Well, it seems to be the season when Plasma developers are blogging again about their progress =)…so..here I go =)
The weeks befora Bossa Conference Sebas started helping me with Pastebin applet as we discussed during Tokamak: it was not as sexy as a plasmoid needs to be. So he just started (re)doing the UI bits and I tried to help him a little bit. We cleaned the code, changed the UI completely and now it’s much better!
![newui New pastebin UI (left default view, right mouse hover view)](http://blog.morpheuz.cc/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/newui1.png)
Default view (left), Mouse Hovering (right)
Now you can also put it on your panel and have something that looks nice (instead of just a sentence telling you to drop stuff in that region)..We also added tooltips showing the status of the applet.
![pastebin4 How it looks on the panel](http://labs.morpheuz.eng.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/pastebin4-300x33.jpg)
How it looks at the panel
Today the only thing that was not working was fixed and now notifications are working! So when it finishes posting your stuff, you’ll see a nice kde4 notification telling you that the URL was automatically copied to your clipboard.
![pastebin pastebin's notification](http://labs.morpheuz.eng.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/pastebin-300x80.jpg)
pastebin's notification
From the functionalities point of view, thanks to Davide we now have a context action (right click menu action) that performs a “paste” if you copied something (CTRL+C) and wants to directly paste into the applet. I also made it more “mouse friendly”: you can also middle click it and what you have in your clipboard will be pasted.
Now I’m really looking forward GSoC proposals and I hope to be a good mentor. There are a lot of proposals and the subjects that most interest me are Plasmate, Kinetic and Plasma-MID. Two weeks ago I gave a talk about GSoC and KDE at a local university. It was really good:
Now I’m planning to really focus on plasma-mid and plasmate that are the running projects (during my free time). As (almost) everybody knows, during work we’re playing with Animated Layouts inside Kinetic.
That’s exactly how I want it. Awesome.
Keep on roking!
maybe,
“Drop!” -> “Drop here” (2 lines)
?
Lol… Today I was using pastBin PLasmoid, And I dreamed about a nice icon istead the current one.
pastebin plasmoid is my favourite feature of KDE 4.3, just one little wish:
a little history is neccessary in right click menu that shows the last few pasted stuff.
I agree with Emil above, a history of the last 3 entries would be nice.
Hmm, what about extending pastebin plasmoid to do the job of klipper and provide a function to send data on pastebin.com?
Please give us the best desktop in Kde 4.3, users need a solid rock system like GNOME or Aqua