I couldn’t find any plasmoid that lets you add a basic text file to the desktop,
is it possible?
right click on the desktop, create new, text file
do you have your desktop set to folder view?
I didn’t explain it well,
not put an actual file in the desktop folder, but display an .md file inside a widget
The Sticky Notes widget is more or less intended for this use case, though it doesn’t render markdown formatting or allow you to choose the data source to be a file of your choosing.
there is a widget for displaying a webpage on the desktop but i just tied adding it to my desktop and it crashed plasma 6.1
i’d file a bug report but 6.1 is not supported… only 5.27 and 6.2
@ngraham I hacked something together over the weekend, where I was able to make the sticky notes widget handle markdown instead of html (which is does right now).
I now need to decide if either we should continue support html files (for existing notes) and just use the markdown format for newly created notes (which makes sure existing notes keep rendering as they are) or we should just convert all html notes to markdown files. I currently have implemented the second approach, it works well, however not sure if there might be formatting issues for other people’s notes.
What do you think?
BTW: The according issue is https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504368
Cool! I replied in the bugzilla ticket; let;s continue there.