Projects/Plasma/Plasmoids

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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

  • purpose

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:kde-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:kde-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/

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

  • 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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kde:kde-workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/trash

Games

Fifteen Puzzle

  • purpose

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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kde:kdeplasma-addons/applets/life/

Graphics

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

  • purpose

Allows you to look up the definitions of a word.

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kde:kdeplasma-addons/applets/dict/

Miscellaneous

Calculator

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A basic but functional calculator.

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kde:kdeplasma-addons/applets/calculator/

KGet

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Monitor your downloads. This applet can show a bar chart, a pie chart and a speed graph.

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  • location
kde:kget/plasma/applet/

SuperKaramba

  • purpose

Integrate the tons of existing Karamba Themes as good as possible into the KDE4 plasma desktop.

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kde: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/


News

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Shows news from various sources. The widget reads RSS feeds and displays them.

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kde:kdeplasma-addons/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:kde-workspace/plasma/generic/applets/batterymonitor/

Battery Time Remaining

  • purpose

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

  • 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

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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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kde:kde-workspace/plasma/generic/applets/system-monitor/

Hardware info

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Show hardware info.

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kde:kde-workspace/plasma/generic/applets/system-monitor/

Lock/Logout

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Lock the screen or log the current user out.

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kde:kde-workspace/plasma/generic/applets/lock_logout/

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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:kde-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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kde:kde-workspace/plasma/generic/applets/system-monitor/

Windows And Tasks

Pager

  • purpose

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

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kde:kde-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:kde-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/