So without being able to have a look, Plasma is still progressing at an amazing
pace. Last wednesday, before I left to Belgium for
Rock Werchter I mailed Marijn (who
is the student working on Plasma on Small Form Factor (SFF in Ade-language) my N810
so he can look into getting Plasma going on that device. Returning, I see
a blog
of his showing Plasma running on Maemo on the N810. Awesome. I’m looking forward to
trying it and be able improve plasmoids for this formfactor. Being able to see your
own code on a new device is also quite cool, I must say.
more new feature a lot of people wanted to see into Plasma in trunk/ — meaning
this will make it into the upcoming KDE 4.1 release. So now you can move applets on
the panel. Yay! In other Plasma-news, Dong Tiger has been working on support for Google Gadgets
in Plasma, and it’s coming along nicely as you can see in the screenshot. A couple
of things still have to be solved, how to install them in the most intuitive way?
The Google Gadgets are using a QWidget subclass that does rendering and input even
redirection (by mean of Widgets-on-Canvas). So, support for many, many more
widgets is coming up and Plasma seems to be becoming The Shell To Rule Them All. Disclaimer: Support for moving widgets on the panel is going into 4.1.
Support for running Plasma on Maemo will probably not be included with KDE 4.1,
neither will support for Google Gadgets be. (Those disclaimers apparently are
necessary to prevent confusion among those not reading developer blogs carefully
enough.)