This would be very cool with the new plasma shell.

[Mark]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 February 2013, Mark wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's been a while ago since i last heard anything about the
>> "Chameleon", but it seems to be finished and installable for android
>> devices: http://chameleonlauncher.com/
>>
>> Implementing something like this on the new plasma shell in QML would
>> be very easy, right?
>
> what i see is mostlya space of widget arranged in a particular layout.
> very similar variation to 3 containments we already had, 2 of which in QML
> already, the netbook "newspaper", the active default containment, the active
> "widget strip"
>
> there are small differences in look/behavior, but those are details. (biggest
> difference from the "widget strip" is that is possible to have more than one
> widget per column, a feature i would like to have in it)
>
> basically is another reimagination of the same old concept :p

But it's a good one :)
Or at least, it looks good. I haven't actually used it.
>
>
> as for their widgets per se, maybe would be even possible to directly support
> them, since i see they are written in html, and we have a basic support for
> that (would need package format + eventual extra api binded to the javascript
> available to the html part)
>
That might be interesting. Ask them :)

>> Also, if you stroll down on that url you will see three screenshots
>> with "morning", "work" and "evening". I smell activities there ^_^
>>
>> Perhaps it would also be interesting to have something like that for
>> plasma-active?
>>
>> Before one asks or suggests. No, i'm not going to make it. Just
>> letting the plasma folks know about the chameleon existence and that
>> it might be cool to have. The most difficult thing to make here is
>> probably not the layout but connecting to all the various content
>
> as usual, dataengines and extra models is something we can just ask
> contributions for, that's always welcome :p

Another cool one is this: http://kaelri.deviantart.com/art/Enigma-103823591