Extract text from KDE Plasma widgets (PLASMOID)
To convert PLASMOID widgets to another format, you need KDE Plasma or other Plugin software.
To convert other file formats to the "Plasma Desktop Widget" file type, you need software like KDE Plasma or a similar tool.
The .PLASMOID file is a Plasma Widget used by the KDE Plasma desktop environment on Linux systems. It contains the code, UI layouts, and graphical assets needed to run small desktop applications like clocks, system monitors, or weather applets.
These files are natively installed and run by KDE Plasma's plasmapkg2 command-line tool. Because the format is essentially a compressed archive, archive managers like Ark, 7-Zip, or PeaZip can easily open them.
The primary disadvantage of a .PLASMOID file is its strict platform dependency. It is completely useless on Windows or macOS out of the box. Users often download these files assuming they are universal desktop widgets, only to find they cannot open or run them without a full KDE Linux installation. The format also requires knowledge of the Qt framework to edit.
The best conversion target is a ZIP archive. By extracting the .PLASMOID file, you gain access to the underlying QML (Qt Modeling Language) scripts, JS logic files, and graphical assets like SVG or PNG, though the widget functionality itself will be lost when extracted.
This file format is difficult to open or convert in a traditional sense because it is a complex software package, not a standard document or image. Often only the original KDE software can properly read or execute the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format like a standard ZIP structure, viewing or conversion of the internal assets may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PLASMOID file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PLASMOID file to SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT, CMD, SCR, PIF or LNK, you can use KDE Plasma or similar software from the "KDE Plasma Desktop Widget" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MSI, EXE, REG, MST, LNK, CAB, CAT, DRV, INF, SYS, MSU or DLL files to PLASMOID, try KDE Plasma or another comparable tool in the "KDE Plasma Desktop Widget" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our PLASMOID converter.