Plasma extenders proof of concept

Posted on July 9, 2007 by ereslibre

Yesterday I have been working on the plasma extender concept. Right now I have a proof of concept. It works quite fine for very few lines of code.

The animation of the concept itself is:

I have recorded an animation showing the proof of concept. If you want to try it yourself, you can also download the patch.

About ereslibre

Free Software developer and enthusiast. Architect/Developer. Researcher at Complutense University. Web developer. C, C++, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, JQuery, Qt, KDE expert. Rails hacker on the works.
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  • Diederik

    Dude, you rock!

    Each time I see a blog post about this attention details it makes me smile. It makes so much difference for the end user, and give KDE 4.0 a good first impression.

  • James

    The ogg animation crashes QuickTime on my machine. Any chance of having on YouTube?

  • David

    i’m impressed…you really rock!

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  • http://liquidat.wordpress.com liquidat

    Interesting to see that this oldest Plasma mockup finally comes to live. I’m really looking forward to see something out of that!

    Btw., if you agree I would host your video as a flash file.

  • superstoned

    I don’t think it should be here in a proprietary flash format. Let ppl download mplayer, xine or VLC…

  • Troy Unrau

    Jos:

    “Let ppl download mplayer, xine or VLC�?�”

    Right now I’m on a machine in the computer lab at the university. Not only does it have only an old version of flash, but it definitely does not have any capability of letting me install new codecs, nevermind unixy media players. Meh.

  • ac

    Troy: maybe thats on purpose? maybe you shouldn’t watch movies there? ;) at least its no valid reason to put it up in another format.

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  • Derek

    There are VLC packages that do not require installation on its web site.

  • jayKayEss

    I can’t get your video to play in VLC, Kaffeine, Totem, MPlayer, or Democracy! They all segfault.

  • E

    jayKayEss: Try adding -vo x11 to the mplayer command.

  • Diederik

    > jayKayEss: Try adding -vo x11 to the mplayer command.

    How can I do that in win32?? :-p mplayer crashes there too.

  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemcenter LordBernhard

    dude.. you’ve done really great work. hope were are going to see sthg. like this in the final KDE 4.0 release.. move on with your work plz ^^

  • Darktears

    Cool :) Good Job… Very impressive…Plasma will kill all other desktop

  • http://www.ereslibre.es Rafael Fernández López

    Thank you very much for your comments !!

    No idea about the crashes, they all work fine for me… :(

  • asdx

    You rock ereslibre :)

    I cant wait for KDE 4, plasma is looking amazing.

  • http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu Joshua K

    Nice job! That’s some very nice effects. I’ll be looking forward to more from you, so keep me posted. I’ll check back too.

  • Skutobantao

    I hope this feature is implemented in Plasma as good as it looks. If done right, this is sure to copied by MS and Apple (Apple for sure).