THank you i have found miniweb that suits me Paolo Duncan wrote: > 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. > ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.