I’m also facing the same issue. The binary plasmoids run fine, but none of the scripted plasmoid runs.
I upgraded to 4.4 beta using the Factory Release repo on OpenSuse 11.2. If anyone needs any logs or anything to analyse the issue, i’ll be happy to provide it.
Is that the only one you’ve tried? It’s written in python, isn’t it? I know that works in beta2 (4.3.85) at least (from the factory repos), using these packages:
python-kde4
python-kde4-devel (not sure if this one’s needed)
python-kdebase4
The answer to this question is simple: beta 1 had no working kdebindings due to build issues (and so scripted plasmoids could not work). Beta 2 and upcoming RC 1 should have a working kdebindings.