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I want to propose to a developer to make a plasmoid that indicates when we have the cups lock, num lock enabled. In KDE 3.5 it had a karamba for this

This would be really easy to implement. When you have some C++ experience (or maybe Ruby or Python) you should try it.
You can find code to determine such stuff at KDE/kdebase/krunner/lock/lockdlg.cc:

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void PasswordDlg::capsLocked()<br />{<br /> unsigned int lmask;<br /> Window dummy1, dummy2;<br /> int dummy3, dummy4, dummy5, dummy6;<br /> XQueryPointer(QX11Info::display(), DefaultRootWindow( QX11Info::display() ), &dummy1, &dummy2, &dummy3, &dummy4, &dummy5, &dummy6, &lmask);<br /> mCapsLocked = lmask & LockMask;<br /> updateLabel();<br />}

Look at the Plasma-Tutorials at KDE-Techbase.

Already implemented. I have this plasmoid. it's called input device status applet. I think it's in playground.
This is how it looks like: link

Somehow the thumbnail doesn't work.

I'm marking it already implemented.

thanks for the info
in mandriva i did nt find this plasmoid

@Dimitrios - I could find this only on Ubuntu and OpenSUSE (To my best knowledge). It isn't part of the KDE officially yet, I think.

I've uploaded Ubuntu's used sources at KDE-Look.org, you can grab it and build it here:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Ke ... ent=115234

The plasmoid was written by Gunnar Schmi Dt [(C) 2004] and Sebastian Sauer [(C) 2008]

It's in playground, that means it is written in some state but has not been included in an official KDE release yet.

Thanks, thats great

How can something that has to be "built" considered implemented? I say that a non technical user who tried to build it but failed. KDE 3.5 had it ready to go (i.e, right click panel, find it and done); shouldn't KDE4?
My logitech wireless keyboard has no lights so this is important, especially for the wife
Thanks for listening.

You will have to take that up with with your distribution. It is their choice not to build it. Some distributions do, some don't. KDE has no control over which packages distributions choose to build and which they don't. It exists, and is available. That means it is implemented.

Thanks for the explanation BlackCat. I'm a silly newbie who shouldn't stray too far from own forums

With the plasma 5: keystate-plasmoid; https://github.com/xdarklight/keystate-plasmoid

An accessibility Plasmoid that shows the status of various key on your keyboard (for example if "Caps Lock" is enabled or "Meta" is pressed)....

KDE bug / wish: Bug 374334 - Please add a notification when NumLock/CapsLock is switched on/off - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374334