“Hello new splashscreen”.

No, seriously now, here it is: (more…)

After the so much loved analog clock and the relative screencast I did some time ago to present to the world the first plasmoid ever, it’s time for a little replica.
The new clock I made is more modern and fresh, and it’s digital. It’s made to look like the big informations that you can find in the train stations, the ones who flip down to change what is written on them.

Working both in Plasma and in Oxgen is really worthwhile to create these nice stuff.
So, here it borns this clock. And this is just the beginning, because both me and Nuno have a continuous flow of ideas of new features and cool effects we can implement into it, at the point that Nuno yesterday said that “this is going to be the best plasmoid ever”. And I really hope so.
For the pretty pictures, viva Nuno!
I made a little screencast, so you can see how nicely it animates. Unfortunately it has been a bit fucked up with the colors, so here’s a screenshot to see how it really looks:

IMPORTANT NOTE: In the screencast I’m showing hours and seconds, instead of hours and minutes: the seconds are displayed in the screencast just to make you see the animation better.
Seconds will be added, as the code that makes the animation is pretty fast, but we still haven’t deicided where; they can be little and near the minutes, or simply a ‘:’ flashing.

• Download the screencast (OGG Theora, 145 KBytes)
• Download the screencast (AVI, 138 KBytes)

Have fun! =)

Hello folks! =)
I’m really glad to announce that finally I finished implementing the icons for Plasma.
I initially got inspired by one of the David’s mockups: he was showing it to me to see if I could implement something similar: he knew I was already working on icons for Plasma.
What he showed me was essentially this flash animation that shows the concept live, and this other PDF that actually explains in detail what the animation does. (I really suggest looking at them, they’ll make you do a big ‘WOW’)
I immediately loved his idea, and I told him that I would immediately begin to implement it. This morning, I proudly showed the results of my work to Nuno, and he refined the look of those Plasma icons. And a screenshot is a must.

So, this is basically how it looks right now. The icon in the top-left corner actually represents one of those “quick actions” you can read about in the PDF and look at in both the animation and in the screencast. Because, obviously, I made a screencast! =)

Download the screencast (6.1 Mb)

I would like also to thank Siraj Razick very much for the initial code and efforts he put in the icons.

Take care, and see you in the next post! =)

P.S. Today I’m going to go on holiday for a few days, so if you don’t see your comment approved for some time, you know why. Sorry, I have to keep this “each user must have at least one approved comment” restriction because else the blog would become full of spam (I’m already handling a lot of it). Your comment hasn’t been lost, just.. will take some more time to appear! =)

UPDATE: added an antispam filter. For this reason now all the comments are immediately accepted by default.