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Hello all! It's only a personal opinion, but today I present you my best of ever idea !

My idea is to create an application launcher from the full desktop area. For example, we can click somewhere, and the current desktop become disable ( gray or blur) then a list of application / favorite application appear on it. It must be a simple icon list. Imagine for example the iphone list application.
We can use for it Plasma desktop for example, selected in desktop config.
Or maybe an external application which be showing in fullscreen and with transparency...

I think the "Show plasma Desktop" plasmoid is a good way to start it.
With KwinEffect, it can be really fun and usefull!

Something similar exists for plasma for netbooks:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/revi ... places.ars

It looks like.. But I don't want a plasmoid container.
Application icon must appear only when you press a button, and it must use WinEffects.
It can be a big and new innovation! I m ready to bet that Mac OS will do it!

Well, I guess SAL could be easily converted not to be a /desktop/ replacement...

Mind that fullscreen launchers are not that optimal when the screen is large.

As ivan said, this has already been developed for the plasma netbook version. And the netbook developers have already said the stuff they developed will be made available to plasma as a whole. That is one of the benefits of plasma, you can use whatever bits and pieces you want rather than having to use a single, pre-packaged desktop