[Demonstration]
Hello! Welcome to this new Plasma Screencast!
Today, I want to show you a new feature that has just been added to Plasma: apparently basic, but yet very exciting. It is a feature that all modern desktops already have, but today we have reinvented it. today we talk about.
Icon!
Now, let me show you a small demo first, I can drag stuff from any application, drop them on my Plasma desktop and such an icon will appear.
Have you noticed the small thing that appears on the top-left corner when I hover the icon? Right, that is the feature that makes our icon new. And, see what happens if I click on it.
The file opens! Yeah, sounds simple. But what is the concept behind it? basically, it is a type of a “quick action menu”. Right now there is only one little bubble, because I only added a generic action, but we plan to have one of these circles for each corner.
The coolest thing is that those buttons can be specific for each mime type. For example, if the icon represents a music file, we can have one button that plays the song, another to add it to the playlist, and one to retrieve metadata.
Of course, these are just ideas. The whole mechanism is very extensible and it is really EASY to add features! And that is all for this screencast, I hope you enjoyed this new addiction.
See you in the next screencast! Bye!
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