4 This is the application that provides the panels and desktop work area in KDE4.
5 Much of the functionality that the code here is based on resides in
6 workspace/libs/plasma/.
8 For more information, please visit the Plasma website at http://plasma.kde.org.
13 There are a number of subdirectories here. The purpose of each is explained:
15 design: documentation on various aspects of the plasma and krunner code base
18 animators: Plugins of type Animator, which provides standard animation
19 support to Plasma objects
20 applets: Applets considered absolutely core to the desktop
21 containments: Standard containment objects that are not meant to be
22 used as stand-alone applets
23 desktoptheme: A collection of SVG elements for use in Plasma, Applets and
25 dataengines: DataEngines considered generally useful for desktop components
26 runners: Provides matches to queries
27 scriptengines: Glue between libplasma and APIs provided via dynamic languages or
29 wallpapers: Background rendering for containments
31 shells, applications that provide plasma viewing environments:
32 desktop: A traditional desktop experience with panels and full screen backgrounds
33 mid: A simplified shell designed for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) featuring full
34 screen launcher and navigation
35 plasmoidviewer: A viewer for individual plasma applets
36 screensaver: A Plasma overlay for screensavers that works in concert with krunner_lock
39 engineexplorer: A small graphical utility to examine engines
40 plasmapkg: Installs, removes and lists plasma packages