Friday, November 30, 2012  a relaxing friday  I took some time
this evening to relax in a quiet, empty house by plonking away
at the Plasma Active Alarms app UI. I'm still not 100% satisfied
yet, but it's getting a lot closer.  Alarms plasmoid in
Application form factor with touch components Under the hood
there are a lot of really interesting things going on. For
instance, it's implemented as a Plasmoid that supports the
Application form factor; the first Plasmoid to do so, in fact.
What this means is that you can pop it on your desktop, in a
panel or run it as an application and it adapts its UI
appropriately. This is a new feature for 4.10 and I wonder what
other Plasmoids may make similar leaps. Alarms also works very
nicely in a "single column" form factor, smartphone style, when
the horizontal space is constricted.  It uses Akonadi's spiffy
KAlarm integration, so the alarm infrastructure was done for us
by the KDE PIM team. This grants the Alarms app integration with
all the other KDE PIM Stuff(tm) for