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It will not distract your eyes while working on an important project. Key Features of Advanced Radio Player. You guessed it right! This is just a calendar widget for your desktop. But it has some great features apart from just showing you the date. From my experience, I can say that this adds up to your productivity game and one of the best KDE Plasma widgets of all time.

The widget lies beautifully on your desktop and shows you important updates and agendas. It has some additional tools built-in with this like timer, weather, etc. This widget can even integrate with third-party services that are very convenient. Even Android is a great example of a Linux derivative. But what if you can control your smartphone just from your desktop? This is when the KDE Connect comes in handy. The little widget helps you to keep your smartphone connected to the desktop.

You will be instantly notified whenever a notification pops up or even transfer files between devices. This is a powerful applet for the KDE environment.

Designwise it resembles the volume mixer found on Windows 7. Hence the developers named it like this.

The default volume mixer is different in different desktop environment s. They are not that featureful or quickly tweakable. The Win7 Volume Mixer will let you control the output from various sources.

You can launch it right from the system tray. The graphical UI is beautifully optimized, and you will find a bunch of features regarding volume properties. Key Features of Win7 Volume Mixer. No matter whichever distro I use, I always go for a custom desktop clock. It makes the desktop more aesthetic, and I can just take a glance at the desktop to know the current time. Rather the hour and minute digits are vertically arranged.

I will even show the name of the day with the current date and month. Key Features of Split Digital Clock. This is not a general-purpose widget for your desktop. But if you are a student or an educator, then I will suggest you install it. It is just like any other translation app out there. You can just translate right from your desktop. You may have heard the name of the tool Translate Shell for Linux.

This widget uses that as the backend of this widget. It uses third party translation services API for translating a wide range of languages. The widget is quite rich, with a lot of features. This KDE Plasma widget is not that simple like the name sounds. Instead, it is full of important features. A system monitoring tool is a must-have for power users.

KDE software consists of a large number of individual applications, Plasma, a desktop workspace to run these applications, and KDE Frameworks, a set of libraries they are build upon. You can run KDE applications just fine on any desktop environment. By using also Plasma, you get even better integration of your applications with the working environment while lowering system resource needs. Plasma runs fine on relatively recent PCs, but it also works great on older machines with more constrained resources.

In my opinion, one of the aspects that stands KDE Plasma head and shoulders above its desktop peers is extensibility. Plasma lets you configure the desktop to your specific preferences. KDE Plasma widgets also known as plasmoids are a smart way of customizing the desktop. In this updated article, I recommend 24 of my favorites. There should be something for everyone. The vast majority of my recommendations can be installed using the Plasma Add-On Installer see image below.

Widgets can also be installed via the Discover application, or installed from a local file. All the widgets were tested with Arch or Manjaro.