Tale of a little pixel

Notifications, let the redesign begin

So, it seems it's that time of the year again... the plasmoid used in KDE Plasma Desktop to display notifications and the progress of transfer jobs started to really show its age, due to some bad limitations in the old QGraphicsview code to handle complex layouts, so it appeared quite buggy and not so smooth to use. Yes, I'm aware that sometimes it started to dance resizing itself several times in a row, and there wasn't much to be done on that regard... Until now :D

Tags: active desktop kde kde4 mobile plasma

Sent from mart on 20/09/2012 at 14:02:05 — comments: 35 — Digg it

Plasma QML documentation

Just a brief heads up. As you know, from now on the recomended way to write plasmoids will be using QML only, and using the new components api for common widgets such as buttons, sliders etc.

Tags: active desktop documentation kde kde4 linux plasma

Sent from mart on 18/01/2012 at 4:07:07 — comments: 4 — Digg it

Brand new Widgets explorer

The rewamp of the KDE Plasma Desktop is continuing: in the 4.8 release it got a completely new QML based device notifier (already quite improved for 4.9), now a new redesign has landed in master, scheduled for the 4.9 release of KDE Plasma Desktop.

Tags: desktop kde kde4 linux plasma qml

Sent from mart on 12/01/2012 at 15:37:55 — comments: 33 — Digg it

Little big cleaning details

Disclaimer: this entry won't talk about a certain thing happened those days, and I won't in future entries as well, until there is actually something to talk about.

Tags: cleaning desktop kde kde4 linux plasma

Sent from mart on 13/02/2011 at 7:18:50 — comments: 10 — Digg it

Separed at birth

Here are two screenshots of Microblog plasmoids. There are two nice novelties that can be noted here (due respectively to KDE Plasma Workpace 4.6 and 4.7) are the support of "reply to message id" in the twitter API, so in Identica conversations will appear correctly threaded (sadly there is still no way to retrieve that threading information from the API) and the support for marking messages as favorites, that will appear in 4.7

Tags: desktop kde kde4 linux plasma qml

Sent from mart on 25/01/2011 at 8:35:07 — comments: 10 — Digg it

Good old habits: notifications again

Activities

We didn't put or effort only in the mobile environment or the new declarative "way of doing plasmoids", but the general polish of the traditional desktop shell, the "most immediate need" for users is quite high on our priority list too.

Sent from mart on 10/11/2010 at 5:31:33 — comments: 11 — Digg it

A Declaration of Plasma Love

Declarative RSS reader The image on the left is a new (example) plasmoid that marks an important change... this is going to be a quite massive blog post, with pretty technical details about what I think is going to be a feature of an higly important strategic relevance on the road towards Plasma as a mature and powerful platform.