Are you sick of KDE notifications popping up under your mouse cursor and distracting you from the things you are doing? I am. That brought me to the idea for two new plasmoids: one of them displays notifications while the other one shows the status of jobs (file copying, etc) – and both do their job in a very unobtrusive way. No popups, just pure functionality. Read more…

Please use the comment section to tell me about bugs you have found or features you are missing in the current version.

In this article I’ll present my Service Monitor plasmoid, show what it looks like and what it can do. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about: a plasmoid is a desktop widget for KDE – Service Monitor’s purpose is to monitor the status of background processes (so-called daemons) and to start/stop them. Read more…

I just published my very first KDE plasmoid (desktop widget) written in python. It manages background services (daemons). You can start/stop them with a single click, add arbitrary custom services and share them with other users. The plasmoid can be downloaded via kde-look.org. If you have any question about it, feel free to use the comment section as a discussion forum.

After upgrading KDE to the latest version on my Debian (testing) system, python-based plasmoids no longer work. Plasmoidviewer only tells me: AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘relpath’. After 2 hours of struggling, I finally came up with a quick-and-dirty workaround… Read more…

Ocassionally one wants to give a script or program the opportunity to inform the user of some events – even if it is running hidden or in the background. For these cases KDE uses KNotify (a notification area in the systray). Since D-Bus has replaced DCOP, accessing KNotify has become more difficult. A small python script helps to do the job. Read more…