[Panel-devel] Onscreen Keyboard Plasmoid

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On Tue November 13 2007, Henry Stanaland wrote:
> > On Montag, 12. November 2007, Henry Stanaland wrote:
> > > On your blog you mentioned an on screen keyboard plasmoid.
> >
> > Maybe a bit related to this. Will it be possible to assign a shortcut to
> > a plasmoid in order to bring it to the front and keep it there? E.g. a
> > calculator would be handy only if it was kept above the document I work
> > on and I need the calculations for.
>
> This too is something I was thinking about. I see Aaron laid out his ideas
> for z-ordering on this blog entry:
> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/07/plasma-and-mac-dashboard.html
>
> While I understand the technical requirements to have plasmoids on the
> desktop, on panels, or layered on top like Apple....I don't see how you
> could
> select a single plasmoid with a shortcut and "bring it to the front and
> keep it
> there."  For that to happen, the plasmoids would have to be running in its
> own X window, right?

exactly. It would require repopulating that plasmoid in a new always on top 
plasma QGV.

> -Henry Stanaland



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