in the last few days we've added the ability to save and restore applet layouts, associating of applets with mimetypes (so you can drag content to the desktop and have it represented by an appropriate applet), layout improvements, the start of layer-based effects for things like shadows/blur, more progress on the scripting front (including the appearance of ruby bindings in addition to the qtscript ones and further integration of libplasma into superkaramba/python), taskbar strides and much more. a whole bunch of interesting if not overly splashy stuff that needs to happen to make it actually usable.
krunner started to get search engine integration using xesam (well, a reasonable facsimile of it given that it isn't a completed spec yet) with strigi as the current reference implementation and the new krunner interface is approaching completion.
the control box, panels, menu, systray are on the hit list of things to kill off the list.
today, some more plasma work at the tt offices until early afternoon and then i head to darmstadt for the board meeting. right now, i need to shower, pack and tidy up the apartment a bit. 90 minutes is plenty of time for that, right?
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maybe a stupid question but how would this work: so you can drag content to the desktop and have it represented by an appropriate applet.
If I am in an application window and want to drag something on the desktop (which I obviously don't see) how do I do this?
Not everybody uses their applications full screen the whole time... Furthermore, I'd guess you could drag it over the pager and have it switch your virtual desktop for you to an empty one.
a) you should be able to press a key combo to bring up the desktop layer (have yet to confirm this will work well enough, however)
b) you can drop it on a panel
ah, and there are no stupid questions, only my answers ;)
What happens if I drag and drop an mp3 file to a plasma desktop? :-)
Thanks for the answer Aaron. If it works via the pager that's cool.
@E: "What happens if I drag and drop an mp3 file to a plasma desktop?"
right now.. you get an icon representing it; there'll be play, etc buttons on hover. in future, however, there may be an applet that handles them even more intelligently, however.
we'll see what the future brings. it's one of the things that i'm really happy about in plasma: it's ultimately flexible so we can build new things as needed without changing the core or affecting other components.
http://www.dotedesign.com/
Sorry don't know where to put it else at the moment.
Give the page a try, I think you will get many ideas where to use an effect like this.
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