Google is shutting down their Translate API come December and they have already started to require a REFERER in the request. I would have to make quite a lot of changes to make it work just for the rest of November, so the Google Translator Plasmoid is officially discontinued.
https://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html
It took me almost a full year but here’s the 0.6 release of my Currency Converter Plasmoid.
Most noticeably is the use of Plasma::PopupApplet which let you dock the Plasmoid in the Panel. The (almost) full list of changes can be seen in the Changelog.
Download at Google Code or KDE-Look.org or get it via "Add Widgets" from the Plasma Desktop.
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Well I’m not, but I’m having a lot of fun 
My first two Plasmoids are very simple but gave me a brief look into the possibilities of the Plasma Workspace, and I had to ask a lot of newbie questions on plasma-devel which is a very responsive mailing list. I cannot remember any of my questions that have gone unanswered and most of them with very good solutions and/or answers.
My latest endeavor is a bit more challenging. Plasma doesn’t have a simple ListView so you’ll have to use a Plasma.ScrollWidget and implement the methods yourself. For me that was somewhat annoying primarily because I’m still fighting a stale battle with the Qt layouts
Now I have to figure out how I’m gonna the cache Last.fm feed and all the pics that I’m downloading. For 3 reasons, the most important is of course performance, followed by the fact that the tests I’ve run on my crappy HW results in X pixmaps getting corrupted [*], and lastly that it’s a part of the Last.fm ToS…
For now I use job = KIO.get(KUrl(url), KIO.NoReload, KIO.HideProgressInfo) and connect to job‘s signals to get the the feed and to download the thumbnail pics of the events I use KIO.file_copy(from, to). This basically works but how can I get the HTTP Headers? I need to know if I should reuse the data I already have or if I should download it again.
Regarding the actual caching I was considering using a combination of:
KStandardDirs::addResourceDir()
KIconLoader::KIconLoader(const QString &appname = QString(), KStandardDirs *dirs = 0, QObject *parent = 0)
KIcon (const QString &iconName, KIconLoader *iconLoader)
But I’m uncertain how to use them.
Comments are very welcome as I’m a bit stuck here.
[*] I have no idea what I’m talking about here, but I get black icons after running X number of tests :-/
And are no screen shots in this post as the work has mostly been "under the hood".
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… for a new Plasma Widget that is 
I’ve just started implementing a mashup that lists music events going on your own location (from Last.fm) and adds links to Google Maps, Social Services etc.
But the beast needs a name as I think “Last.fm Events” is a tad too generic. It has to be a name that gives the user an idea of what the widget does, so it shouldn’t be too imaginatively – like say Plasma, Akonadi, Funambol etc. No offense intended
BTW a name is also needed because I need to register at Last.fm to get an API key and I have to inform them about the applications name. It’s a bit premature for something that hasn’t been released even at Alpha level but that is in their ToS…
There’s still a long way to go but here are some screenies as an appetizer for what can be expected:
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Now there’s a shiny, new Google Translator Plasmoid version 0.6.
Well maybe that’s a bit exaggerated because the User Interface hasn’t changed a bit, but there’s a lot of new stuff going on under the hood that will also soon benefit the Currency Converter Plasmoid.
Head on to Google Code or KDE-Look for downloads or get it via "Add Widgets" from the Plasma Desktop.
Changes can be found in the Changelog.
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Updated my Google Translator Plasmoid to version 0.5 with the biggest news being auto-detection of languages.
Head on to Google Code or KDE-Look for downloads or get it via "Add Widgets" from the Plasma Desktop.
Changes can be found in the Changelog.
Updated my Google Translator Plasmoid to version 0.4.3.
Head on to Google Code or KDE-Look for downloads or get it via "Add Widgets" from the Plasma Desktop.
Changes can be found in the Changelog.
Finally I got to update my Google Translator Plasmoid to version 0.4.2.
Changes since I last updated this blog includes:
For the last 2-3 weeks I have been working on a couple of scripted Plasmoids for KDE4.x written in Python. First I started with the Currency Converter which uses data from Yahoo! Finance. When it was sorta working I figured out that I could create a Google Translator Plasmoid using almost the same code, so now I’m maintaining them concurrently. Well – ’nuff said. Here ther are:
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