On Thursday 11 December 2008 19:00:30 Bernhard Mustermann wrote: > So.. now my problem: Documentation is a bit suboptimal .. well.. who want's > to write docu ^^ ... so I'm a bit lost on where to start ...
Yeah, the documentation could be better. But a good place to start is the tutorials on techbase: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma Then just start coding and reading a lot of apidox. That worked for me when I started. But we should definitely improve our documentation. I think we need a comprehensive 'quick start guide' for starting developers. So much to do, so little time... > I'll try to explain what I'd like to do and I'd really appreciate to hear > your opinion: I quite like this idea. :) > Design decisions: > > 1.) Would an extender be preferred and a good choice? What I think sounds > nice may be docking one event-counter to the clock. Although I don't know > if an extender can be iconified for the panel. I think it's a very good idea (but hey, extenders were my summer of code project ;) ). If you use a PopupApplet, surprisingly much is done for you without you having to care about the details. Take a look at the extender tutorial to see how to use them. And don't hesitate to ask you extender questions to me, my name on irc is pinda. > 2.) As mentioned before the plasmoid should work in panels and on the > desktop itself... maybe it would be nice that the bigger the panel grows > the more information are shown. certainly. :) Just track your size changes in the constraintsEvent and respond accordingly. > 3.) another "problem" are the time zones -- different time zones/countries > -- different dates -- think I'll have to find a solution myself.. don't > expect anything of use to be in KDE for such a usecase ^^ There's a dataengine for that in plasma, which is used by the other clocks. Now that I think of it, it might even make sense to use libplasmaclock as basis for your counter. You'll then get timezone configuration for free. But I haven't looked much into libplasmaclock so I'm not sure how easy it is as basis for this specific usecase. > 4.) Would themes be of any use? maybe for the basic events like Christmas, > easter, .... Yeah, you could provide a standard set of svgs for basic events, install them in the desktoptheme/plasmoidname directory, and this way allow plasma themes to provide custom images for your applet if they like. > 5.) I think a dataengine would be the right way on separating the data from > the view? You mean, like writing an 'upcoming events' dataengine? I think that would be nice. > I'm really looking forward on getting some feedback from you and I wish you > good luck in polishing and ironing out the last bugs for the 4.2 release > :-) Welcome... and have fun exploring plasma :) > Best regards > > Bernhard Friedreich _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
