Projects/Plasma/Plasmoids

Known plasmoids

Application Launchers

Kickoff

• purpose

Standard application launcher since KDE 4.0. Features include search, recently used applications and files and favorites.

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• location

/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/kickoff/

Application Launcher Menu

• purpose

Classic application launcher menu, similar to the one in KDE 3. The same dataset is shared with Kickoff.

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/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/kickoff/simpleapplet

Lancelot Launcher

• purpose

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

• purpose

Widget which displays the current moon phase. Access the settings to set it for northern / southern hemisphere.

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/playground/base/plasma/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

• purpose

A train clock where the numbers flip. No longer available.

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/playground/base/plasma/applets/train-clock

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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File System

File Watcher

• purpose

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

• purpose

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

• purpose

Display the conference group photo. No longer available.

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/playground/base/plasma/applets/groupphoto

Color Picker

• purpose

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

• purpose

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

• purpose

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

• purpose

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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/playground/base/plasma/applets/rot13

Mapping

3D Earth Model

• purpose

Shows a 3D model of the earth. No longer available.

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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/bluemarble

Miscellaneous

Calculator

• purpose

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

• purpose

Amarok moodbar applet. No longer available.

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/playground/base/plasma/applets/moodbar

KMLDonkey

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Monitor down- and upload statistics of your MLDonkey core.

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/extragear/network/kmldonkey/kmlplasma

SuperKaramba

• purpose

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

• purpose

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

• purpose

Shows commit log for a project. Doesn't seem to be available anymore.

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/playground/base/plasma/applets/cia.vc

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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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/ebn

News

• purpose

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/twitter

System Information

Battery Monitor

• purpose

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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• location

/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/battery

Battery Time Remaining

• purpose

This is a modification of the original battery plasmoid of plasma desktop. It displays the remaining battery time.

• location

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Battery+Time+Remaining?content=123767

Battery NG

• puropse

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

• purpose

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

• purpose

Show hardware info.

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/playground/base/plasma/applets/system-monitor

Lock/Logout

• purpose

Lock the screen or log the current user out.

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/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/lock_logout

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

• purpose

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

• purpose

A pager applet that shows the virtual desktops. Click to switch.

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/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/pager

System Tray

• purpose

Displays your system tray.

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/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/generic/applets/systemtray

Task Manager

• purpose

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/tasks

Window List

• purpose

The WIndow List shows a list of open windows.

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/KDE/kde-workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/window-list