2/1/2024 0 Comments Bouncing red balls![]() ![]() ![]() KDE dropped the bouncy ball from Plasma add-ons in 2014, reasoning at the time that: “…when trying to develop a professional experience toys and gimmicks aren’t a good thing to be shipping by default. ![]() But the relatively randomness of it amidst a set of semi-useful tools, like clocks, battery meters, and app launchers, kinda enhanced its appeal.Īnd not just to people like me, but to cats, the general measure of awesomeness in all things: Like most desktop widgets the KDE bouncing ball was, of itself, largely pointless. ![]() Widgets Were EverywhereĪt the time this widget was bouncing around people’s desktops, desktop widgets in general were the “in thing”.Įvery one seemed to be offering them: Google Desktop Yahoo Widgets, Windows Gadgets, Apple’s Dashboard, plus gDesklets, aDesklets, Screenlets and KDE Plasma widgets on Linux. Sadly in the (admittedly not deep) research of this article I couldn’t find out who created the original widget, nor when it first appeared in KDE and KDE-based Linux distributions.īut I did learn what became of it. “I played around with KDE widgets, and decided to try ‘bouncy ball’, it’s a big red ball that bounce around on your desktop. the problem, and here I am not sure if I should blame myself or the ball, is that i adjusted some settings, so that the ball bounces around at a quite high speed, and…. Get too carried away tweaking the speed and velocity options and you’d end up with a ball you couldn’t catch, as detailed in a forum post of the time: This latter setting was also a danger, though. I’m talking proper calculations, logic and physics must have been crafted to control how the ball bounced, because it reacted to force and height, and you could control its speed. KDE’s Bouncy Red Ballįor what is essentially just a bit of fluff a lot of effort has to have gone in to creating the bouncy ball widget for KDE. The ball bounces again - see THIS post for more details. ![]()
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