Contents 1 Plasma Programming with C++ 2 Plasma Programming with JavaScript 3 Plasma Programming with Python 4 Plasma Programming with Ruby 5 Plasma Programming with Web Technologies (HTML/JS/CSS etc) 6 Theme development 7 Resources

Plasma Programming with C++

Getting Started With Plasmoids

Creating your first plasmoid in C++ with SVG background, icon and text

Writing a DataEngine

DataEngines provide a standardized interface to various data sources for visualizations to use. Learn what a DataEngine is and how to write one of your own.

Video tutorial

Video and slides from a presentation on libplasma (link to Slides below)

Link To Slides For The Above Video

Slides For The Presentation Creating User Interfaces With Plasma by Aaron Seigo

How to use extenders in your Plasmoid

A simple example that shows how to use extenders in a Plasmoid.

Creating Runners

Runners are plugins that provide action-based search functionality in the Plasma workspace "run command" dialog. These plugins can be used by any application that links again libplasma.

Creating Comic Plugins

This guide shows you how to create a comic plugin for the comic plasmoid.

Wallpaper Tutorial 1

This tutorial shows you how to make a simple Hello World plasma wallpaper plugin.

Plasma Programming with JavaScript

Plasma has built-in JavaScript (also known as ECMAScript, and often referred to as QtScript in the context of Qt) scripting support without requiring any external dependencies.

Getting Started

Creating and running your first plasmoid in JavaScript

Getting Data

How to retreive data from a data engine

Now Playing

Slightly more advanced data engine usage: displaying what's currently playing

System Monitor

How to access systemmonitor data engine

Cheat Sheet

A cheat sheet, rather than a tutorial, of things to remember and watch out for when developing JavaScript plasmoids

API Reference

The Simplified JavaScript Plasmoid API. Useful for referencing what is available in the runtime and as a study aid for the tutorials above.

plasma-desktop Scripting

The KDE Plasma Desktop provides means to manage the desktop shell (desktop, panels, widget) via scripts written in JavaScript. This article describes how to take advantage of this feature set as well as documents the full API. This is primarily a system administration tool, but may also be of interest to power users.

Plasma Programming with Python

Getting Started

Creating and running your first plasmoid in Python

Using widgets

Introduction to using Plasma widgets

Using DataEngines

How to use DataEngines from a plasmoid

Writing DataEngines

How to write your own Plasma DataEngine

Writing a Plasmoid in Python

Writing a simple battery graph in python

Plasma Programming with Ruby

Getting Started

Creating and running your first plasmoid in Ruby

Using widgets

Introduction to using Plasma widgets

Writing a simple paste applet

A tutorial explaining how to set up a plasmoid, create a simple paste applet using widgets and add Plasma features seen elsewhere. Complete with tips for those who have never programmed before.

Plasma Programming with Web Technologies (HTML/JS/CSS etc)

Getting Started

Creating and running your first plasmoid in HTML

Theme development

Creating a Plasma Theme

Guide to creating your first Plasma theme

Resources

• Projects: Plasma
• Plasma api documentation
• Plasma Eclipse Integration
• The plasma-devel mailing list and #plasma on IRC (irc.freenode.org).