Re: Tokamak Meeting II

2009-01-19 Thread D. R. Evans
Nuno Pinheiro said the following at 01/19/2009 06:06 AM : > My plan is that everybody gives a litle talk so > 1 I can make the local organizers happy. > 2 share our personal adgenda. > What kind of record of the talks is going to made available afterwards? The slides? Or a video? Doc -- We

Re: sorry... too hard

2008-12-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Simon St James said the following at 12/27/2008 11:46 AM : > Hi D.R., > > On Saturday 27 December 2008 16:04:58 D. R. Evans wrote: >> Sanity finally set in. >> >> I thought that it would take an hour or two to write a fairly trivial >> plasmoid, just to get m

sorry... too hard

2008-12-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Sanity finally set in. I thought that it would take an hour or two to write a fairly trivial plasmoid, just to get my feet wet. After more than thirty hours of work, I realise that I'm not even remotely close to having a system capable of building one. And I haven't even written a line of code ye

Need off-reflector help setting up development system

2008-12-24 Thread D. R. Evans
Would someone be willing to help me off the reflector? I'm trying to set up a VM with a KDE development system, following bits and pieces of instructions in various places, and am beginning to question both my sanity and whether I shouldn't just go away and do something easier. I just finally hit

Re: System Monitor

2008-12-24 Thread D. R. Evans
k...@randomguy3.me.uk said the following at 12/24/2008 10:05 AM : > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:18:05 -0700, "D. R. Evans" > wrote: >> Since I saw ksysguard mentioned in this thread, I'd like to mention in >> passing that for me the killer feature in the KDE3 ksysgu

Re: System Monitor

2008-12-23 Thread D. R. Evans
Aaron J. Seigo said the following at 12/23/2008 11:17 AM : > On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Dominik Haumann wrote: >> into my mind are System Status, System Load Watcher, System Load Viewer, >> TimeMon, System Essentials, System Usage, ... > > System Load Viewer is quite straight forward and "says i

Re: Q: Installing python DataEngine?

2008-12-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Sebastian � said the following at 12/22/2008 07:05 PM : > > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Package > > Took me some time to find as well ;) Brilliant! Thank you, sir. Doc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Plasma

Re: Q: Installing python DataEngine?

2008-12-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Richard Dale said the following at 12/19/2008 04:01 AM : > > When I run the command I get a pile of debugging output like this: > > > I run plasmapkg in the directory above the one that has the metadata.desktop > file in it as above. > > OK; when I do that, I don't get any errors. But I als

Re: KRunner interaction and feedback

2008-12-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Casper Clemence said the following at 12/17/2008 05:24 AM : > I was considering how KRunner feedback and interaction could be > enriched and have blogged some schematic mock-ups. > > If you have the time/are interested the link is below > > http://maninalift.blogspot.com/2008/12/krunner-and-new-

Re: Q: Installing python DataEngine?

2008-12-18 Thread D. R. Evans
Richard Dale said the following at 12/18/2008 04:20 AM : > 2008/12/18 Aaron J. Seigo > >> On Wednesday 17 December 2008, D. R. Evans wrote: >>> I have a .desktop file and main.py file for a simple DataEngine. How do I >>> go about actually installing the DataEng

Re: Q: Installing python DataEngine?

2008-12-18 Thread D. R. Evans
Aaron J. Seigo said the following at 12/17/2008 10:29 PM : > On Wednesday 17 December 2008, D. R. Evans wrote: >> I have a .desktop file and main.py file for a simple DataEngine. How do I >> go about actually installing the DataEngine into the system? (So I can then > > if i

man pages for plasma utilities?

2008-12-18 Thread D. R. Evans
Does anyone know how I would install man pages for utilities such as plasmapkg and plasmaengineexplorer into a Kubuntu system? (And similar man pages for any other plasma-related utilities that I haven't yet stumbled across.) Doc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

Re: getting started with plasmoid development

2008-12-18 Thread D. R. Evans
Alex Merry said the following at 12/18/2008 11:19 AM : > > Dox are at http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs- > apidocs/plasma/html/classPlasma_1_1SignalPlotter.html. > Documentation! Calloo, callay! I was beginning to think that it was a rite of passage to try to figure everything out by somehow

Q: Installing python DataEngine?

2008-12-17 Thread D. R. Evans
I have a .desktop file and main.py file for a simple DataEngine. How do I go about actually installing the DataEngine into the system? (So I can then use plasmaengineexplorer to see if the DataEngine is doing what I expect.) I tried Install New Widget | Install from File | Python Widget and pointe

Re: getting started with plasmoid development

2008-12-17 Thread D. R. Evans
Aaron J. Seigo said the following at 12/17/2008 05:57 PM : > >> find an example of a python plasmoid that uses a SignalPlotter the way that >> I could for the DataEngine, though, so I have nothing to steal and no >> documentation to get an understanding of what SignalPlotter does and how to > >

Re: getting started with plasmoid development

2008-12-17 Thread D. R. Evans
Aaron J. Seigo said the following at 12/15/2008 03:42 PM : > > so, the "Plasma Way" to do this would be to create a DataEngine that handles > the NOAA part. it would download and parse the data for the Applet. the > Applet > would connect to it by doing something like (assuming you called your

Re: getting started with plasmoid development

2008-12-15 Thread D. R. Evans
I usually use kdevelop for development on KDE machines; is there anything in particular I need to know about configuring kdevelop in order to use it for building a plasmoid such as the one I mentioned earlier? Doc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: getting started with plasmoid development

2008-12-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Aaron J. Seigo said the following at 12/15/2008 03:04 PM : > 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

getting started with plasmoid development

2008-12-15 Thread D. R. Evans
I want to write some plasmoids. However, it looks incredibly complicated compared to (say) writing a superkaramba theme. Is the information at http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/GettingStarted accurate? The first requirement seems to be to install and get running the complete KDE