Development/Tutorials/Plasma4

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 broken)

How to use extenders in your Plasmoid

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

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

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 write a simple paste applet using widgets

Creating a Plasma Widget in Ruby

Tutorial that shows how to create your first Plasma Applet using the Ruby language. Following these instructions precisely however leads to the error "Could not find requested component: plasma-ruby-web-applet" on OpenSUSE 11.1 KDE 4.2RC1.

Theme development

Creating a Plasma Theme

Guide to creating your first Plasma theme

Resources:

• http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma
• Plasma api documentation
• The plasma-devel mailing list and #plasma on IRC (irc.freenode.org).

TODO:

• tutorials for other languages (JavaScript, Ruby, etc...)