardware info.
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/playground/base/plasma/applets/system-monitor
Lock/Logout
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Lock the screen or log the current user out.
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/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/lock_logout
(note underscore)
Device Notifier
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Shows the recently plugged in devices and notifies the user if a new device is plugged in. You can choose to show storage devices too.
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/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/devicenotifier
System Monitor
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System monitor applet. There are multiple tabs which you can enable, including CPU, network IO and disk IO graphs, temperature, hardware info, etc.
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/playground/base/plasma/applets/system-monitor
Windows And Tasks
Pager
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A pager applet that shows the virtual desktops. Click to switch.
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/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/pager
System Tray
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Displays your system tray.
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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/generic/applets/systemtray
Task Manager
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Shows your open applications. Can be resized to show icons and text, or only icons.
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/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/taskmanager
Window List
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The Window List shows a list of open windows.
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/KDE/kde-workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/window-list