The fresh air of the Swiss Alps is good for many things. I came here to work on KDE Edu mostly but I’ll be reporting first about some contribution to Plasma.
During the last weeks I’ve been working, during my BlueSystems time, on a new plugin that will let you have a wallpaper written in QtQuick. I think it’s a very interesting step because it will provide a simpler way to draw KDE Plasma Wallpapers that can react to things.
For now I created a couple of wallpapers: One that’s really ugly and another one that fetches ASCII animals from the interwebz and makes it move randomly from time to time.
The good news is that it just works, that it has not a noticeable performance impact [1], that it’s terribly easy to write one and that it’s incredibly fun to play with them. 
[1] if you don’t make expensive stuff in the script, of course
PS: if anybody is interested in having such wallpapers working on KDE 4.9, please tell me and we’ll manage it 