Development/Tutorials/Plasma

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

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...)