After the video-clip applet for amarok context-view, here comes the Photos applet or more exactly the Flickr applet as it just fetch picture from Flickr for now … It works basically in the same way than the video-clip applet. Every song change, it will retrieve some info using the nice Flickr api and present them in amarok Context View. A Plasma::Animator is used to create a nice animation just on mouse over and make the photos slide from left to right.
Two videos showing it in action. The second one also shows the video-clip applet:
How do you like it ? I’ve planned to add two others ways of visualization : one showing the photo one by one with some fading between transition and the other one automatically scrolling from left to right.
That’s all for the photos widget, any feedback/idea/reclamation welcome 
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- The video widget received some minor update, like the ability to grab youtube HQ video, a configuration interface, a right click context menu (yepee), the current info and the playlist now show the downloaded thumbnail of the video when the video is played
- As Nikolaj has shown in his last post, the wikipedia applet has been revamped and now have the equivalent functionality as in 1.4. Navigation inside the applet, switch to album or title page, and a global language configuration
- The current applet also get some minor change, like the ability to drag’n drop an image from a file/web browser to change the cover. There are also now some automated scrolling on mouse over for the artist, album or title text when the current track applet is too small.
That’s all for now …
