No I haven’t dropped of the face of the earth, my life has just been boring recently, so I haven’t bothered posting anything :S Unfortunately this post will pretty boring to most people, especially those gnome fanboys.

KDE 4 now provides plasmoids, which are along the same lines as widget in Mac OSX, or those things in Vista that no-one ever uses. The current offerings are pretty slim, so I decided to rework an existing financial stock quote plasmoid to make it more usable. Overall writing the plasmoid is pretty much like writing any other Qt application.

Here is the final product, it can be downloaded from kdelook:

Stock Quote v1.1