On Friday 05 February 2016 16:23:38 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Hi, > > I am missing the weather applet in my Plasma5 workspace. I found the > sources in kdeplasma-addons/applets/weather, but it seems not yet ported > and is disabled from the build. > > So I would see to port it over now myself. > > A few questions I have: > > Q1: > Is anyone already looking into it? > Any general plans with weather info display in Plasma5?
no, but as far i know the port of the weather dataengine in plasma-workspace was started > Q2: > I see plasma_applet_weather is using some libplasmaweather from > kdeplasma-addons/libs/plasmaweather, which is also not yet ported and > disabled from build. Looks it is for code sharing with the weatherstation > applet (which is unported and disabled from build as well). that was to have a common configuration window with the weatherstation applet, i don't think you need that anymore > Does it make sense to keep the current structure with the shared lib and > the applet, at least for the initial port of the weather applet? > > Q3: > Are there any Plasma5 applet tutorials, especially for porting? > > techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma5 seems about QQ2-only apps. > So far I was planning to look for some reference e.g. at the comic applet > and how it got ported. the qml of theapplet should be very easy to port, you can ignore the shared library and have straight port of that qml + port of dataengines -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
