On Monday 15 December 2008, D. R. Evans wrote: > I want to write some plasmoids. However, it looks incredibly complicated > compared to (say) writing a superkaramba theme.
what sort of plasmoid(s) are you thinking of taking a crack at? > Is the information at > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/GettingStarted > accurate? not really; it's pretty out of date at this point. > The first requirement seems to be to install and get running the > complete KDE4 development environment. Is all that really necessary? It as Alex said, this isn't necessary these days. > (Perhaps naïvely, I thought that writing a plasmoid would be about the same > as writing a superkaramba theme, and it took all of 45 minutes to write > the first one of those, from start to finish.) depending on what you want to do, it's about the same for a plasmoid. the issue is that we are lacking nice documentation and the system is a bit more powerful, and therefore the API commensurately larger, than what SK provides. with SK, you'd most commonly use the provided widgets and hook them up to sensors. in plasma, it's very similar, though instead of "sensors" we use "DataEngines". if you can describe what you'd like to do, i can probably give you some starting points at least =) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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