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.

Using DataEngines in Plasmoids

With a DataEngine, it is possible to retrieve data for display in a simple and standard way. This tutorial covers the topic of how to use DataEngines for this purpose in Plasmoids.

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.

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.

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 write a simple paste applet using widgets

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...)