Version: (using KDE 4.3.4) OS: Linux Installed from: Gentoo Packages There isn't a frontend to fortune command or even a plasmoid which fetches quotations from the internet.
I think I remember seeing something like that on kde-look, might be worth checking out.
There are few only for Karamba. For Plasma there is only the "Atheist Quote Plasmoid" which isn't something everybody could use.
Thank you for your suggestion for a new applet. Unfortunately the core developer team of KDE Plasma is only working on the infrastructure of Plasma and the most important applets to provide a desktop shell. Your suggestion does not fall into this category. But anyone from the wider KDE community could implement such an applet as you suggested. It doesn't need the core Plasma developers to implement this. As the wider KDE community is not using this bugtracker, it is very unlikely that this request will be picked up by anybody and as the core developer team will not implement this feature, we have to set it as won't fix.