On a Dell Lattitude 500 – I added the plasmoid and it wouldn’t work
then after a few minutes I rebooted
added the applet - again haha
and it was BLUE this time 
I changed the setting to my preferences and it works PERFECTLY!!!
WOW this is why I will probably ALWAYS run KDE – just because of the plasmoids
and I typed all this on the laptop you can look it up
it’s got 512mb ram
1.3 GHz cpu SINGLE core
um 18 GB hard drive
THE WORKS haha
Thanks again