Thats just fun!
Nice job.
You might want to add in functionality for starting services at startup.

Cheers
Ben

Woot! :)

I was just thinking that something like this is missing. At my laptop I only want to run apache while I’m coding for my site. Off course I could do a ‘sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start’ but that’s not something which would attract the Mac / Windows user base (and I’d agree with them). This seams to fill in yet another missing gap. :)

Looks nice from the functionality point of view but the plasmoids are not very usable since you have ambiguous meanings of the buttons. Intuitively I would have said, I need to click on the stop button to stop but it’s the other way round.

It’s exactly what i told them in irc channels already about the weather plasmoid. I find the buttons confusing, not knowing what state currently is active and what not. Apart from that, nice work mates!

Jamboarder: This is actually not the problem. In the above case you would still click on OFF when you want it to be ON, since the position of the button shows the state. This works pretty nicely on the iPhone where you slide the on and off states around but not in this scenario where you just click. So “moving from off to on” is not what is happening here.

Generally, if you had only one button (for whatever reason), it should always show the action as text and not the state, since a button’s text always shows the outcome of its interaction and nothing else.