application in the dashboard?

[Duncan]

xPol posted on Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:26:27 +0100 as excerpted:

> What is the command line to launch an application in the dashboard?
> Say, firefox.

The dashboard is basically a specially treated plasma desktop/activity.  
As such, like other plasma desktop activities and other plasma containers 
(like the panels) in general, it only runs specific plasma widgets, known 
as plasmoids, not general X applications like firefox.

There are various webkit-based browser plasmoids available for placement 
on the desktop or in the dashboard, that do allow browsing the web, etc, 
but as with all plasmoids, these run within the same plasma process 
context, not as separate apps, like firefox.

If you've not discovered it yet, try kde-look.org , which has quite a 
variety of plasmoids available to supplement the ones shipped with kde 
and your distribution by default.  That gives you many more choices, but 
AFAIK there's none that force a full-scale regular application (like 
firefox) to display in a plasmoid window, neither IMO would such an idea 
make that much sense, tho plasma does allow the functional replacement or 
embedding of smaller scale applets. especially those already developed 
with kde technology.  (Firefox, OTOH, is a gtk based app not a qt/kde app, 
thus making integration in the kde technology plasma even MORE 
difficult.  But as I said, there's qt-webkit based browser plasmoids 
available... but by definition they won't have the power and flexibility 
of a full-fledged stand-alone app, regardless of the toolkit (qt, gtk, 
tk, fltk, etc) they're based on.)

Hope that answers your question.

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