<div>Would it make more sense perhaps to use .desktop files to store visual plasmoids and have .pengine in separate files? I can see being able to toggle preview of plasmoids in konqueror / dolphin / kicker instead of a desktop toolbox or plasmoid catalogue as we have now. Plasmoids can be pushed right into kicker as well, and / or dropped where desired in containers on the desktop or the desktop proper.
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<div>Down the road this is better for third party plasmoid developers as engines are refined and rolled up into kde releases proper. It helps to encourage better coding practices among developers with more reuse of engine code, as well as unifying the launcher plasmoids and plasmoids proper, and a unified way to script the kde desktop components interactively.
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<div>I haven't played with Beta 3 yet, but it would be great to be able to use Kioslaves to set the default directory of the containers, enabling sharing of contents across networks.</div>
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<div>BTW, looking forward to Kross. =)</div>
<div>(Agent) Smith</div>