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don't like a dialog too.

most of the widgets can be assigned to a certain software. the adoption of new widget-buttons in plasma-netbook-shell (acting as simple launchers for appropriate program/webpage), clarifies the relation between the plasmoids and their "parental" application.

i like the idea of regarding plasmoids as satellites or clients for, lets say, 'hard'applications. they allow me to integrate webservices into the desktop in a clear way and prepare a nice access to some keyfunctions of my operating system and the data i have stored in diverse forms/applications.

especially data from kdepim is predestinated for interacting with plasma. the cooperation of akkregator and the news-applet is a good example. this very popular brainstorm also explains what i mean.

following the discribed path, a solution for the notes-applet can be found in the koffice-suite too: there is a program called knotes which seems to be developed for the same use cases as the plasmoid. why not combining them? i'm not a technican, so i don't know if it's hard to realize (one problem could be that knotes is in kdepim and that it would have to be active all the time).

however, an undo-feature would be great too. there will allways be widgets that are holding customized information but can't be related to a parental software (app-launcher).

The right solution would be to integrate the plasmoids with akonadi/korganizer in a way that the content my be restored later on.

I *hate* any kind of confirmation.

Confirmation only exists in digital world, and it is inhuman.

If developers were lazy, confirmation is easiest to implement. But this actually is a mis-feature, because it slows down your working process dramatically.

The correct behavior is to provide undo. i.e. undelete the plasmoid you have removed.

If you see you have done something wrong, just go to the recycle bin. It is okay to have a special recycle bin for plasma.

If user choose to set the size of recycle bin to zero, he will receive confirmation on every deletion.

Submitted: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175270

Ok, so this request got almost 200 votes and then got closed on account of being filed as a wish. The wish report has been around for 1 1/2 years and has had exactly one vote (I've added 10 of my own now). It is still marked as unconfirmed in the bug tracker. A little disappointing considering how popular it was here, and how crucial ANY kind of improvement to Plasma's handling of personal data would be.

I wonder how well this Brainstorm system is working... shouldn't popular wishes like this one be directly taken as wishes on the bug tracker (or right to the devs, I don't care), rather than to start the voting all over? Due to this faulty system, now the wish will never be implemented unless some dev happens to find it and likes the idea.