i should be working (but i'm fixing my computer).

A post on, I think, KDE Planet has suggest that users can post their feature suggestions/requests in the kde community forum.

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It's unlikely my particular wish list is broadly applicable (meaning it won't happen), but I'll list some things here:

1. Fix plasma so I can use more panels, icons and widgets (I've chronicled here how easy it has been for me to exceed plasma's ability to handle these things. But, it would be nice to run all plasma panels instead of one plasma and two kicker panels (to hold the icons I need).

2. Provide a version of the "kima" applet for plasma.

3. Fix network manager interface so it works the way the Gnome one does. That is, so that it works. (I can't make connections other than eth0 in the wired mode; and in wireless mode, sometimes I can connect and sometimes I can't. The connection manager just isn't working for me.)

4. Provide plug-in capability for google gadgets so they can run as widgets.

5. Allow user selection of which desktop widgets display on, rather than on all desktops.

I have one "backend" issue, but I have no idea whether a solution is possible. I connect to my website via sshfs. The folder list refresh is pretty slow and it would be nice if it could be accelerated somehow. (I get around it by using the very useful feature of dolphin that let's me click & hold on the current folder in the folder path at the top -- which gives a drop down menu of the available folders. I've also found this particularly useful dealing with "hidden folders/files." I keep them displayed, which can make it fairly tedious finding the normal working folders when viewing the user home folder. But, the hidden folders do not display in the "click & hold" menu list. Yay! Good thinking, whoever programmed this feature ... !)

But in any event, the dolphin -> sshfs interface seems to be considerably slower than an ftp connection for browsing files.

Anyway, I'm on Plasma desktop configuration number [too big to count], which is looking like the following screenshot. The widgets and placement seems to have survived re-boot. Those are kicker panels left and top. The plasma panel is at the bottom on "auto-hide" -- which I would prefer not to do, but it's the only convenient way I came up with of also running cairo-dock (which rather heretically says "ubuntu" at the bottom of my screen -- weird as I'm running KDE on OpenSUSE, but I like the theme ...)

I don't actually use cairo-dock much, but I like its weather widget, which provides more info than the one I've got on the desktop.