Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Listmates,

        Out of all the plasmoids that kde has, there are a couple that are 
really
useful. One that I haven't ever heard about, but played with a little is "daisy"
which is a circle of app launchers. It handles 7 apps + the center opens dolphin
to the "applications" service (your start menu in tree mode) which gives you
access to all apps. It's like having your start menu in the center of the ring.
You will need to shrink it down from it default size. I have it running at about
110 px diameter and it works fine. A small screenshot:

(5k)
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/kde4/plsm-daisy.jpg

        Another good one is the weather app "Customizable Weather Plasmoid 
(CWP). Here
is daily + CWP:

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http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/kde4/plsm-daisy+wx.jpg

        Ditch plasma's standard "Analog" clock, it takes too much real estate. 
Go with
the digital clock:

(3k)
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/kde4/plsm-dclock.jpg

        Then you have your standard system monitor CPU and Network:

(11k)
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/kde4/plsm-cpumtr.jpg

(10k)
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/kde4/plsm-network.jpg

        And as I have posted before, the "Quicklaunch" let's you pack more apps 
into
less pixels than anything other than krunner:

(5k)
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/kde4/plsm-quicklaunch.jpg

        There are 55k worth of pixels showing some of the squatcheloids I have 
found
useful. (for further technical background, google "squatcheloid" - it is a
2-dimensional paradigm for describing a 3-dimensional constraint :-)


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