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.
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?
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?
@Saleel: yes, will be in 4.4 and it’s accessible also as a context menu entry
Wow! (again:P)
This is fantastic. So simple, yet so useful!
@ Saleel Velankar: very good point!
Could that be integrated in the preview somehow?
Fantastic, simply fantastic.
(na figata per intenderci 😀 )
giuseppe
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. 😛