Tale of a little pixel

Dropping in, dropping out

I love when an idea starts to taking form and suddenly starts to make sense in an unexpected way... some days ago Aaron blogged about dropping remote contents inside Plasma: now is possible to drop in several types of content, even from the network and the proper plasmoid capable of doing a little preview of that content will pop up, like the picture frame for an image or the web browser for an html page.

The idea of Plasma as a canvas for some kind of smart bookmarks with live preview of your content and work is taking shape, now what was the logical step was to ask.. what about the other way around?

We now have a quite simple way in the plasma api to associate an application, or an url (with the proper application detected from the mime type) to a Plasma widget. A new button will appear in the applet handle (and a new entry in the context menu) and that application will be launched. The idea is to have a full view of what you have in the widget, as a tiny preview.

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Ooo0hh!

I love these "little things" that are just so functional and great that you wonder why no one ever thought of it before and once you're used to having the feature you can't imagine how you lived without it. :P

Sent from Eruaran (Anonimous) on 25/09/2009 at 13:24:56

great

Fantastic, simply fantastic.

(na figata per intenderci :D )

giuseppe

Sent from gp (Anonimous) on 19/09/2009 at 12:26:47

Re: One little thing.

@ Saleel Velankar: very good point!

Could that be integrated in the preview somehow?

Sent from Neil (Anonimous) on 19/09/2009 at 10:22:51

wow

This is fantastic. So simple, yet so useful!

Sent from ljubomir (Anonimous) on 19/09/2009 at 0:05:50

Wow

Wow! (again:P)

Sent from KDE user (Anonimous) on 19/09/2009 at 0:01:48

Re: What

@Saleel: yes, will be in 4.4 and it's accessible also as a context menu entry

Sent from Marco Martin (mart) on 18/09/2009 at 20:31:09

One little thing.

I should have added this to original comment, but I forgot. The applet handle only really appears if plasma is unlocked. could there be some other way to do this?

Sent from Saleel Velankar (Anonimous) on 18/09/2009 at 20:28:52

What. the.

This is brilliant! ridiculously brilliant, imagine if you could have the opera speed dial right on desktop, but a lot more functional. Will this appear in 4.4 do you think?

Sent from Saleel Velankar (Anonimous) on 18/09/2009 at 20:25:54